[PATCH v2 1/4] test: Include /sbin to the PATH when creating ext4 disk image

Andy Shevchenko
2021-02-11T14:40:09Z

On some distributions the mkfs.ext4 is under /sbin and /sbin is not set
for mere users. Include /sbin to the PATH when creating ext4 disk image,
so that users won't get a scary traceback from Python.

Cc: Patrick Delaunay <patrick.delaunay@foss.st.com>
Signed-off-by: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com>
---
v2: used '/sbin' as is (Simon)
test/py/tests/test_env.py | 2 ++
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

diff --git a/test/py/tests/test_env.py b/test/py/tests/test_env.py
index 940279651da0..9bed2f48d77e 100644
--- a/test/py/tests/test_env.py
+++ b/test/py/tests/test_env.py
@@ -414,6 +414,8 @@ def mk_env_ext4(state_test_env):
if os.path.exists(persistent):
c.log.action('Disk image file ' + persistent + ' already exists')
else:
+ # Some distributions do not add /sbin to the default PATH, where mkfs.ext4 lives
+ os.environ["PATH"] += os.pathsep + '/sbin'
try:
u_boot_utils.run_and_log(c, 'dd if=/dev/zero of=%s bs=1M count=16' % persistent)
u_boot_utils.run_and_log(c, 'mkfs.ext4 %s' % persistent)
--
2.30.0