Re: [sr #110351] Parallel autotest broken with bash 5.1.0(1)-rc1

[Chet Ramey]

On 10/30/20 5:40 PM, Zack Weinberg wrote:
> URL:
>   <https://savannah.gnu.org/support/?110351>
> 
>                  Summary: Parallel autotest broken with bash 5.1.0(1)-rc1
>                  Project: Autoconf
>             Submitted by: zackw
>             Submitted on: Fri 30 Oct 2020 09:40:22 PM UTC
>                 Category: None
>                 Priority: 5 - Normal
>                 Severity: 3 - Normal
>                   Status: None
>                  Privacy: Public
>              Assigned to: None
>         Originator Email: 
>              Open/Closed: Open
>          Discussion Lock: Any
>         Operating System: None
> 
>     _______________________________________________________
> 
> Details:
> 
> bash 5.1.0(1)-rc1, which is the version of bash in Debian unstable as of
> 2020-10-15, unpredictably prints strings of the form
> 
> TRACE: pid 411364: bgp_delete: deleting 432074
> 
> to the process's stderr while executing the "FIFO job dispatcher" that is part
> of autotest.  This causes several test failures in autoconf's own testsuite.

Those are debug messages that appear because this is not a release version
of bash. Once the release status trips to `release', they go away. You
don't need to bother doing anything, since it will fix itself.

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Chet Ramey, UTech, CWRU    chet@case.edu    http://tiswww.cwru.edu/~chet/