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

[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,

-- 
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