[OpenAFS] buildbot and packages

[Derrick Brashear]

So. Were you perchance using it on a Mac? Probably a 64 bit Intel mac?

http://gerrit.openafs.org/#change,8132

As nearly as I can tell, this is a very specific problem. The code is fine.=
 The
circumstances of building afsd.fuse meant it was collateral damage when we
started using roken, but only on MacOS, and probably only for non-32
bit pointers,
because MacOS does something odd with dirent.h

On Mon, Sep 17, 2012 at 1:20 PM, Derrick Brashear <shadow@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 17, 2012 at 1:15 PM, Troy Benjegerdes <hozer@hozed.org> wrote=
:
>> I'm looking to get all the low-hanging fruit with unskilled testing.
>> Particularly with regressions like this:
>>
>> hozer@six:~/src/openafs-fuse-git/tests/fuse$ /home/hozer/src/openafs-fus=
e-git/tests/fuse/../../src/afsd/afsd.fuse -dynroot -fakestat -d -confdir /h=
ome/hozer/src/openafs-fuse-git/tests/fuse/conf -cachedir /home/hozer/src/op=
enafs-fuse-git/tests/fuse/vcache -mountdir /home/hozer/src/openafs-fuse-git=
/tests/fuse/mntdir
>> FUSE library version: 2.8.6
>> nullpath_ok: 0
>> unique: 1, opcode: INIT (26), nodeid: 0, insize: 56
>> INIT: 7.17
>> flags=3D0x0000047b
>> max_readahead=3D0x00020000
>> Starting AFS cache scan...found 0 non-empty cache files (0%).
>> afsd: All AFS daemons started.
>> Segmentation fault
>>
>>
>> I am pretty sure this is related to the work Simon is doing on Libtool,
>> and there's a 90% probability it's a 30-second 'aha', followed by a two
>> line fix, and we're back to working again.
>>
>
> I'd bet not. However....
>
>> The code is so complicated it will take me half a day to track down what
>> that two line fix is, or work in my own isolated fork and not get update=
s
>> as quickly. That unskilled smoke testing and/or automated runs gets a LO=
T
>> of mileage.
>
> Not really. Build with debugging and get a real backtrace. That said,
> since fuse is not *required*
> functionality in a build, yes, it's undertested. This is why we've
> generally avoided code which doesn't
> always build. Or, at least tried to.
>
>> It also gives people who want to learn about the codebase something simp=
le
>> and meaningful they can do, instead of waiting around for someone else t=
o
>> come up with a test plan.
>
>>
>> On Mon, Sep 17, 2012 at 11:25:36AM -0500, David Boyes wrote:
>>> > How about an effort to get nightly builds of master available on as m=
any
>>> > platforms as possible, and getting thousands of bored college student=
s to
>>> > download, install, and test them?
>>>
>>> I think that's still overly optimistic. There's a lot of moving parts h=
ere; you just can't just install a package and have it do something useful.=
 You need to have a lot of surrounding infrastructure that involves real co=
ntrol of a fair amount of stuff that random college students won't have.  '=
make check' on a single machine will never give you useful testing results =
other than to find packaging or "smoke test" errors, which aren't all that =
helpful overall.
>>>
>>> > Wouldn't that massive crowsourced testing effort be worth the time of=
 a
>>> > single developer to make sure *some* sort of package, even if it's ha=
lf-
>>> > assed, gets distributed? I can't think of much of anything else that =
has a
>>> > bigger resource multiplation factor than a 'one click install', along=
 with some
>>> > defaults to use a 'test.openafs.org' cell.
>>>
>>> As others have commented, unskilled testing performed without a detaile=
d test plan on software systems this complex is probably less helpful than =
might otherwise appear. GIGO applies here. A uncoordinated test process is =
unlikely to produce anything useful in that there have to be a sequence of =
coordinated tests, replacing one component at a time in a known order. I ca=
n't see how crowdsourcing would help here.
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