Re: [Qemu-devel] test-qga failures on Fedora 24

[Peter Maydell]

On 7 July 2016 at 00:02, Michael Roth <address@hidden> wrote:
> Quoting John Snow (2016-07-06 17:41:32)
>>
>>
>> On 07/06/2016 06:20 PM, Michael Roth wrote:
>> > Quoting Marc-André Lureau (2016-07-06 16:40:52)
>> >>> Here's the meat of it:
>> >>>
>> >>>   LINK  tests/test-qga
>> >>> GTESTER tests/test-qga
>> >>> **
>> >>> ERROR:/home/bos/jhuston/src/qemu/tests/test-qga.c:266:test_qga_get_fsinfo:
>> >>> assertion failed ret: GenericError realpath("/sys/dev/block/8:17"): No
>> >>> such file or directory
>> >>> GTester: last random seed: R02S9d55aa8939b9bd797279bd3f69d33466
>> >>> **
>> >>> ERROR:/home/bos/jhuston/src/qemu/tests/test-qga.c:685:test_qga_blacklist:
>> >>> assertion failed ret: GenericError realpath("/sys/dev/block/8:17"): No
>> >>> such file or directory
>> >>> GTester: last random seed: R02Sb9bc461c2129c284f83033dca27827c6
>> >>> /home/bos/jhuston/src/qemu/tests/Makefile.include:684: recipe for target
>> >>> 'check-tests/test-qga' failed
>> >>> make: *** [check-tests/test-qga] Error 1
>> >>>
>> >>>
>> >>> Any clues as to what's gone awry?

>> Good news: The problem went away.
>>
>> It was likely due to an external XFS drive I have that perhaps didn't
>> properly register as ejected. I unmounted it and re-mounted it and now
>> everything's fine.
>>
>> I'm not sure where it got 8:17, though. I guess mtab was stale?
>
> Yah, that would explain it. The values are pulled from mtab via
> getmntent()

I just ran into this today too (in my case due to an external
USB mass storage device that was powered-down without being
unmounted). It's kind of annoying that the test fails: why should
it care at all about what block devices you happen to have
on your system, whether they're mounted or busted or otherwise ?

thanks
-- PMM