network/debinterfaces: failure in BridgeSuite.TestActivateEth0

[Roger Peppe]

As seen here: http://ci.jujucharms.com/job/github-merge-juju/192/console
It looks like the 1504010014 name is the difference.

[xenial] FAIL: activate_test.go:48: BridgeSuite.TestActivateEth0
[xenial]
[xenial] activate_test.go:73:
[xenial] c.Check(string(result.Stdout), gc.Equals, expected[1:])
[xenial] ... obtained string = "" +
[xenial] ... "write_backup testdata/TestInputSourceStanza/interfaces.backup-1504010014\n" +
[xenial] ... "write_content testdata/TestInputSourceStanza/interfaces.new\n" +
[xenial] ... "ifdown --interfaces=testdata/TestInputSourceStanza/interfaces eth0 eth1\n" +
[xenial] ... "sleep 10\n" +
[xenial] ... "cp testdata/TestInputSourceStanza/interfaces.new testdata/TestInputSourceStanza/interfaces\n" +
[xenial] ... "ifup --interfaces=testdata/TestInputSourceStanza/interfaces -a\n"
[xenial] ... expected string = "" +
[xenial] ... "write_backup testdata/TestInputSourceStanza/interfaces.backup-1504010015\n" +
[xenial] ... "write_content testdata/TestInputSourceStanza/interfaces.new\n" +
[xenial] ... "ifdown --interfaces=testdata/TestInputSourceStanza/interfaces eth0 eth1\n" +
[xenial] ... "sleep 10\n" +
[xenial] ... "cp testdata/TestInputSourceStanza/interfaces.new testdata/TestInputSourceStanza/interfaces\n" +
[xenial] ... "ifup --interfaces=testdata/TestInputSourceStanza/interfaces -a\n"

[John A Meinel (jameinel)]

Seems like a counter that got incremented 2x, we might have a race condition in the test setup.

[Witold Krecicki (wpk)]

https://github.com/juju/juju/pull/8146

[Anastasia (anastasia-macmood)]

PR above has been merged into code base since Nov 2017. So the fix has been released with 2.3.x.