Re: iotest 260 failure (linux host): "OSError: AF_UNIX path too long"

[Peter Maydell]

On Thu, 17 Oct 2019 at 11:20, Max Reitz <address@hidden> wrote:
>
> On 17.10.19 12:04, Peter Maydell wrote:
> > On Thu, 17 Oct 2019 at 10:53, Max Reitz <address@hidden> wrote:
> >>
> >> On 17.10.19 11:51, Peter Maydell wrote:
> >>> I just got this iotest 260 failure processing an
> >>> unrelated merge on my x86-64 Ubuntu box. I assume
> >>> it's an intermittent (have just kicked off a retry) but
> >>> post the backtrace in case it's of interest:
> >>
> >> I hope it’s intermittent, although I presume it might not be.
> >
> > It has indeed failed again. Is there some way to get the
> > build to pick a shorter test directory name, or to get
> > 'make check' to skip the iotests, so I can proceed with
> > testing until that fix lands?
>
> Yes, you can set the $TEST_DIR environment variable to a shorter scratch
> path.

Thanks, that works. It turns out that it wasn't "an unrelated
merge", I was confused. It's a merge that adds iotest 260,
which is why I hadn't seen the failure before.

-- PMM