Hi folks! So those of you who watch the openQA results might have noticed that for the last month or so, there have been lots of problems with the 'chained' tests - the _base_ tests that run for various of the media after default_install has been run, and use a hard disk snapshot uploaded by default_install.
I think I've made some progress on this. I've made one change, and proposed another. The first change: I made it possible to configure openQA's total asset size limit in the Ansible plays for deploying openQA, and set the limit for our deployments to 300GB (the default is 100GB): https://infrastructure.fedoraproject.org/cgit/ansible.git/commit?id=cb7bfcb614d8888bfa7744826575950e5a46dbf3 (plus a couple of follow-up commits). That's the value that openQA uses for cleaning up old assets: when there's more than that amount of assets, it wipes some. What I suspect was happening there is that since we already have more than 100GB of assets all the time (...depending on exactly how you count, there's some subtlety there) gru was sometimes wiping uploaded disk images as part of the 'remove old assets' task before they could be used. This, I think, accounts for the cases where the chained tests did not run at all, and reported 'setup failure'. The second change: https://phab.qadevel.cloud.fedoraproject.org/D787 . What that does is make it so that tests which upload a disk image try to shut down the VM cleanly before doing so. Without that change, we were actually uploading the disk image file while the virtual machine was still running, I think. I believe that was the cause of the cases where the Server DVD post-install tests ran, but all failed due to the system failing to reach a login prompt at all. I'm hoping with D787 reviewed and applied, almost all openQA tests should be working again. We're left only with the i386 kernel problem and whatever's going wrong with server_kickstart_hdd (I don't *think* that's a corrupt image problem like server_updates_img_local was, I think it may be a genuine bug). -- 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 http://lists.fedoraproject.org/admin/lists/qa-devel@lists.fedoraproject.org
