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Track guessed as N from the FAILING STEP — line 5 of 8, out=$(./compiler/pascal26 test/test_nilpy_qualified_name_error_names_the_receiver.npy /tmp/test_nilpy_qualrecv26 2>&1); , which names test/test_nilpy_qualified_name_error_names_the_receiver.npy. Not from the job's name or its src: those describe what the job is ABOUT, and this job's recipe spans 4 source file(s). The ranker reads frontmatter, so this line — not the body — decides who works it; correct it if the guess is wrong.

origin/master has advanced 7 commit(s) since this sha. Re-verify at current HEAD before acting — the callback is tagged to the sha that was tested, which may no longer be the state of the tree.

regression: test-nilpy#src:test/test_nilpy_attribute_off_a_virtual_call_result.npy at 7e4f69a34350 in step 5/8, out=$(./compiler/pascal26 test/test_nilpy_qualified_name_error_names_the_receiver.npy /tmp/test_nilpy_qualrecv26 2>&1);… (auto-filed by twatch)

Repro

tools/testmgr.py --tier full --job 'test-nilpy#src:test/test_nilpy_attribute_off_a_virtual_call_result.npy' at 7e4f69a343501a4b71ef7cfb5033e90fe5e4bcd5

Range

bad 7e4f69a34350, last good e1ba463ce0c1, 3 commit(s) in range — the watcher narrows this by idle bisect; check tstate/TSTATE.md for the current range.

Log tail

pascal26:36: error: this build would die at exec: `memcmp` is imported from libstrings.so, which no library on this machine answers to. That soname was not declared anywhere — the compiler derived it from the name of the header you imported (strings.h), and a header file name is not a library name. Name the library explicitly instead, with an `external '<soname>'` clause carrying the soname the loader wants.
(tail)
ok: /tmp/testmgr-scratch-2773303/test_nilpy_virtcall26  [code=1261336B  data=84472B  bss=55084B  procs=2020]
test_nilpy_qualified_name_error_names_the_receiver: FAIL - rc=1 (want 1, one error on line 14 naming the qualifier, no binary)
pascal26:36: error: this build would die at exec: `memcmp` is imported from libstrings.so, which no library on this machine answers to. That soname was not declared anywhere — the compiler derived it from the name of the header you imported (strings.h), and a header file name is not a library name. Name the library explicitly instead, with an `external '<soname>'` clause carrying the soname the loader wants.
  near: n      >>> static void bcopy

Stub ticket: signal only. Track T agent (face 2) enriches or a dev track takes it from the repro line.

Log

CENSUS 2026-09-19 (frankS) — does not reproduce; closed by events

Run through testmgr's own job runner, using this ticket's exact Repro line — the instrument that filed it, and the one auto-pin reads. Not through make, and not through a hand-run of the fixture:

tools/testmgr.py --tier full --job <this ticket's own literal job selector>
->  testmgr: GREEN, 1/1 pass

All 17 open NilPy regressions were run that way and all 17 came back GREEN.

The census carries a positive control drawn from the same population, because seventeen greens from an instrument nobody has shown can fail are not evidence. Same runner, same tier, on the xmlreader job — which is still built by the PINNED compiler and therefore still broken — the identical form returns:

expect_same: MISMATCH [lib_mimic_xmlreader.1]
--- expected
+++ actual
@@ -1 +1 @@
-25
+24

testmgr: RED

So GREEN here means the job passed, not that the runner is blind.

This does not say the report was never real. It was real at its filing sha; the tree has moved past it. Closed as NOT REPRODUCING, so it stops occupying a ranked slot and stops being dispatched to.

Why a whole pile went stale at once, which is the part worth keeping: these are auto-filed by the Track T watcher, and the watcher DOES retire them — 19 open tickets have a twin in done/ and every one of those twins carries the line auto-closed by the borg watcher. The defect is narrower than "nothing closes them": the auto-close WRITES the closed copy into done/ and does not remove the backlog/ original. The duplicate then keeps a real prio, so it goes on sorting alongside live work and a seat gets dispatched to a subject that has been passing for weeks — and progress.sh resolve refuses it as an ambiguous slug, which is how the pattern surfaced at all.