If I can ask people to retest, especially GeoServer. Some of the COMPOUND geometry types were broken, cut&paste patch from a bug report was in error.
I have modified the tests to no longer count a connection failure as an error. The configuration file you need to modify is mentioned in the warning (incase you happen to have an oracle).
I will set it to try "localhost", 1521, GT by default, unless somebody has a better idea?
If everyone reports back as "happy" I will migrate the changes to trunk.
Jody