[vtk-developers] Mysterious test failures...

[David Cole]

I ran expCos on krondor manually yesterday. Same result as reported on
dashboard. These are real, somehow... just don't understand the root cause
yet.


On 2/27/08, Bill Lorensen <bill.lorensen at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Dave,
>
> Try running the test manually on one of those machines. Maybe some
> message is not being captured by the test driver?
>
> Bill
>
> 2008/2/27 David Cole <david.cole at kitware.com>:
>
> > Last Friday, we started getting 78 tests failing on krondor and
> midworld,
> > two old Macs we have here at Kitware running OSX 10.3.
> >
> > Failing test list for krondor:
> >
> http://www.vtk.org/Testing/Sites/krondor.kitware/Darwin-c++-carbon/20080222-0300-Nightly/Test.html
> >
> > These are the files that were updated for this build:
> >
> http://www.vtk.org/Testing/Sites/krondor.kitware/Darwin-c++-carbon/20080222-0300-Nightly/Update.html
> >
> > For the life of me, I do not see which of these changes might have
> caused
> > these tests to start failing on that day....
> >
> >
> > For the test "expCos" (and many of the others have similar output) the
> > following output is emitted when a vtkRenderWindowInteractor is created:
> > ERROR: In /Users/kitware/Dashboards/My
> > Tests/VTK/Filtering/vtkDemandDrivenPipeline.cxx, line
> > 686
> > vtkStreamingDemandDrivenPipeline (0x2b05c60): Algorithm
> > vtkOutlineSource(0x2b05700) did not create output for port 0 when asked
> by
> > REQUEST_DATA_OBJECT and does not specify any DATA_TYPE_NAME.
> > (...same output repeated 6 more times...)
> > And then the test crashes on line 65 of Graphics/Testing/Cxx/expCos.cxx
> > because "input" is NULL...
> > Any clues why this might have started happening on this day? To the best
> of
> > my knowledge, nothing changed on the machines other than updating the
> source
> > tree every night...
> >
> >
> >
> > Thanks,
> > David Cole
> >
> >
> >
>
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