Re: Test failure with current head

[Nick Dokos <ndokos@gmail.com>]

Rasmus <rasmus@gmx.us> writes:

> Nick Dokos <ndokos@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> Rasmus <rasmus@gmx.us> writes:
>>
>>> Nick Dokos <ndokos@gmail.com> writes:
>>>
>>>> I just updated to release_8.3beta-1286-g20795fd.
>>>>
>>>> ``make test'' shows a failure on test 226:
>>>>    FAILED  226/592  test-org-clock/clocktable-until-now
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> The backtrace was edited to get rid of a NUL that gnus complained
>>>
>>> I know.  I don't really understand what untilnow does and the org
>>> clocktable tests are really obscure to me.  Fell free to do a bisect
>>> master or/and submit a fix.
>>>
>>
>> Seems like a heisenbug - first attempt to bisect fingered
>> 20795fd1c4e48096226f3072de8d93bd99d761bf but only because it is the HEAD
>> and I had declared it as bad: it turns out that `make test' does not
>> get any failures now. And nothing changed - weird.
>
> I cannot reproduce the heisenbug.
>
> Maybe it depends on the system time.  Changing my clock (via gnome
> control center):
>
> - At 12:59 there's an error.
> - At 13:00 there is not.
>

I ran ``make test'' in a loop, 3 iterations per minute,
for about an hour - no (unexpected) failures. Whatever it is,
it's hiding.
-- 
Nick