Re: biosbits test failing on origin/master

[Ani Sinha <ani@anisinha.ca>]

On Tue, Nov 15, 2022 at 9:07 AM Ani Sinha <ani@anisinha.ca> wrote:
>
> On Tue, Nov 15, 2022 at 5:13 AM John Snow <jsnow@redhat.com> wrote:
> >
> > On Thu, Nov 10, 2022 at 11:22 PM Ani Sinha <ani@anisinha.ca> wrote:
> > >
> > > On Thu, Nov 10, 2022 at 11:37 PM John Snow <jsnow@redhat.com> wrote:
> > > >
> > > > Hiya, on today's origin/master
> > > > (2ccad61746ca7de5dd3e25146062264387e43bd4) I'm finding that "make
> > > > check-avocado" is failing on the new biosbits test on my local
> > > > development machine:
> > > >
> > > >  (001/193) tests/avocado/acpi-bits.py:AcpiBitsTest.test_acpi_smbios_bits:
> > > > FAIL: True is not false : The VM seems to have failed to shutdown in
> > > > time (83.65 s)
> > > >
> > > > Is this a known issue, or should I begin to investigate it?
> > >
> > > In my test environment it does pass.
> > >
> > > $ ./tests/venv/bin/avocado run -t acpi tests/avocado
> > > Fetching asset from
> > > tests/avocado/acpi-bits.py:AcpiBitsTest.test_acpi_smbios_bits
> > > JOB ID     : 35726df7d3c2e0f41847822620c78195ba45b9b9
> > > JOB LOG    : /home/anisinha/avocado/job-results/job-2022-11-11T09.42-35726df/job.log
> > >  (1/1) tests/avocado/acpi-bits.py:AcpiBitsTest.test_acpi_smbios_bits:
> > > PASS (57.57 s)
> > > RESULTS    : PASS 1 | ERROR 0 | FAIL 0 | SKIP 0 | WARN 0 | INTERRUPT 0
> > > | CANCEL 0
> > > JOB TIME   : 63.82 s
> > >
> > > However, I have seen that on certain slower test machines or when run
> > > within a virtual machine, the test can take longer to complete and 60
> > > secs may not always be enough. In those cases raising the maximum
> > > completion time to 90 secs helps. Perhaps you can try this and let me
> > > know if it helps:
> >
> > Hmm - I'm running on a fairly modern machine and not in a VM. Do you
> > have an invocation to share that exists outside of the avocado
> > machinery
>
> If you pass V=1 in the environment then it dumps the QEMU command line
> that was used to run the test. You also need to comment out the line
> > shutil.rmtree(self._workDir)
> in tearDown() so that the iso is not cleaned up.

Maybe I will send out this patch once we have figured out what is
going on with your environment:
https://gitlab.com/anisinha/qemu/-/commit/5e8c629fdecc7cb650e4acaad8a8fcc2b248434e

I ran the test on another box sitting in my office running centos7.9
and it passed as well.