1707729 - 3 crash reporter test failures skipped on apple silicon

Status: NEW

(Toolkit :: Crash Reporting, task)

Description

[Joel Maher ( :jmaher ) (UTC -8)]

Last week we turned on tests for Apple Silicon (OSX 11.2.3 on new Apple based hardware). We are using the simplified new test config process:
https://firefox-source-docs.mozilla.org/testing/ci-configs/index.html

As the tests are live, we are now filing bugs to help close the loop and hope to fix any issues over the next 7 weeks. As the process outlines, there are tier-3 jobs running on m-c which run these skipped tests and will expect a failure/timeout/crash- if it doesn't fail, then the job will turn orange.

here are some failures in thumbnails:
toolkit/components/thumbnails/test/browser_thumbnails_bg_crash_during_capture.js
toolkit/components/thumbnails/test/browser_thumbnails_bg_crash_while_idle.js

and another failure in newtab:
browser/components/newtab/test/browser/abouthomecache/browser_process_crash.js

Comment 1

[Joel Maher ( :jmaher ) (UTC -8)]

:thecount, could you take a look at the 3 failing tests and determine if there is something we can do to get these working? As these are all crash related test cases, it is likely that these are related to the crashreporter not working as we would expect.

Comment 2

[Scott [:thecount] Downe]

Advice I got was that these might be more related to the crash reporter itself, and to try moving it to Toolkit :: Crash Reporting.