Python segfault in while running vdsm unittests - first aid

[Eyal Edri]

----- Original Message -----
> From: "Nir Soffer" <nsoffer at redhat.com>
> To: "infra" <infra at ovirt.org>
> Cc: "Dan Kenigsberg" <danken at redhat.com>, "Eyal Edri" <eedri at redhat.com>, "Francesco Romani" <fromani at redhat.com>,
> "Allon Mureinik" <amureini at redhat.com>
> Sent: Monday, June 9, 2014 2:44:37 PM
> Subject: Python segfault in while running vdsm unittests - first aid
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> I can confirm what Francesco found - the failure is easily reproduced (100%)
> when running make check with the NOSE_WITH_XUNIT=1, and when using latest
> nose version from git.
> 
> This issue make the failing CI job not only useless, but harmful, wasting
> everyone time.
> 
> I suggest to remove the NOSE_WITH_XNUNIT flag until nose is fixed.
> 

is there a bug open on nose, any newer version that has a fix for it?

> To be more specific - in the shell script running the tests:
> 
> 1. Disable xunit support
> 
>     # Nose 1.3.0 and later segatult with this flag
>     #export NOSE_WITH_XUNIT=1
> 
> 2. Remove the Publish JUNit test result report, looking for **/nosetests.xml
> 
> Better have working tests with bad jenkins integration, then broken tests.
> 
> I changed the configuration on jenkins and the builds are successful now :-)
> 

thanks!

> Nir
>