Re: Help with lvm2 tests.

On 10/28/25 2:01 AM, Pierre Labastie ([email protected] via blfs-dev Mailing 
List) wrote:
> 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.

Having 26 out of 443 tests or a little over 5 percent is an unusually large number 
for us.  In my first build having only 1% passed is totally unacceptable.

I'm still thinking about how to reword the text about the tests.

   -- Bruce

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