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authorLudovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org>2019-05-15 12:14:58 +0200
committerLudovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org>2019-05-15 12:18:51 +0200
commit33572a36624aa1c5cca409cfee36eb67982f4891 (patch)
tree257b649d91630b5dc14cc5ed62b01c54d37f8349
parent8b310793d2b7d3cf5b3a5301423640dcf68e2528 (diff)
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tests: Skip unreliable "herd invalidate nscd" test.
* gnu/tests/base.scm (run-basic-test)["nscd invalidate action, wrong table"]: Skip unconditionally.
-rw-r--r--gnu/services/base.scm4
-rw-r--r--gnu/tests/base.scm3
2 files changed, 5 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/gnu/services/base.scm b/gnu/services/base.scm
index 015d873308..f709ca5519 100644
--- a/gnu/services/base.scm
+++ b/gnu/services/base.scm
@@ -1294,8 +1294,8 @@ the tty to run, among other things."
(lambda args
;; There's a race with the SIGCHLD handler, which could
;; call 'waitpid' before 'close-pipe' above does. If we
- ;; get ECHILD, that means we lost the race, but that's
- ;; fine.
+ ;; get ECHILD, that means we lost the race; in that case, we
+ ;; cannot tell what the exit code was (FIXME).
(or (= ECHILD (system-error-errno args))
(apply throw args)))))
(line
diff --git a/gnu/tests/base.scm b/gnu/tests/base.scm
index cf942fe5e1..247f237622 100644
--- a/gnu/tests/base.scm
+++ b/gnu/tests/base.scm
@@ -382,6 +382,9 @@ info --version")
result)
marionette))
+ ;; FIXME: The 'invalidate' action can't reliably obtain the exit
+ ;; code of 'nscd' so skip this test.
+ (test-skip 1)
(test-equal "nscd invalidate action, wrong table"
'(#f) ;one value, #f
(marionette-eval '(with-shepherd-action 'nscd ('invalidate "xyz")