Hi,

All the tests pass successfully on our standard

RHEL6 and RHEL7 machines at SLAC.

However, for Fedora 26 although all of the tests passed I see the following:

make -C ./test runtests  
make[3]: Entering directory '/usr/local/controls/epics/base/base-7.0.1-pre1/modules/database/test'
make -C ioc/db runtests  
make[4]: Entering directory '/usr/local/controls/epics/base/base-7.0.1-pre1/modules/database/test/ioc/db'
make -C O.linux-x86_64 -f ../Makefile TOP=../../../.. \
   T_A=linux-x86_64 runtests
make[5]: Entering directory '/usr/local/controls/epics/base/base-7.0.1-pre1/modules/database/test/ioc/db/O.linux-x86_64'
perl -CSD -MTest::Harness -e 'runtests @ARGV if @ARGV;' dbScanTest.t dbShutdownTest.t dbPutLinkTest.t dbLockTest.t dbStressTest.t testdbConvert.t callb
ackTest.t callbackParallelTest.t dbStateTest.t dbServerTest.t dbCaStatsTest.t dbCaLinkTest.t scanIoTest.t dbChannelTest.t dbChArrTest.t chfPluginTest.t
arrShorthandTest.t recGblCheckDeadbandTest.t testPutGetTest.t dbStaticTest.t
dbScanTest.t ............... ok
dbShutdownTest.t ........... ok
dbJLinkInit: lexical error: invalid char in json text.
                                 {"x":bbbb}
                    (right here) ------^

dbJLinkInit: parse error: premature EOF
                                      {"z":{"good":6}
                    (right here) ------^


dbPutLinkTest.t ............ ok
dbLockTest.t ............... ok
dbStressTest.t ............. ok
testdbConvert.t ............ ok
callbackTest.t ............. ok
callbackParallelTest.t ..... ok
dbStateTest.t .............. ok
dbRegisterServer: 'one' registered twice?
dbRegisterServer: Bad server name 'bad name'
dbRegisterServer: Ignoring 'disabled', per environment
dbUnregisterServer: Servers still active!
dbUnregisterServer: 'toolate' not registered.
dbUnregisterServer: 'no-routines' has no stop() method.
dbServerTest.t ............. ok
dbCaStatsTest.t ............ ok
dbCaLinkTest.t ............. ok
scanIoTest.t ............... ok
dbChannelTest.t ............ ok
Starting iocInit
iocRun: All initialization complete
dbChArrTest.t .............. ok
chfConfigParseStart: plugin pvt alloc failed
chfPluginTest.t ............ ok
arrShorthandTest.t ......... ok
recGblCheckDeadbandTest.t .. ok
testPutGetTest.t ........... ok
dbStaticTest.t ............. ok
All tests successful.
Files=20, Tests=2856, 79 wallclock secs ( 0.42 usr  0.04 sys + 15.66 cusr 10.94 csys = 27.06 CPU)

Cheers,