Re: tests/avocado/machine_s390_ccw_virtio: Fedora test failing

[Thomas Huth]

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.

 Thomas