Re: [qemu-upstream-unstable test] 20100: regressions - FAIL

[Anthony PERARD <anthony.perard@citrix.com>]

On Mon, Oct 07, 2013 at 05:19:33PM +0100, Ian Campbell wrote:
> On Mon, 2013-10-07 at 17:06 +0100, xen.org wrote:
> > flight 20100 qemu-upstream-unstable real [real]
> > http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~xensrcts/logs/20100/
> > 
> > Regressions :-(
> > 
> > Tests which did not succeed and are blocking,
> > including tests which could not be run:
> >  test-amd64-i386-qemuu-rhel6hvm-intel  4 xen-install       fail REGR. vs. 20054
> 
> http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~xensrcts/logs/20100/test-amd64-i386-qemuu-rhel6hvm-amd/4.ts-xen-install.log
>         2013-10-07 14:57:51 Z executing ssh ... root@10.80.249.56 	outcome=true
>         	for f in /usr/local/etc/* /usr/local/var/*; do
>         	    if test -e "$f"; then
>         	        case "$f" in
>         		/usr/local/etc/qemu)
>                             echo >&2 "*** WARNING IGNORING FORBIDDEN PATH: $f"
>                             ;;
>                         *)
>         		    echo >&2 "*** FORBIDDEN PATH IN USE, install problem: $f"
>         		    outcome=false
>                             ;;
>                         esac
>         	    fi
>         	done
>         	$outcome
>         
>         *** WARNING IGNORING FORBIDDEN PATH: /usr/local/etc/qemu
>         *** FORBIDDEN PATH IN USE, install problem: /usr/local/var/run
> 
> /var/run is the right path to be using IIRC.
> 
> I think this means we need to improve our call to qemu's configure
> script...

With a --disable-guest-agent ? :-) (which is not used under xen)
Or just a --localstatedir=/var. I've seen localstatedir used only once
in the QEMU build system, and it's only used when the guest agent is
enabled, and it's only used to create /var/run.

I suppose --localstatedir would be the best option here.

-- 
Anthony PERARD