On 12.07.2012 [20:05:14 -0300], Cleber Rosa wrote:
> On 07/12/2012 04:46 PM, Nishanth Aravamudan wrote:
> >On 12.07.2012 [13:33:16 -0300], Cleber Rosa wrote:
> >>On 07/12/2012 08:55 AM, Cleber Rosa wrote:
> >>>On 07/12/2012 05:07 AM, Nishanth Aravamudan wrote:
> >>>>On 12.07.2012 [00:20:04 -0700], Nishanth Aravamudan wrote:
> >>>>>Hi all,
> >>>>>
> >>>>>After finally bothering to just put a proxy in place locally, I got
> >>>>>grubby 8.15 to build, but it doesn't seem to make boottool happy :)
> >>>>>
> >>>>>07/12 02:53:12 INFO | boottool:0667| Installing grubby
> >>>>>because currently installed version (8.11) is not recent
> >>>>>enough
> >>>>>07/12 02:53:18 DEBUG| boottool:0674| Installed: grubby version 8.15
> >>>>>07/12 02:53:18 ERROR| job:1338| JOB ERROR: Unhandled
> >>>>>TypeError: sequence item 0: expected string, NoneType found
> >>>>>Traceback (most recent call last):
> >>>>> File "/usr/local/autotest/job.py", line 1089, in _run_step_fn
> >>>>> exec('__ret = %s(*__args, **__dargs)' % fn, local_vars,
> >>>>>local_vars)
> >>>>> File "<string>", line 1, in <module>
> >>>>> File "/usr/local/autotest/control.autoserv", line 16, in boot_kernel
> >>>>> host.cleanup_kernels()
> >>>>> File "/usr/local/autotest/shared/hosts/base_classes.py",
> >>>>>line 655, in cleanup_kernels
> >>>>> boot_info = self.bootloader.get_entries()
> >>>>> File "/usr/local/autotest/tools/boottool.py", line 1150, in
> >>>>>get_entries
> >>>>> raw = self.get_info()
> >>>>> File "/usr/local/autotest/tools/boottool.py", line 1180, in get_info
> >>>>> info = self._run_grubby_get_output([command])
> >>>>> File "/usr/local/autotest/tools/boottool.py", line 835, in
> >>>>>_run_grubby_get_output
> >>>>> return self._run_get_output(args)
> >>>>> File "/usr/local/autotest/tools/boottool.py", line 751, in
> >>>>>_run_get_output
> >>>>> ' '.join(arguments))
> >>>>>TypeError: sequence item 0: expected string, NoneType found
> >>>>>
> >>>>>07/12 02:53:18 INFO | job:0210| END ABORT ---- ----
> >>>>>timestamp=1342075998 localtime=Jul 12 02:53:18 Unhandled
> >>>>>TypeError: sequence item 0: expected string, NoneType found
> >>>>> Traceback (most recent call last):
> >>>>> File "/usr/local/autotest/job.py", line 1089, in _run_step_fn
> >>>>> exec('__ret = %s(*__args, **__dargs)' % fn, local_vars,
> >>>>>local_vars)
> >>>>> File "<string>", line 1, in <module>
> >>>>> File "/usr/local/autotest/control.autoserv", line 16, in
> >>>>>boot_kernel
> >>>>> host.cleanup_kernels()
> >>>>> File "/usr/local/autotest/shared/hosts/base_classes.py",
> >>>>>line 655, in cleanup_kernels
> >>>>> boot_info = self.bootloader.get_entries()
> >>>>> File "/usr/local/autotest/tools/boottool.py", line 1150,
> >>>>>in get_entries
> >>>>> raw = self.get_info()
> >>>>> File "/usr/local/autotest/tools/boottool.py", line 1180,
> >>>>>in get_info
> >>>>> info = self._run_grubby_get_output([command])
> >>>>> File "/usr/local/autotest/tools/boottool.py", line 835,
> >>>>>in _run_grubby_get_output
> >>>>> return self._run_get_output(args)
> >>>>> File "/usr/local/autotest/tools/boottool.py", line 751,
> >>>>>in _run_get_output
> >>>>> ' '.join(arguments))
> >>>>> TypeError: sequence item 0: expected string, NoneType found
> >>>>> 07/12 02:53:18 DEBUG| base_job:0349| Persistent state
> >>>>>client._record_indent now set to 0
> >>>>I won't claim to understand why it's happening, but I can tell a bit
> >>>>more about what's happening:
> >>>>
> >>>>Adding some hacks locally to _run_grubby_get_output, to print out the
> >>>>parameter arguments and the prepared return value args, I get:
