testdir can be a very long directory since it depends on source directory path, this can lead to failure during tests when UNIX socket path exceeds maximum allowed length of 97 characters as defined in str2sa_range().
16:48:14 [ALERT] *** h1 debug| (10082) : config : parsing [/tmp/haregtests-2022-12-17_16-47-39.4RNzIN/vtc.4850.5d0d728a/h1/cfg:19] : 'bind' : socket path 'unix@/local/p4clients/pkgbuild-bB20r/workspace/build/HAProxy/HAProxy-2.7.x.68.0/AL2_x86_64/DEV.STD.PTHREAD/build/private/HAProxy-2.7.x/src/reg-tests/lua/srv3' too long (max 97) Also, it is not advisable to create UNIX socket in actual source directory, but instead use dedicated temporary directory create for test purpose. This should be backported to 2.6 --- reg-tests/lua/lua_httpclient.vtc | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/reg-tests/lua/lua_httpclient.vtc b/reg-tests/lua/lua_httpclient.vtc index 0850ddb5f3f2..0a274932ab23 100644 --- a/reg-tests/lua/lua_httpclient.vtc +++ b/reg-tests/lua/lua_httpclient.vtc @@ -51,13 +51,13 @@ haproxy h1 -conf { listen li1 mode http - bind unix@${testdir}/srv3 + bind unix@${tmpdir}/srv3 server srv3 ${s3_addr}:${s3_port} } -start client c0 -connect ${h1_fe1_sock} { - txreq -url "/" -hdr "vtcport: ${s1_port}" -hdr "vtcport2: ${s2_port}" -hdr "vtcport3: unix@${testdir}/srv3" + txreq -url "/" -hdr "vtcport: ${s1_port}" -hdr "vtcport2: ${s2_port}" -hdr "vtcport3: unix@${tmpdir}/srv3" rxresp expect resp.status == 200 } -run