Re: [xml] runtest mystery bug: name2.xml error case regression test

[Daniel Veillard <veillard redhat com>]

On Tue, Aug 07, 2012 at 12:57:33PM -0400, Daniel Richard G. wrote:
> I've encountered what appears to be a Heisenbug in runtest.
>
> Sometimes, when I run "make check", I see
[...]
> I believe I've found a way for others to reproduce the issue. The
> attached patch (against git master) disables all but the "Error
> cases regression tests" set of tests, and with this change, I get a
> consistent test failure:
>
> --------8<--------
> $ ./runtest
> ## Error cases regression tests
> Error for ./test/errors/name2.xml failed
> File ./test/errors/name2.xml generated an error
> Total 11 tests, 1 errors, 0 leaks
> -------->8--------
>
> I've been unable to track down what's going on, as it occurs deep
> inside the parser code and I'm not on strong footing there.
>
> Can anyone else reproduce this, using the patch?

  Really I tried again today to make sure, and even with an
out of tree build and your patch applied, it just work as expected
for me on Fedora 17 x86_64,

thinkpad:~/tmp/build -> ./runtest
## Error cases regression tests
Total 11 tests, no errors
thinkpad:~/tmp/build ->

  I can try 20 times it's always the same,

Daniel

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