> >>>>
> >>>>04:01:35 INFO | Writing results to /usr/local/autotest/results/default
> >>>>04:01:35 INFO | START ---- ---- timestamp=1342080095
> >>>>localtime=Jul 12 04:01:35
> >>>>04:01:36 INFO | arguments : ['--info=ALL']
> >>>>04:01:36 INFO | self.path = None
> >>>>04:01:36 INFO | arguments : ['--version']
> >>>>04:01:36 INFO | self.path = /sbin/grubby
> >>>>04:01:36 INFO | args : ['/sbin/grubby', '--version']
> >>>>04:01:36 INFO | arguments : ['--version']
> >>>>04:01:36 INFO | self.path = /sbin/grubby
> >>>>04:01:36 INFO | args : ['/sbin/grubby', '--version']
> >>>>04:01:36 INFO | arguments : ['--version']
> >>>>04:01:36 INFO | self.path = /sbin/grubby
> >>>>04:01:36 INFO | args : ['/sbin/grubby', '--version']
> >>>>04:01:36 INFO | args : [None, '--grub2', '--info=ALL']
> >>>>04:01:36 ERROR| JOB ERROR: Unhandled TypeError: sequence item 0:
> >>>>expected string, NoneType found
> >>>>
> >>>>So a couple of questions come to mind:
> >>>>
> >>>>1) why do we call --version so many times?
> >>>There's certainly room for optimizations here.
> >>>
> >>>>2) AFAICT from my debugging, this is all coming from the one call to
> >>>>get_info(), but I don't see how self.path can be None.
> >>>I've seen the same error when I had two grub entries with the same
> >>>kernel and parameters set. I'm *guessiing* this is related to it,
> >>>as your configuration also seems to be like that. I'm debugging
> >>>that right now and will let you know about it.
> >>Nish,
> >>
> >>My first guess was actually incorrect. I've identified that the
> >>error is related to the laziness of the client/shared/boottool.py
> >>code when instantiating boottool, which inherits from Grubby.
> >>
> >>I've switched from the lazy approach to simply importing Grubby as
> >>boottool from the boottool_cli module:
> >>
> >>from boottool_cli import Grubby as boottool
> >>
> >>and the error ceases to exist.
> >>
> >>I'm working on fixing that now.
> >Something like the following?
> >
> >diff --git a/client/shared/boottool.py b/client/shared/boottool.py
> >index 90f936b..05858d6 100644
> >--- a/client/shared/boottool.py
> >+++ b/client/shared/boottool.py
> >@@ -29,30 +29,4 @@ except ImportError:
> > imp.load_source("boottool_cli", BOOTTOOL_CLI_PATH)
> >-from boottool_cli import Grubby, install_grubby_if_necessary, EfiToolSys
> >-
> >-
> >-class boottool(Grubby):
> >- """
> >- Client site side boottool wrapper.
> >-
> >- Inherits all functionality from boottool(.py) CLI app (lazily).
> >- """
> >- def __init__(self, path='/sbin/grubby'):
> >- self.instantiated = False
> >- self.path = path
> >-
> >-
> >- def _init_on_demand(self):
> >- if not self.instantiated:
> >- try:
> >- install_grubby_if_necessary()
> >- Grubby.__init__(self, self.path)
> >- self.instantiated = True
> >- except Exception, e:
> >- raise error.JobError("Unable to instantiate boottool: %s" %
> >e)
> >-
> >-
> >- def __getattr__(self, name):
> >- self._init_on_demand()
> >- return Grubby.__getattribute__(self, name)
> >+from boottool_cli import Grubby as boottool, install_grubby_if_necessary,
> >EfiToolSys
> >
> >This also seems to be working here.
>
> Yes, exactly.
>
> But the lazy instantiation was done on purpose, and we may not be
> able to get rid of it that easily. I'm doing some experimentation
> here to think about the best approach.
Lacking the historical context, what was the purpose originally?
-Nish
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Nishanth Aravamudan <[email protected]>
IBM Linux Technology Center
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