The failure happens in both yakkity and xenial (because both use Qt 5.6). The failure moves around. In the latest build, we got a failure on xenial ppc64el (which is a first).
If we disable tests, we have to disable *all* integration tests that use DBus for *both* xenial and yakkety. We haven't seen a failure on vivid so far, and I don't expect that we will, seeing that vivid uses an earlier version of Qt. I'm uncomfortable about turning off tests wholesale like this though. In particular, we have a lurking time bomb here. Absolutely anything that uses QDBus with Qt 5.6 can blow up without warning. I'm fairly sure that this is a race condition that shows up mainly because the timings when we run on the build machines are different. So, we may end up with tons of seemingly random failures in the field for anything that uses QDBus, just because a machine is more heavily loaded than usual. Random segfaults are very hard to debug if they are not reproducible :-( Is there any chance of backing out of the Qt 5.6 upgrade? It doesn't look like that version is ready for prime time yet. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1613561 Title: [MIR] thumbnailer To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/thumbnailer/+bug/1613561/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs