[Spice-devel] Test 'test-channel' failure on multiple platforms

[Frediano Ziglio]

> 
> Hello Spice devs,
> 
> I'm the project lead of Adélie Linux, a new Linux distro focused on
> portability and security.  We're trying to build Spice, and while I did
> note the warning in the configure script:
> 
> (configure: WARNING: spice-server on non-x86_64 architectures has not
> been extensively tested)
> 
> We are hoping to package Spice on all six architectures that we support.
> 
> On both the 32-bit and 64-bit PowerPC architectures, we are seeing the
> following failure (identical on both):
> 
> 
> ../../test-driver: line 107: 16896 Aborted                 "$@" >
> $log_file 2>&1
> FAIL: test-channel
> 
> 
> server/tests/test-suite.log contains:
> 
> 
> FAIL: test-channel
> ==================
> 
> /server/channel: main_channel_link: add main channel client
> **
> Spice:ERROR:test-channel.c:215:timer_wakeup: assertion failed (got_data
> > 0): (0 > 0)
> FAIL test-channel (exit status: 134)
> 
> 
> I'm not at all familiar with the Spice code base, and my attempts to
> poke around the code and see why such a failure would occur left me
> without any joy.  Is there possibly some endianness sensitivity in a
> part of the code that I might have overlooked?  That's the only idea I
> have had.
> 

Time ago I tested for endianess with a emulated mips and didn't remember
this issue.
The timeout is specified with a 100 ms which should be enough.
I think the easiest thing would be to enable full debugging or a
strace to see the behaviour of network read/write.

> Any assistance or documentation / code pointers (where to look) would be
> greatly appreciated.  Thanks!
> 
> Best,
> --arw
> 
> 

Frediano