bug#43534: qemu-minimal-5.1.0 fails to build during test phase on aarch64

[Stefan]

Hi Maxim!

> Do you think this is a regression?  I doubt so, because even before
> pushing the update to 5.1.0, the test suite of qemu (not qemu-minimal)
> was failing on master.

I don’t know. Until today I always got a substitute. There was at least a 
successful build in late August.

http://ci.guix.gnu.org/search?query=system%3Aaarch64-linux+spec%3Aguix-master+qemu-minimal-5

> The error in the log you posted appear to be:
> 
> ERROR:tests/qtest/arm-cpu-features.c:508:test_query_cpu_model_expansion_kvm: 
> assertion failed: (resp_has_props(_resp))
> ERROR arm-cpu-features - Bail out! 
> ERROR:tests/qtest/arm-cpu-features.c:508:test_query_cpu_model_expansion_kvm: 
> assertion failed: (resp_has_props(_resp))

I only searched for “FAIL”. :-)

The same test was passing in August.

http://ci.guix.gnu.org/log/391wav2qcfd1wkss2ssv408zhbgcxhq7-qemu-minimal-5.0.0

MALLOC_PERTURB_=${MALLOC_PERTURB_:-$(( ${RANDOM:-0} % 255 + 1))}  
QTEST_QEMU_BINARY=arm-softmmu/qemu-system-arm QTEST_QEMU_IMG=qemu-img 
tests/qtest/arm-cpu-features -m=quick -k --tap < /dev/null | 
./scripts/tap-driver.pl --test-name="arm-cpu-features" 
PASS 1 arm-cpu-features /arm/arm/query-cpu-model-expansion
…
MALLOC_PERTURB_=${MALLOC_PERTURB_:-$(( ${RANDOM:-0} % 255 + 1))}  
QTEST_QEMU_BINARY=aarch64-softmmu/qemu-system-aarch64 QTEST_QEMU_IMG=qemu-img 
tests/qtest/arm-cpu-features -m=quick -k --tap < /dev/null | 
./scripts/tap-driver.pl --test-name="arm-cpu-features" 
PASS 1 arm-cpu-features /aarch64/arm/query-cpu-model-expansion
PASS 2 arm-cpu-features /aarch64/arm/kvm/query-cpu-model-expansion
PASS 3 arm-cpu-features /aarch64/arm/kvm/query-cpu-model-expansion/sve-off
PASS 4 arm-cpu-features /aarch64/arm/max/query-cpu-model-expansion/sve-max-vq-8
PASS 5 arm-cpu-features /aarch64/arm/max/query-cpu-model-expansion/sve-off


Bye

Stefan