[PATCH stable] tests: work around instability that caused test from 4999c12c526b to fail

[Pierre-Yves David]

On 10/28/2016 12:31 PM, Mads Kiilerich wrote:
> On 10/28/2016 10:35 AM, Pierre-Yves David wrote:
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>> On 10/18/2016 03:32 PM, Pierre-Yves David wrote:
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>>> On 10/18/2016 03:18 PM, Mads Kiilerich wrote:
>>>> On 10/18/2016 02:30 PM, Pierre-Yves David wrote:
>>>>>
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>>>>> On 10/18/2016 01:33 AM, Mads Kiilerich wrote:
>>>>>> # HG changeset patch
>>>>>> # User Mads Kiilerich <madski at unity3d.com>
>>>>>> # Date 1476746894 -7200
>>>>>> #      Tue Oct 18 01:28:14 2016 +0200
>>>>>> # Branch stable
>>>>>> # Node ID 548f82b480d086c7a551b025fb980cd70187c880
>>>>>> # Parent  328545c7d8a1044330b8a5bfbdd9c2ff08625d6a
>>>>>> tests: work around instability that caused test from 4999c12c526b to
>>>>>> fail
>>>>>
>>>>> I'm not too sure of what is going on here, Can you elaborate?
>>>>
>>>> I'm also not sure what is going on. I suddenly saw the new test I added
>>>> started to fail. Not in the actual test but in the setup code.
>>>> Apparently unrelated to other recent changes - the new test just
>>>> happened to expose it. Thus, I suggest this workaround for now.
>>>
>>> I would be more comfortable if we had a better idea of what is going one
>>> here. Can you have a deeper look?
>>
>> Any news on this?
>
> No. The patch still makes the setup part of my new test work reliably
> despite an apparent existing instability in the state left from the
> previous test. I haven't investigated further.

I think we want a bit more knowledge about the situation, I'm dropping 
this from patchwork.

Cheers,

-- 
Pierre-Yves David