Josh Steadmon <steadmon@xxxxxxxxxx> writes: > On 2024.09.27 00:07, Jeff King wrote: >> On Tue, Sep 24, 2024 at 07:33:08AM +0200, Patrick Steinhardt wrote: >> >> > +test_expect_success 'ref transaction: many concurrent writers' ' >> > + test_when_finished "rm -rf repo" && >> > + git init repo && >> > + ( >> > + cd repo && >> > + # Set a high timeout such that a busy CI machine will not abort >> > + # early. 10 seconds should hopefully be ample of time to make >> > + # this non-flaky. >> > + git config set reftable.lockTimeout 10000 && >> ... > > We're seeing repeated failures from this test case with ASan enabled. > Unfortunately, we've only been able to reproduce this on our > $DAYJOB-specific build system. I haven't been able to get it to fail > using just the upstream Makefile so far. I'll keep trying to find a way > to reproduce this. > > FWIW, we're not getting I/O errors, we see the following: > fatal: update_ref failed for ref 'refs/heads/branch-20': cannot lock references > > We tried increasing the timeout in the test to 2 minutes (up from 10s), > but it didn't fix the failures. Thanks for a report, and please keep digging ;-). Is your build, like Peff's, for Windows, or your variant of Linux? Thanks.
