Bug 469199

Summary:	systemtap testsuite regressions
Product:	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5	Reporter:	David Smith <dsmith>
Component:	systemtap	Assignee:	David Smith <dsmith>
Status:	CLOSED ERRATA	QA Contact:	BaseOS QE <qe-baseos-auto>
Severity:	medium	Docs Contact:
Priority:	medium
Version:	5.3	CC:	ebachalo, fche, mjw, pmuller, syeghiay
Target Milestone:	rc	Keywords:	Regression
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Description David Smith 2008-10-30 15:23:31 UTC

Description of problem:

During rhel5.3 beta testing, regressions were found in testing.  A few regressions aren't actual problems with systemtap, just with the systemtap testsuite.

For instance, the problems outlined by the following systemtap bugs:

- http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=6762 (Some syscalls functions just wrappers for other syscalls)

- http://sources.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=6562 ($SYSTEMTAP_DEBUGINFO_PATH does not work)

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):

Kernel Version: 2.6.18-118.el5
Related Package Version: systemtap-0.7.2-1.el5

How reproducible:

Every time

Steps to Reproduce:
  
1. Run systemtap-0.6.2-1.el5 testsuite
2. Run systemtap-0.7.2-1.el5 testsuite
3. Compare results

systemtap.base/debugpath.exp (PASS -> FAIL on all arches)
systemtap.syscalls/syscalls.exp will see additional failures on x86_64

Comment 1 Frank Ch. Eigler 2008-10-30 15:28:01 UTC

Setting "Regression" flag, though it's cosmetic.  Patches are ready for
backporting into rhel5.3.

Comment 2 RHEL Program Management 2008-10-30 15:49:29 UTC

This bugzilla has Keywords: Regression.  

Since no regressions are allowed between releases, 
it is also being proposed as a blocker for this release.  

Please resolve ASAP.

Comment 5 David Smith 2008-11-05 15:40:24 UTC

The following patches have been added to the spec file for this issue:

systemtap-0.7.2-syscall-testsuite-fixes.patch
systemtap-0.7.2-debugpath-testsuite-fixes.patch

Comment 10 errata-xmlrpc 2009-01-20 21:06:34 UTC

An advisory has been issued which should help the problem
described in this bug report. This report is therefore being
closed with a resolution of ERRATA. For more information
on therefore solution and/or where to find the updated files,
please follow the link below. You may reopen this bug report
if the solution does not work for you.

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHEA-2009-0184.html