ntlm_auth autobuild failures on the Catalyst Cloud after XFILE

[Andrew Bartlett]

On Fri, 2017-01-06 at 10:01 +0100, Volker Lendecke wrote:
> 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,

To be clear, I specifically didn't request that.

Jeremy: Can you remind Bob (CCed) how you debugged the original issues
with the XFILE conversion?.  He should have some time next week to look
into this and those clues could be quite helpful.

Thanks,

Andrew Bartlett

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