[Chandler-dev] Ubuntu Gutsy 64-bit experimental build available

[Jonas Beckman]

Hi Andi!

In that case you will be interested to know that almost all functional 
tests pass as well. However, TestSwitchTimezone fails like this:

#
# An unexpected error has been detected by Java Runtime Environment:
#
#  SIGSEGV (0xb) at pc=0x000000000041a224, pid=8833, tid=47284893239008
#
# Java VM: OpenJDK 64-Bit Server VM (12.0-b01 mixed mode linux-amd64)
# Problematic frame:
# C  [python+0x1a224]  PySequence_Contains+0x4
#
# An error report file with more information is saved as:
# /home/jonas/chandler/hs_err_pid8833.log
#
# If you would like to submit a bug report, please visit:
#   http://java.sun.com/webapps/bugreport/crash.jsp
# The crash happened outside the Java Virtual Machine in native code.
# See problematic frame for where to report the bug.
#
***Error exit code=-6

Oh... and you probably already know that the Gnome screensaver should be 
turned off. But I missed that today and wondered why random tests 
started failing.

/Jonas

Andi Vajda wrote:
> 
> On Wed, 28 Nov 2007, Jonas Beckman wrote:
> 
>> I've been busy making a brand new Swedish translation. It's now complete
>> and I mailed it to Brian earlier, since I can't commit localizations yet.
>>
>> Anyway... your Ubuntu 64-bit version now passes all unit tests on a
>> virtual machine with two processors. Your suggestion idea that the
>> kernel had to be SMP-enabled to use multiple processors under VMWare was
>> correct.
>>
>> There is no need for a complete re-install. First, check "dmesg | grep
>> processor". That should show that only one processor is used and three
>> are unused. Shut down the VM and change the VM settings to use two
>> processors. Start up again and use the Synaptics packagemanager to
>> search for "Linux-image". Pick the generic image for x86-64, install (or
>> re-install) it and re-boot. That's it! "dmesg | grep processor" will now
>> show that two processors are used and two unused.
>>
>> You may have to turn off indexing to avoid freezing in the middle of
>> testing. The trackerd service is problematic (see this thread:
>> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/tracker/+bug/131983).
>>
>> Note that Fusion's virtual SMP lacks the hardware supported scheduling
>> that some of VMWare's server products has. It basically just
>> swaps memory from processor to processor now and then. But I still think
>> it's very nice to be able to test SMP this way at all.
> 
>  Hi Jonas,
> 
> Thank you very much for the info.
> I intend to try this shortly.
> 
> Andi..
>