Re: tests/avocado/machine_s390_ccw_virtio: Fedora test failing

["Philippe Mathieu-Daudé" <philmd@linaro.org>]

On 16/11/22 11:58, Thomas Huth wrote:
> On 16/11/2022 11.23, Philippe Mathieu-Daudé wrote:
>> Cc'ing Jan/Cleber/Beraldo.
>>
>> On 16/11/22 10:43, Thomas Huth wrote:
>>> On 15/11/2022 12.13, Philippe Mathieu-Daudé wrote:
>>>> On 15/11/22 12:05, Thomas Huth wrote:
>>>>> On 15/11/2022 12.03, Philippe Mathieu-Daudé wrote:
>>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> As of v7.2.0-rc0 I am getting:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>   (101/198) 
>>>>>> tests/avocado/machine_s390_ccw_virtio.py:S390CCWVirtioMachine.test_s390x_fedora: FAIL (23.51 s)
>>>>>
>>>>> Is it 100% reproducible? ... the test is known to be a little bit 
>>>>> shaky, that's also why it is disabled in the gitlab CI.
>>>>
>>>> I am running it on my workstation, not GitLab.
>>>
>>> I just double-checked and for me, it's working fine an my laptop, 
>>> with both, rc0 and rc1.
>>>
>>>> 5/5 failures. I'll skip it locally (no need to send a patch) and we can
>>>> have a look after the release.
>>>
>>> If it is a real bug, we should fix it before the release. Could you 
>>> maybe bisect it, please?
>>>
>>> Also, what do you get when dumping the console? I.e.:
>>>
>>> ./tests/venv/bin/avocado --show=console run -t arch:s390x \
>>> tests/avocado/machine_s390_ccw_virtio.py:S390CCWVirtioMachine.test_s390x_fedora
>>
>> When running with the current (old) Avocado runner I get:
>>
>> Avocado crashed: TypeError: cannot pickle '_thread.RLock' object
>> Please include the traceback info and command line used on your bug 
>> report
>> Report bugs visiting 
>> https://github.com/avocado-framework/avocado/issues/new
>>
>> I can use the 'new' runner:
>>
>> $ TMPDIR=/tmp ./tests/venv/bin/avocado --show=app,console run 
>> --test-runner=nrunner -t arch:s390x 
> 
> Uh, don't do that. nrunner does not seem to be able to execute that test 
> yet. Or did you also upgrade your avocado to a newer installation? ... 
> in that case it sounds like you might have messed up your installation? 
> Maybe try again with a fresh and clean checkout of the QEMU repository / 
> a new build folder.

Well the current (old) runner doesn't work on Darwin ARM64:

   Avocado crashed: TypeError: cannot pickle '_thread.RLock' object

Using `TMPDIR=/tmp avocado --test-runner=nrunner` almost all other tests
pass. I'll wait for Cleber's nrunner update before re-testing/bisecting.