Hi Pavel, The "normal" test_mips_malta timeouted on acceptance-system-fedora job:
(23/36) tests/acceptance/replay_kernel.py:ReplayKernelNormal.test_mips_malta: INTERRUPTED: Test interrupted by SIGTERM\nRunner error occurred: Timeout reached\nOriginal status: ERROR\n{'name': '23-tests/acceptance/replay_kernel.py:ReplayKernelNormal.test_mips_malta', 'logdir': '/builds/philmd/qemu2/build/tests/results/job-2021-03-19T09.38-e5751b5/... (120.52 s) artifact's debug.log: 09:43:04 DEBUG| PARAMS (key=arch, path=*, default=mips) => 'mips' 09:43:04 DEBUG| PARAMS (key=machine, path=*, default=malta) => 'malta' 09:43:04 DEBUG| PARAMS (key=qemu_bin, path=*, default=./qemu-system-mips) => './qemu-system-mips' 09:43:04 INFO | Running 'ar t /builds/philmd/qemu2/avocado-cache/by_location/44bac84408e676508a64ecba77e99389ac8fe10d/linux-image-2.6.32-5-4kc-malta_2.6.32-48_mips.deb' 09:43:04 DEBUG| [stdout] debian-binary 09:43:04 INFO | Command 'ar t /builds/philmd/qemu2/avocado-cache/by_location/44bac84408e676508a64ecba77e99389ac8fe10d/linux-image-2.6.32-5-4kc-malta_2.6.32-48_mips.deb' finished with 0 after 0.0019164085388183594s 09:43:04 DEBUG| [stdout] control.tar.gz 09:43:04 DEBUG| [stdout] data.tar.gz 09:43:04 INFO | Running 'ar x /builds/philmd/qemu2/avocado-cache/by_location/44bac84408e676508a64ecba77e99389ac8fe10d/linux-image-2.6.32-5-4kc-malta_2.6.32-48_mips.deb data.tar.gz' 09:43:04 INFO | Command 'ar x /builds/philmd/qemu2/avocado-cache/by_location/44bac84408e676508a64ecba77e99389ac8fe10d/linux-image-2.6.32-5-4kc-malta_2.6.32-48_mips.deb data.tar.gz' finished with 0 after 0.047913551330566406s 09:43:05 INFO | recording the execution... 09:43:05 DEBUG| VM launch command: './qemu-system-mips -display none -vga none -chardev socket,id=mon,path=/var/tmp/avo_qemu_sock_z2x1qvna/qemu-601-monitor.sock -mon chardev=mon,mode=control -machine malta -chardev socket,id=console,path=/var/tmp/avo_qemu_sock_z2x1qvna/qemu-601-console.sock,server=on,wait=off -serial chardev:console -icount shift=5,rr=record,rrfile=/var/tmp/avocado__uxji4xt/avocado_job_j3sdjxv9/23-tests_acceptance_replay_kernel.py_ReplayKernelNormal.test_mips_malta/replay.bin -kernel /var/tmp/avocado__uxji4xt/avocado_job_j3sdjxv9/23-tests_acceptance_replay_kernel.py_ReplayKernelNormal.test_mips_malta/boot/vmlinux-2.6.32-5-4kc-malta -append printk.time=1 panic=-1 console=ttyS0 -net none -no-reboot' 09:43:05 DEBUG| >>> {'execute': 'qmp_capabilities'} 09:43:05 DEBUG| <<< {'return': {}} 09:43:05 DEBUG| [ 0.000000] Initrd not found or empty - disabling initrd 09:43:05 DEBUG| [ 0.000000] Zone PFN ranges: 09:43:05 DEBUG| [ 0.000000] DMA 0x00000000 -> 0x00001000 09:43:05 DEBUG| [ 0.000000] Normal 0x00001000 -> 0x00007fff 09:43:05 DEBUG| [ 0.000000] Movable zone start PFN for each node 09:43:05 DEBUG| [ 0.000000] early_node_map[1] active PFN ranges 09:43:05 DEBUG| [ 0.000000] 0: 0x00000000 -> 0x00007fff 09:43:05 DEBUG| [ 0.000000] Built 1 zonelists in Zone order, mobility grouping on. Total pages: 32511 09:43:05 DEBUG| [ 0.000000] Kernel command line: printk.time=1 panic=-1 console=ttyS0 09:43:05 DEBUG| >>> {'execute': 'quit'} 09:43:05 DEBUG| <<< {'return': {}} 09:43:05 INFO | finished the recording with log size 21979 bytes 09:43:05 INFO | elapsed time 0.13 sec 09:43:05 INFO | replaying the execution... 