The test suite purges the scratch dir in the tearDown method, but
if python crashes (or is non-gracefully killed) this won't get run.
Also the user can set QEMU_TEST_KEEP_SCRATCH to disable cleanup.
Purging the scratch dir on startup ensures that tests always run
from a clean state.
Reported-by: Peter Maydell <peter.mayd...@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berra...@redhat.com>
---
tests/functional/qemu_test/testcase.py | 4 ++++
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)
diff --git a/tests/functional/qemu_test/testcase.py
b/tests/functional/qemu_test/testcase.py
index faa0a4f0db..2c0abde395 100644
--- a/tests/functional/qemu_test/testcase.py
+++ b/tests/functional/qemu_test/testcase.py
@@ -205,6 +205,10 @@ def setUp(self):
self.outputdir = self.build_file('tests', 'functional',
self.arch, self.id())
self.workdir = os.path.join(self.outputdir, 'scratch')
+ if os.path.exists(self.workdir):
+ # Purge as safety net in case of unclean termination of
+ # previous test, or use of QEMU_TEST_KEEP_SCRATCH
+ shutil.rmtree(self.workdir)
os.makedirs(self.workdir, exist_ok=True)
self.log_filename = self.log_file('base.log')
--
2.50.1
