Re: acceptance-system-fedora failures

[Philippe Mathieu-Daudé]

On 10/7/20 7:20 AM, Philippe Mathieu-Daudé wrote:
> On 10/7/20 1:07 AM, John Snow wrote:
>> I'm seeing this gitlab test fail quite often in my Python work; I don't
>> *think* this has anything to do with my patches, but maybe I need to try
>> and bisect this more aggressively.
>>
>> The very first hint of an error I see is on line 154:
>>
>> https://gitlab.com/jsnow/qemu/-/jobs/776334918#L154
>>
>> 22:05:36 ERROR|
>> 22:05:36 ERROR| Reproduced traceback from:
>> /builds/jsnow/qemu/build/tests/venv/lib64/python3.8/site-packages/avocado/core/test.py:753
>>
>> 22:05:36 ERROR| Traceback (most recent call last):
>> 22:05:36 ERROR|   File
>> "/builds/jsnow/qemu/build/tests/acceptance/avocado_qemu/__init__.py",
>> line 171, in setUp
>> 22:05:36 ERROR|     self.cancel("No QEMU binary defined or found in the
>> build tree")
> 
> Last year the Avocado developers said we could have a clearer
> log error report, but meanwhile this verbose output is better
> that not having anything ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
> 
>>
>> Is this a known problem?
> 
> "No QEMU binary defined or found in the build tree" is not a
> problem, it means a test is skipped because the qemu-system-$ARCH
> binary is not found. In your case this is because your job
> (acceptance-system-fedora) is based on build-system-fedora
> which only build the following targets:
> 
>     TARGETS: tricore-softmmu microblaze-softmmu mips-softmmu
>       xtensa-softmmu m68k-softmmu riscv32-softmmu ppc-softmmu
>       sparc64-softmmu
> 
> Now I don't understand what binary the EmptyCPUModel/Migration tests
> are expecting. Maybe these tests only work when a single target is
> built? IOW not expecting that the python code searching for a binary
> return multiple ones? -> Eduardo/Cleber.
> 
> w.r.t. the error in your build, I told Thomas about the
> test_ppc_mac99/day15/invaders.elf timeouting but he said this is
> not his area. Richard has been looking yesterday to see if it is
> a TCG regression, and said the test either finished/crashed raising
> SIGCHLD, but Avocado parent is still waiting for a timeout, so the
> children become zombie and the test hang.

Expected output:

Quiescing Open Firmware ...
Booting Linux via __start() @ 0x01000000 ...

But QEMU exits in replay_char_write_event_load():

Quiescing Open Firmware ...
qemu-system-ppc: Missing character write event in the replay log
$ echo $?
1

Latest events are CHECKPOINT CHECKPOINT INTERRUPT INTERRUPT INTERRUPT.

Replay file is ~22MiB. End of record using "system_powerdown + quit"
in HMP.


I guess we have 2 bugs:
- replay log
- avocado doesn't catch children exit(1)


Quick reproducer:

$ make qemu-system-ppc check-venv
$ tests/venv/bin/python -m \
  avocado --show=app,console,replay \
  run --job-timeout 300 -t machine:mac99 \
  tests/acceptance/replay_kernel.py

> 
> Not sure that helps :)
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Phil.
>