Hi folks! Another note for anyone paying attention to openQA test results. Since 2017-08-09 there's been kind of a flood of failures caused by 'typing errors' - that is, when the test runner is trying to type a string into the test VM and it doesn't get through correctly (usually due to one or more keypresses being dropped). We've always seen this kind of failure *very occasionally* in openQA tests, but it suddenly become massively more common (as in, half the tests for every update were failing).
With some invaluable help from Cole Robinson I'm pretty sure we have this figured out now; it was caused by a change to qemu which was introduced to address a potential denial-of-service issue. For now I've reverted qemu to the known good older version on the openQA worker hosts (there isn't any realistic vector for anyone to cause any harm by exploiting that DoS in the case of the openQA deployment, or any of the other similar issues the updated qemu fixed), and we've identified some later upstream commits that look like they may well resolve the problem, so we should hopefully be able to put a more permanent fix in place soon. I'll be re-running all the tests that have run since 2017-08-09 with a working qemu, so we have more accurate results. Very sorry for this problem; I'd usually have noticed and addressed this sooner, but it came at an unfortunate time. While I'm here - there's also a consistent failure in the 'desktop_browser' test which is just caused by a screenshot that needs updating. I'll get on that ASAP. -- Adam Williamson Fedora QA Community Monkey IRC: adamw | Twitter: AdamW_Fedora | XMPP: adamw AT happyassassin . net http://www.happyassassin.net _______________________________________________ qa-devel mailing list -- qa-devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to qa-devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org
