sequential/test-repl-persistent-history is failing on OS X

[evanlucas]

Path: sequential/test-repl-persistent-history
assert.js:89
  throw new assert.AssertionError({
  ^
AssertionError: '> \'=^.^=\'' === '> \'42\''
    at Writable.write [as _write] (/Users/evan/dev/code/forks/io.js/test/sequential/test-repl-persistent-history.js:173:16)
    at doWrite (_stream_writable.js:292:12)
    at writeOrBuffer (_stream_writable.js:278:5)
    at Writable.write (_stream_writable.js:207:11)
    at REPLServer._writeToOutput (readline.js:219:17)
    at REPLServer.Interface._refreshLine (readline.js:259:8)
    at REPLServer.Interface._historyPrev (readline.js:572:10)
    at REPLServer.Interface._ttyWrite (readline.js:858:14)
    at ActionStream.onkeypress (readline.js:105:10)
    at emitTwo (events.js:87:13)

I haven't tested it on any other OS for now.

[Fishrock123]

On the CI? If so, can you point me to a CI run?

I really need to update that test so it shows which set of tests actually failed the assertion...

[evanlucas]

Weird, it seems fine on the CI. I can't get it to pass locally though on OS X 10.10.4

[evanlucas]

It seems to pass locally for me about every 1 in 15 times

[Fishrock123]

@evanlucas what's your OS X version? Also, is this on master?

[evanlucas]

Yes. 10.10.4

[targos]

I just ran the test 5 times on the same OS X and got no error

[evanlucas]

very strange, I can hardly get it to pass

[thefourtheye]

Can you comment out that particular case and try?

[Fishrock123]

Can you comment out that particular case and try?

Ok so, the (other) problem here is that figuring out which case is having problems isn't necessarily easy. (I guess I should log some more info in the tests...?) :/

@evanlucas I think the problem is that the test isn't writing to the history file correctly?

Can you run it just as ./iojs --expose-internals test/sequential/test-repl-persistent-history.js and then post what is in test/tmp/.node_repl_history?

[jbergstroem]

Have a look at your permissions/ownership; perhaps you've previously run tests as another user? Does the sudo sandwich work? (sudo make test)

[evanlucas]

It will be this afternoon before I can test again on that machine. It works fine on my laptop. :/