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Bug 849202

Summary:	Fix races in glibc's intl/ testsuite
Product:	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5	Reporter:	Jeff Law <law>
Component:	glibc	Assignee:	Jeff Law <law>
Status:	CLOSED ERRATA	QA Contact:	qe-baseos-tools-bugs
Severity:	unspecified	Docs Contact:
Priority:	unspecified
Version:	5.9	CC:	fweimer, mfranc, syeghiay
Target Milestone:	rc
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Fixed In Version:	glibc-2.5-106	Doc Type:	Bug Fix
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Clones:	849203 (view as bug list)		Environment:
Last Closed:	2013-01-08 03:47:22 UTC	Type:	Bug
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Bug Blocks:	849203

Description Jeff Law 2012-08-17 17:14:19 UTC

Description of problem:
There are races in glibc's intl/* tests.  Those races can cause spurious failures in glibc's testsuite which waste engineering & QE's time to analyze.

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


How reproducible:
Run the glibc testsuite with -j<n> for n > 1 repeatedly and watch for failures in tst-gettext3, tst-gettext5 or tst-codeset

Steps to Reproduce:
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Actual results:
Occasionally one of the above-mentioned tests will fail for no apparent reason.

Expected results:
The tests should pass 100% of the time.

Additional info:
This is strictly a testsuite issue and fixing it is strictly to reduce the amount of wasted time for our engineering staff.  It does not affect the delivered code in any way shape or form.  Multiple approaches to fix the problem are in hand and waiting upstream approval.

Comment 1 RHEL Program Management 2012-08-17 17:18:20 UTC

This request was evaluated by Red Hat Product Management for inclusion
in a Red Hat Enterprise Linux release.  Product Management has
requested further review of this request by Red Hat Engineering, for
potential inclusion in a Red Hat Enterprise Linux release for currently
deployed products.  This request is not yet committed for inclusion in
a release.

Comment 2 Jeff Law 2012-08-17 20:50:46 UTC

    Technical note added. If any revisions are required, please edit the "Technical Notes" field
    accordingly. All revisions will be proofread by the Engineering Content Services team.
    
    New Contents:
No documentation needed

Comment 5 Jeff Law 2012-09-21 17:32:52 UTC

Suzanne, sorry, this should have been added to the errata some time ago.  Fixed.

Comment 7 errata-xmlrpc 2013-01-08 03:47:22 UTC

Since the problem described in this bug report should be
resolved in a recent advisory, it has been closed with a
resolution of ERRATA.

For information on the advisory, and where to find the updated
files, follow the link below.

If the solution does not work for you, open a new bug report.

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2013-0022.html