On 27/11/2019 09.50, Thomas Huth wrote: > On 25/11/2019 11.28, Alex Bennée wrote: >> >> Alex Bennée <alex.ben...@linaro.org> writes: >> >>> Thomas Huth <th...@redhat.com> writes: >>> >>>> Travis recently added build hosts for arm64, ppc64le and s390x, so >>>> this is a welcome addition to our Travis testing matrix. >>>> >>>> Unfortunately, the builds are running in quite restricted LXD >>>> containers >>>> there, for example it is not possible to create huge files there (even >>>> if they are just sparse), and certain system calls are blocked. So we >>>> have to change some tests first to stop them failing in such >>>> environments. >>> <snip> >>>> iotests: Skip test 060 if it is not possible to create large files >>>> iotests: Skip test 079 if it is not possible to create large files >>> >>> It seems like 161 is also failing: >>> >>> https://travis-ci.org/stsquad/qemu/jobs/615672478 >> >> And sometimes 249 > > These must be intermittent problems ... I've seen 161 failing once at > the very beginning of my tests, but then never again, so I assumed that > it was a quirk with the test system that got fixed later. Seems like > that was a wrong assumption. I've never seen 249 failing so far... I'll > try to do some more tests when I've got some spare time...
It's not intermittent, it's a problem with "dist: bionic". It seems to work fine with "dist: xenial", as far as I can tell. So I think we should simply stick with "dist: xenial" for the ppc64le builder unless someone has a ppc64le bionic system at hand for debugging. Thomas