Re: Help with lvm2 tests.

On Mon, 2025-10-27 at 20:09 -0500, Bruce Dubbs wrote:
> On 10/27/25 3:12 PM, Joe Locash ([email protected] via blfs-dev
> Mailing List) wrote:
> > On 10/27/25 3:36 PM, Bruce Dubbs ([email protected] via
> > blfs-dev Mailing 
> > List) wrote:
> > > I was trying to update to lvm2-LVM2.2.03.36 today but I got a lot
> > > of test errors 
> > > that I can't figure out:
> > > 
> > > # 443 tests: 6 passed, 236 skipped, 0 timed out, 0 warned, 201
> > > failed in 1:38.219
> > > 
> > > Can I get someone else to check this out please.
> > > 
> > >   -- Bruce
> > > 
> > > Here is an example of the output for one failure:
> 
> [snip]
> 
> > I see the same thing:
> 
> [snip]
> 
> > ### 443 tests: 6 passed, 239 skipped, 0 timed out, 0 warned, 198
> > failed  in  2:17.432
> 
> I make a little progress.  I thought I has all the appropriate kernel
> configuration 
> settings in place, but a review of the lvm2 page showed that I missed
> some.  I now have:
> 
> ### 443 tests: 155 passed, 247 skipped, 0 timed out, 1 warned, 40
> failed   in 13:52.880
> 
> And I loked some more and found that I didn't have all the mdadm
> kernel modules 
> built.  Adding those I now have:
> 
> ### 443 tests: 330 passed, 86 skipped, 0 timed out, 1 warned, 26
> failed   in 32:10.559
> 
> The tests also seem to want reiserfs and scsi_debug modules.  I
> looked at the 
> directory test/results and tried to look at the files there.  However
> there are 314K 
> lines spread out over 445 files.  Trying to find the 26 failed files
> is not obvious.
> 
> Overall I'm not sure how to address this in the book and am looking
> for ideas.

We already make some provision in the book:
"The tests do not implement the “expected fail” possibility, and a
small number of test failures is expected by upstream. More failures
may happen because some kernel options are missing."
I guess 26 failures out of 360 or so is acceptable in this context.

Pierre

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