Re: biosbits test failing on origin/master

[John Snow <jsnow@redhat.com>]

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 where I could test this individually and see how long it
might take to complete if I just let it run? I am worried that it's
getting wedged instead of just taking a long time, but it's hard to
tell.

--js

>
> diff --git a/tests/avocado/acpi-bits.py b/tests/avocado/acpi-bits.py
> index 8745a58a76..b11fe39350 100644
> --- a/tests/avocado/acpi-bits.py
> +++ b/tests/avocado/acpi-bits.py
> @@ -385,8 +385,9 @@ def test_acpi_smbios_bits(self):
>          self._vm.launch()
>          # biosbits has been configured to run all the specified test suites
>          # in batch mode and then automatically initiate a vm shutdown.
> -        # sleep for maximum of one minute
> -        max_sleep_time = time.monotonic() + 60
> +        # sleep for a maximum of one and half minutes to accommodate
> running this
> +        # even on slower machines.
> +        max_sleep_time = time.monotonic() + 90
>          while self._vm.is_running() and time.monotonic() < max_sleep_time:
>              time.sleep(1)
>