Mysterious Heisenbug involving pdflatex on Koji's F-13 build servers

[Michel Alexandre Salim]

Rebuilding the same package without any change fixes the issue. Anyone
has any idea what's going on here?

Thanks,

[Pierre Carrier]

On Sun, Nov 14, 2010 at 21:23, Michel Alexandre Salim
 wrote:
> Rebuilding the same package without any change fixes the issue. Anyone
> has any idea what's going on here?

No idea, but you might be on the way to an hexadecimal dollar!

Regards,

[Michel Alexandre Salim]

On Mon, 15 Nov 2010 00:55:42 +0000, Pierre Carrier wrote:
> On Sun, Nov 14, 2010 at 21:23, Michel Alexandre Salim
>  wrote:
> > Rebuilding the same package without any change fixes the issue. Anyone
> > has any idea what's going on here?
>
> No idea, but you might be on the way to an hexadecimal dollar!

Well, it gets worse: on EL-6 the problem is actually reproducible (tried 
it twice already):

http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/taskinfo?taskID=2601915

Do I get my hexa dollar? :)

[Nikola Pajkovsky]

On Monday, November 15, 2010 04:06:40 pm Michel Alexandre Salim wrote:
> On Mon, 15 Nov 2010 00:55:42 +0000, Pierre Carrier wrote:
> > On Sun, Nov 14, 2010 at 21:23, Michel Alexandre Salim
> >
> >  wrote:
> > > Rebuilding the same package without any change fixes the issue. Anyone
> > > has any idea what's going on here?
> >
> > No idea, but you might be on the way to an hexadecimal dollar!
>
> Well, it gets worse: on EL-6 the problem is actually reproducible (tried
> it twice already):
>
> http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/taskinfo?taskID=2601915
>
> Do I get my hexa dollar? :)

+ ./run.sh
+ tee testlog.txt
RUNNING TEST 1...
0a1,269
> kpathsea: Running mktexfmt pdflatex.fmt
> fmtutil: running `pdftex -ini   -jobname=pdflatex -progname=pdflatex -

translate-file=cp227.tcx *pdflatex.ini' ...
...
...
...
> 181 for language 0
> No pages of output.
> Transcript written on pdflatex.log.
> fmtutil: /builddir/.texlive2007/texmf-var/web2c/pdftex/pdflatex.fmt

installed.
RUNNING TEST 2...
OK
RUNNING TEST 3...
OK
RUNNING TEST 4...
OK
RUNNING TEST 5...
OK
++ grep '^OK' testlog.txt
++ wc -l
+ '[' 4 == 5 ']'

Looks like *RUNNING TEST 1...* doesn't print OK.

[Michel Alexandre Salim]

On Mon, 15 Nov 2010 16:23:01 +0100, Nikola Pajkovsky wrote:
> ./run.sh
> tee testlog.txt
>
> RUNNING TEST 1...
> 0a1,269
> > kpathsea: Running mktexfmt pdflatex.fmt fmtutil: running `pdftex -ini  
> > -jobname=pdflatex -progname=pdflatex -
>
> translate-file=cp227.tcx *pdflatex.ini' ... ...
> ...
> ...
> > 181 for language 0
> > No pages of output.
> > Transcript written on pdflatex.log.
> > fmtutil: /builddir/.texlive2007/texmf-var/web2c/pdftex/pdflatex.fmt
>
> installed.
> RUNNING TEST 2...
> OK
> RUNNING TEST 3...
> OK
> RUNNING TEST 4...
> OK
> RUNNING TEST 5...
> OK
> ++ grep '^OK' testlog.txt
> ++ wc -l
> '[' 4 == 5 ']'
>
> Looks like *RUNNING TEST 1...* doesn't print OK. --
> Nikola

Well, I know that :). In any case, upstream has improved the tests in 
2.08 (prompted by my report that test #5 has a separate problem) and all 
tests now run fine.

What puzzled me is test #1 failed once on F-13 but not on a repeat build.

Regards,