failing tests in the testsuite on debian

[Jeremy Allison]

On Tue, Nov 15, 2022 at 06:12:44PM +0300, Michael Tokarev via samba-technical wrote:
>15.11.2022 16:35, Michael Tokarev via samba-technical wrote:
>...
>>In particular, one can't re-run tests, because on subsequent runs, even
>>if you `rm -rf st' in-between, the result will be different, and different
>>tests will fail and the ones failed before will succeed
>
>I figured this part out. It was my environment which was buggy. It turned
>out I tried to run stuff in a separate pid namespace without a proper
>process reaper, so zombies from the exited daemons weren't cleaned up
>properly and certain resources had become busy and was never freed
>before this namespace termination.  It was nothing to do with the
>samba testsuite.

Yeah, that'd do it :-).

I just did:

rm -rf st
make test TESTS=samba3.rpc.schannel_anon_setpw
rm -rf st
make test TESTS=samba3.rpc.schannel_anon_setpw

and it passed as expected.

>Certain tests do continue to fail though, and I still don't see how
>to address this.

Which tests. Specific tests sometimes are expected
to fail.