ntlm_auth autobuild failures on the Catalyst Cloud after XFILE

[Volker Lendecke]

On Fri, Jan 06, 2017 at 09:33:50PM +1300, Andrew Bartlett wrote:
> (resend from correct account)
> 
> I'm sorry to add to this debate around flapping tests, but at the same
> time I don't want to miss out a possibly important data point.
> 
> Since around the time of the XFILE -> FILE conversion (13 Dec), the
> builds that my team at Catalyst have been doing on the Catalyst cloud
> have been failing with the attached.  (We also see the ctdb errors that
> martin has been fixing).
> 
> These builds are on Ubuntu 14.04 x86_64, so I'm surprised that it works
> on the sn-devel host, but as we know our test suite is a fickle thing. 
> 
> Attached is the output from autobuild.  
> 
> (If it doesn't reproduce locally, then access to such cloud hosts can
> be arranged for team members.)
> 
> Any assistance understanding what is going on would be most valued. 
> 
> Perhaps it is a semantics difference around (flushing) FILE buffers?

Another set of reverts coming in. I'll work on that. 

Apologies,

Volker