[PKG-Openstack-devel] Bug#835177: aodh: FTBFS with eatmydata (build hangs)

[Santiago Vila]

On Mon, 10 Oct 2016, Thomas Goirand wrote:

> I have uploaded what I believe is a fix for #835177. Though as I am not
> sure how to reproduce your build env, it'd be really nice if you could
> try to build aodh 3.0.0-2 and check that the bug is really closed.
> 
> If that is the case (that my change fixes the FTBFS of aodh in your
> env), then I will apply the same kind of fix for #835178 and #835179.

Ok, triggered builds for aodh in sid (with and without eatmydata).

Will let you know about the results in a few hours...

In either case, please note that my build environment is not special
at all. For this bug report, it's just sbuild + eatmydata, on a single
CPU virtual machine, and that's all.

To use sbuild + eatmydata, you just need a file
/etc/schroot/chroot.d/stretch like this:

[stretch]
type=directory
description=Debian stretch
directory=/chroot/stretch
groups=sbuild
root-groups=sbuild
preserve-environment=true
command-prefix=eatmydata

(To prevent a chichen-and-egg problem, eatmydata has to be installed
before you can use the last line saying command-prefix...)

In my experience, when eatmydata is to blame for a build failure, it
usually fails always (i.e. this is not one of those difficult random
build failures).

Thanks.