Instead of make all the testing in a shell one liner, divide the test into 3 operations to be able to know in what part is failing.
Parts, - Log message to syslog - Review if message exist in /var/log/messages - Review if message exist using logread Signed-off-by: Aníbal Limón <anibal.li...@linux.intel.com> --- meta/lib/oeqa/runtime/syslog.py | 9 +++++++-- 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/meta/lib/oeqa/runtime/syslog.py b/meta/lib/oeqa/runtime/syslog.py index f7421ec..202a63f 100644 --- a/meta/lib/oeqa/runtime/syslog.py +++ b/meta/lib/oeqa/runtime/syslog.py @@ -18,8 +18,13 @@ class SyslogTestConfig(oeRuntimeTest): @testcase(1149) @skipUnlessPassed("test_syslog_running") def test_syslog_logger(self): - (status,output) = self.target.run('logger foobar && test -e /var/log/messages && grep foobar /var/log/messages || logread | grep foobar') - self.assertEqual(status, 0, msg="Test log string not found in /var/log/messages. Output: %s " % output) + (status, output) = self.target.run('logger foobar') + self.assertEqual(status, 0, msg="Can't log into syslog. Output: %s " % output) + + (status, output) = self.target.run('grep foobar /var/log/messages') + if status != 0: + (status, output) = self.target.run('logread | grep foobar') + self.assertEqual(status, 0, msg="Test log string not found in /var/log/messages or logread. Output: %s " % output) @testcase(1150) @skipUnlessPassed("test_syslog_running") -- 2.1.4 -- _______________________________________________ Openembedded-core mailing list Openembedded-core@lists.openembedded.org http://lists.openembedded.org/mailman/listinfo/openembedded-core