F40 CI Failures on Previously Passing Code - 23.11 branch

[Aaron Conole]

Patrick Robb <patrickrobb1997 at gmail.com> writes:

> Just spitballing but if the team built a new F40 DPDK image from the
> template engine, there might be a difference because a newer base
> image of F40 or newer versions of dependencies were baked in (for any
> which are not version tagged).
>
> Another thought - if F40 is EOL it might make sense to disable it in
> CI and for Shani and the community to disregard this failing test. It
> does make sense to enable the newer versions of fedora though.

+1 to just disabling older fedora releases - F40 is EOL

> I had a PR for enabling new fedora versions up when I was at UNH but
> it was blocked because DPDK did not build on the newest fedora (this
> is a pretty common occurrence for DPDK when bleeding edge fedora
> versions come out) but most likely this is no longer an issue. If the
> new fedora still wont build DPDK, that can be ticketed on Bugzilla and
> someone in DPDK will figure it out. Sorry for leaving this as an open
> item on my way out of UNH - I probably could have touched base with
> the team better about this PR.

+1 to this plan.

>> On May 4, 2026, at 8:34 AM, Lincoln Lavoie <lylavoie at iol.unh.edu> wrote:
>> 
>> Hi Shani,
>> 
>> I've asked the team to look into it.  I know they had just done some
>> work with the Fedora systems, to get the latest releases enabled and
>> drop the versions that are EOL (that also includes Fedora 40, that
>> went end of life in May of 2025).
>> 
>> Cheers,
>> Lincoln
>> 
>>> On Mon, May 4, 2026 at 4:33 AM Shani Peretz <shperetz at nvidia.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>> Hey,
>>> 
>>> I’m seeing on F40 CI failures on code that previously passed.
>>> 
>>> This reproduces on both the 23.11 and 23.11-staging branches. For
>>> example, on 23.11, tarball 37012 passed while 37022 failed, even
>>> though they contain the same code.
>>> 
>>> Re-testing older commits that previously passed now fails with the
>>> same errors.
>>> 
>>> Were there any recent updates on the F40 CI side?
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> Thanks a lot for your help,
>>> Shani
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> https://lab.dpdk.org/results/dashboard/periodic_testing/?branch_id=20&page=0&rerun_status=None
>> 
>> 
>> 
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