Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 172881
mysql fails regression tests when building as root
Last modified: 2013-07-02 23:07:34 EDT
Description of problem: While rebuilding latest mysql package, I get the following error message: [...] rpl_innodb [ pass ] rpl_insert_id [ pass ] rpl_insert_ignore [ pass ] rpl_insert_select [ pass ] rpl_loaddata [ pass ] rpl_loaddata_rule_m [ pass ] rpl_loaddata_rule_s [ pass ] rpl_loaddatalocal [ pass ] rpl_log [ pass ] rpl_log_pos [ pass ] rpl_many_optimize [ pass ] rpl_master_pos_wait [ pass ] rpl_max_relay_size [ pass ] rpl_misc_functions [ pass ] rpl_multi_delete [ pass ] rpl_multi_delete2 [ pass ] rpl_multi_query [ pass ] rpl_multi_update [ pass ] rpl_multi_update2 [ pass ] rpl_multi_update3 [ pass ] rpl_mystery22 [ pass ] rpl_openssl [ skipped ] rpl_optimize [ pass ] rpl_ps [ pass ] rpl_redirect [ pass ] rpl_relayrotate [ disabled ] Unstable test case, bug#12429 rpl_relayspace [ pass ] rpl_replicate_do [ pass ] rpl_reset_slave [ pass ] rpl_rewrite_db [ pass ] rpl_rotate_logs [ fail ] Errors are (from /usr/src/redhat/BUILD/mysql-5.0.15/mysql-test/var/log/ mysqltest-time) : mysqltest: At line 28: query 'start slave' failed with wrong errno 1201 instead of 1105... (the last lines may be the most important ones) Aborting: rpl_rotate_logs failed in default mode. To continue, re-run with '-- force'. Ending Tests Shutting-down MySQL daemon Master shutdown finished Slave shutdown finished make: *** [test] Error 1 Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): mysql-5.0.15-2 How reproducible: Everytime, try to rebuild. Actual results: No rebuilding. Expected results: Rebuilding.
I built mysql 5.0 quite a few times in process of creating the package, and I never saw that happen, so "everytime" is an overstatement. Is there anything unusual about your build environment? Can you dig down and determine *why* the message is appearing? (Just looking at the test script, it seems to be an issue of permissions on a test file, so relevant variables include what sort of filesystem you are running the tests in and whether SELinux is enabled.)
Sorry Tom, for me it was everytime the case ;-) I've running the ext3 filesystem and latest SELinux targeted policy enforced, but I didn't find any avc denied in syslogs.
Hmph. I tried running the build under SELinux enforcement mode, and didn't see a failure ... and I am running ext3. So it's quite unclear what's going on here. Can you think of any other reasons why your system would be different from mine?
I just had a thought: maybe the problem is not too little file permissions, but too much. Are you running the rpmbuild as root? If so, does it work if you run as non-root?
Yes, I'm running rpmbuild as root. And yes, it works for me as non-root user...
Yup, I just reproduced the failure building as root. Evidently the issue is that the test script is expecting to see a file permissions failure when it tries to read the config file, and it doesn't get one if the test is running as root. I'm inclined to classify this as "not a bug", or at least "wontfix". We generally don't build RPMs as root within Red Hat, and I have other packages that fail to build as root for reasons much harder to work-around than this. The upstream MySQL developers obviously don't run their regression tests as root either ...
Closing as WONTFIX per above comment; also, adjust summary line to describe the real issue.