failing tests

[Scott James Remnant]

On Thu, 2010-06-10 at 18:01 +0200, Marc Weber wrote:

> For some time pre-stop jobs are no longer run.
> I enabled the testsuite (make tests) and got these failures for both:
> version 0.6.6 and 0.6.5:
> 
You mean "make check" ;-)

> FAIL: test_job_class
> FAIL: test_job_process
> FAIL: test_job
> FAIL: test_event
> FAIL: test_conf
> 
You should investigate why these tests are failing.  Any test failure is
a serious bug.

> Using the following test script job I notice that the pre-stop script is
> not run. I couldn't find anyting in the man pages or the Changelog
> indicating that it's gone. Is it only NixOS which has this issue?

Maybe NixOS has patched Upstart?

> My questions:
> a) are those test failures serious?
> 
Yes

> b) do think they could be related to the pre-stop problem?
> 
Entirely possibly

> c) Should I try to fix pre-stop or should I rewrite the jobs so that
>    they don't use it?
> 
You should fix pre-stop

> Does it make sense to try older versions than 0.6.5 ?
> 
Shouldn't do, 0.6.6 is the current version

Scott
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