Failing tests

[Lorenzo Salvadore]

On Tuesday 18 June 2019 16:04, Alan Somers <asomers at freebsd.org> wrote:

> On Tue, Jun 18, 2019 at 4:46 AM Lorenzo Salvadore via freebsd-stable
> freebsd-stable at freebsd.org wrote:
>
> > Hello.
> > I run 12.0-STABLE r349104 and I tried to run the tests suit in /usr/tests.
> > I got plenty of tests failing.
> > Here is the output of "kyua report": http://termbin.com/r3tid
> > I guess this information could also be helpful:
> >
> > -   the custom kernel I am running: http://termbin.com/73cw2
> > -   my make.conf: http://termbin.com/wixu
> > -   my src.conf: http://termbin.com/8787
> >
> > I guess someone could be surprised that I define MACHINE_CPU in my
> > make.conf. I do not think it has anything to do with the tests, but if
> > someone needs to know why I do that, I wrote a wiki article about it:
> > https://wiki.freebsd.org/LorenzoSalvadore/CPUTYPE
> > Let me know if I can help by giving more information.
> > Thanks.
> > Lorenzo Salvadore.
>
> Looks like you found some tests that weren't properly feature gated.
> The sys/aio test failures, for example, happened because your kernel
> doesn't include md(4). The sys/audit tests failed because your kernel
> doesn't include audit(4) etc. All tests are supposed to check that
> their required features are present, but you found some that didn't.
> If you want to help, you can try repeating your experiment using the
> MINIMAL kernel, which should have most of the same failures. Then
> open a PR and assign to freebsd-testing.

I will be glad to do as you suggested.

Thanks for your answer.

Lorenzo Salvadore.