#1148857 gnote: FTBFS on ppc64el: gnote_unit_tests killed by SIGABRT (not reproducible locally)

Package:
gnote
Source:
gnote
Description:
desktop note taking program using Wiki style links
Submitter:
Trupti
Date:
2026-09-24 09:25:02 UTC
Severity:
normal
Tags:
#1148857#5
Date:
2026-09-24 08:54:18 UTC
From:
To:
Dear Maintainer,

Your package gnote 51~beta-2 failed to build on ppc64el on the buildd
with below build log:

https://buildd.debian.org/status/fetch.php?pkg=gnote&arch=ppc64el&ver=51%7Ebeta-2&stamp=1790190921&raw=0

The test gnote:gnote_unit_tests was killed by SIGABRT. The last
line of the log is:


4/4 gnote:gnote_unit_tests FAIL            0.15s   killed by signal 6
SIGABRT
――――――――――――――――――――――――――――――――――――― ✀
―――――――――――――――――――――――――――――――――――――
stderr:

** (process:1070): WARNING **: 20:15:19.389: Can't set the global locale
to the user's preferred locale.
    locale::facet::_S_create_c_locale name not valid
    The environment variable LANG may be wrong.

file:///tmp/gnotetestnotes81T1V3/manifest.xml:1: parser error : Start
tag expected, '<' not found
=====
^
file:///tmp/gnotetestnotes74S1V3/manifest.xml:1: parser error : Start
tag expected, '<' not found
=====
^
Entity: line 1: parser error : Premature end of data in tag sync line 1
d00cae25f3" rev="2"/>  <note id="1006a78a-6e61-4492-b5cc-a42f62d0a9ef"
rev="0"/>

       ^
(70366686865344) ERROR: error_handler - XML error: Document is empty

*** longjmp causes uninitialized stack frame ***: terminated


I could not reproduce the failure locally on ppc64el:
A clean sbuild of gnote 51~beta-2 in a sid ppc64el chroot succeeded,
including the test suite.

Since the failure does not reproduce, it may be intermittent or caused
by a build-dependency difference on that buildd at that time.
Could you request a give-back on ppc64el to see whether it recurs? If it
does, I can help collect a backtrace.


Thanks,
Trupti