KDE Gear projects with failing CI (master + stable) (29 October 2025)

[Alexander Semke]

On 02/11/25 18:49, Ben Cooksley wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 3, 2025 at 5:13 AM Alexander Semke 
> <alexander.semke at web.de> wrote:
>
>     On 29/10/25 18:01, Ben Cooksley wrote:
>
>     > On Thu, Oct 30, 2025 at 4:08 AM Albert Astals Cid
>     <aacid at kde.org> wrote:
>     >
>     >     Please work on fixing them, otherwise i will remove the
>     failing CI
>     >     jobs on
>     >     their 4th failing week, it is very important that CI is passing
>     >     for multiple
>     >     reasons.
>     >
>     >     Very bad news: kontact Craft Windows job had to be removed
>     >
>     >     Good news: 4 repo fixed
>     >
>     >     Bad news: 3 repo started failing, 3 repo still failing
>     >
>     >
>     >     dolphin (stable) - LAST WEEK BEFORE REMOVAL
>     >      * https://invent.kde.org/system/dolphin/-/pipelines/1072579
>     >       * dolphinmainwindowtest fails in suse_tumbleweed_qt610
>     >
>     >
>     >     cantor - LAST WEEK BEFORE REMOVAL
>     >      * https://invent.kde.org/education/cantor/-/pipelines/1070604
>     >      * https://invent.kde.org/education/cantor/-/pipelines/1058212
>     >       * testmaxima errors are back
>     >
>     >
>     > I've triggered a rebuild of the SUSE images to try to pull
>     through an
>     > updated Maxima installation.
>     > This isn't the fault of Cantor but rather a broken Maxima
>     installation.
>
>     This seems to be a different issue, one single maxima test is
>     failing. I
>     cannot reproduce it locally, it looks like the behavior on CI is
>     different. Any recent changes on CI related to the redirects of the
>     standard streams?
>
>
> The breakage happened around the time we updated the CI image, so 
> anything is possible.
>
> I'd find it pretty strange for shell behaviour to be breaking one of 
> our applications though?

I finally got to this problem. it was a "breaking change" in Maxima 
v5.48,  fixed now in 
https://invent.kde.org/education/cantor/-/merge_requests/135.


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Alexander