bug#9658: 1 of 698 tests failed

[Stefano Lattarini]

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On Wednesday 05 October 2011, Thomas M wrote:
> - gpg control packet
> Stefano,
> 
> I ran the test you suggested twice and it failed both time.  I'll
> attach both logs to this message.
>
(JFTR: they were basically the same as the original log).

> I suspect however that the problem
> is due to low memory.  I'm running an old junker of a computer that
> has only 256mb of pc133 ram and if I were not running Slackware I
> doubt I could run it at all.
>
But good to know tha automake runs on it decently :-)

> This was the memory situation at the time I ran the tests:
> address@hidden:~/automake-1.11.1/tests$ free
>                        total      used    free  shared  buffers   cached
> Mem:                   249500    243536   5964       0    12372   59464
> -/+ buffers/cache:     171700     77800
> Swap:                  522104    234252   287852
> address@hidden:~/automake-1.11.1/tests$
> 
You could try the following to verify that the problem is really due to
the limits of your machine:

 $ cd /home/jreb/automake-1.11.1/tests/lzma.dir
 $ ls -l lzma-1.0 # Just to be sure this directory is really there.
 $ tar chof foo.tar lzma-1.0 # Should succeed.
 $ lzma -9 foo.tar # Should fail with an error "Cannot allocate memory".

> Thanks for your assistance,
>
> Thomas M. Jett
> 

Thanks,
  Stefano