Re: [OE-core] [PATCH 1/2] oeqa/runtime/ptest: Use a timeout with command, remove disabling

["Mathieu Dubois-Briand" <mathieu.dubois-briand@bootlin.com>]

On Wed Mar 4, 2026 at 7:41 PM CET, Richard Purdie via lists.openembedded.org wrote:
> A simple 'which' call doesn't need the timeout disabling. This was likely
> a copy and paste error and can be removed.
>
> Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>
> ---
>  meta/lib/oeqa/runtime/cases/ptest.py | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/meta/lib/oeqa/runtime/cases/ptest.py b/meta/lib/oeqa/runtime/cases/ptest.py
> index 1a0782374d0..2887e136719 100644
> --- a/meta/lib/oeqa/runtime/cases/ptest.py
> +++ b/meta/lib/oeqa/runtime/cases/ptest.py
> @@ -35,7 +35,7 @@ class PtestRunnerTest(OERuntimeTestCase):
>          self.do_ptestrunner()
>  
>      def do_ptestrunner(self):
> -        status, output = self.target.run('which ptest-runner', 0)
> +        status, output = self.target.run('which ptest-runner')
>          if status != 0:
>              self.skipTest("No -ptest packages are installed in the image")
>  

Hi Richard,

I believe this is causing some ptest failures on riscv64:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/srv/pokybuild/yocto-worker/qemuriscv64-ptest/build/layers/openembedded-core/meta/lib/oeqa/core/decorator/__init__.py", line 35, in wrapped_f
    return func(*args, **kwargs)
           ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "/srv/pokybuild/yocto-worker/qemuriscv64-ptest/build/layers/openembedded-core/meta/lib/oeqa/core/decorator/__init__.py", line 35, in wrapped_f
    return func(*args, **kwargs)
           ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "/srv/pokybuild/yocto-worker/qemuriscv64-ptest/build/layers/openembedded-core/meta/lib/oeqa/core/decorator/__init__.py", line 35, in wrapped_f
    return func(*args, **kwargs)
           ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "/srv/pokybuild/yocto-worker/qemuriscv64-ptest/build/layers/openembedded-core/meta/lib/oeqa/runtime/cases/ptest.py", line 27, in test_ptestrunner_expectfail
    self.do_ptestrunner()
  File "/srv/pokybuild/yocto-worker/qemuriscv64-ptest/build/layers/openembedded-core/meta/lib/oeqa/runtime/cases/ptest.py", line 63, in do_ptestrunner
    status, output = self.target.run('ptest-runner -t {} -d \"{}\"'.format(ptest_timeout, ' '.join(ptest_dirs)), timeout=int(ptest_timeout)+30)
                     ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "/srv/pokybuild/yocto-worker/qemuriscv64-ptest/build/layers/openembedded-core/meta/lib/oeqa/core/target/ssh.py", line 98, in run
    status, output = self._run(sshCmd, processTimeout, ignore_status, raw, ignore_ssh_fails)
                     ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "/srv/pokybuild/yocto-worker/qemuriscv64-ptest/build/layers/openembedded-core/meta/lib/oeqa/core/target/ssh.py", line 70, in _run
    raise AssertionError("ssh exited with status '255' for command "
AssertionError: ssh exited with status '255' for command '['ssh', '-l', 'root', '-o', 'ServerAliveCountMax=2', '-o', 'ServerAliveInterval=30', '-o', 'UserKnownHostsFile=/dev/null', '-o', 'StrictHostKeyChecking=no', '-o', 'LogLevel=ERROR', '192.168.7.14', 'export PATH=/usr/sbin:/sbin:/usr/bin:/bin; ptest-runner -t 450 -d "/usr/lib"']': this is likely an SSH failure

Process killed - no output for 480 seconds. Total running time: 485 seconds.

Cannot run ptests without @expectedFailure as ptests are expected to fail
WARNING: core-image-ptest-dpkg-1.0-r0 do_testimage: Can not retrieve artifacts from test target: Error while fetching compressed artifacts

And similar errors:

WARNING: core-image-ptest-coreutils-1.0-r0 do_testimage: Can not retrieve artifacts from test target: Error while fetching compressed artifacts
Cannot run ptests without @expectedFailure as ptests are expected to fail

WARNING: core-image-ptest-gettext-1.0-r0 do_testimage: Can not retrieve artifacts from test target: Error while fetching compressed artifacts
Cannot run ptests without @expectedFailure as ptests are expected to fail

https://autobuilder.yoctoproject.org/valkyrie/#/builders/56/builds/1182

Thanks,
Mathieu

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Mathieu Dubois-Briand, Bootlin
Embedded Linux and Kernel engineering
https://bootlin.com