09:43:05 DEBUG| VM launch command: './qemu-system-mips -display none -vga none -chardev socket,id=mon,path=/var/tmp/avo_qemu_sock_opalepcn/qemu-601-monitor.sock -mon chardev=mon,mode=control -machine malta -chardev socket,id=console,path=/var/tmp/avo_qemu_sock_opalepcn/qemu-601-console.sock,server=on,wait=off -serial chardev:console -icount shift=5,rr=replay,rrfile=/var/tmp/avocado__uxji4xt/avocado_job_j3sdjxv9/23-tests_acceptance_replay_kernel.py_ReplayKernelNormal.test_mips_malta/replay.bin -kernel /var/tmp/avocado__uxji4xt/avocado_job_j3sdjxv9/23-tests_acceptance_replay_kernel.py_ReplayKernelNormal.test_mips_malta/boot/vmlinux-2.6.32-5-4kc-malta -append printk.time=1 panic=-1 console=ttyS0 -net none -no-reboot' 09:43:05 DEBUG| >>> {'execute': 'qmp_capabilities'} 09:43:05 DEBUG| <<< {'return': {}} 09:43:06 DEBUG| [ 0.000000] Initrd not found or empty - disabling initrd 09:43:06 DEBUG| [ 0.000000] Zone PFN ranges: 09:43:06 DEBUG| [ 0.000000] DMA 0x00000000 -> 0x00001000 09:43:06 DEBUG| [ 0.000000] Normal 0x00001000 -> 0x00007fff 09:43:06 DEBUG| [ 0.000000] Movable zone start PFN for each node 09:43:06 DEBUG| [ 0.000000] early_node_map[1] active PFN ranges 09:43:06 DEBUG| [ 0.000000] 09:45:05 ERROR| 09:45:05 ERROR| Reproduced traceback from: /builds/philmd/qemu2/build/tests/venv/lib64/python3.9/site-packages/avocado/core/test.py:767 09:45:05 ERROR| Traceback (most recent call last): 09:45:05 ERROR| File "/builds/philmd/qemu2/build/tests/acceptance/replay_kernel.py", line 114, in test_mips_malta 09:45:05 ERROR| self.run_rr(kernel_path, kernel_command_line, console_pattern, shift=5) 09:45:05 ERROR| File "/builds/philmd/qemu2/build/tests/acceptance/replay_kernel.py", line 75, in run_rr 09:45:05 ERROR| t2 = self.run_vm(kernel_path, kernel_command_line, console_pattern, 09:45:05 ERROR| File "/builds/philmd/qemu2/build/tests/acceptance/replay_kernel.py", line 58, in run_vm 09:45:05 ERROR| self.wait_for_console_pattern(console_pattern, vm) 09:45:05 ERROR| File "/builds/philmd/qemu2/build/tests/acceptance/boot_linux_console.py", line 52, in wait_for_console_pattern 09:45:05 ERROR| wait_for_console_pattern(self, success_message, 09:45:05 ERROR| File "/builds/philmd/qemu2/build/tests/acceptance/avocado_qemu/__init__.py", line 140, in wait_for_console_pattern 09:45:05 ERROR| _console_interaction(test, success_message, failure_message, None, vm=vm) 09:45:05 ERROR| File "/builds/philmd/qemu2/build/tests/acceptance/avocado_qemu/__init__.py", line 92, in _console_interaction 09:45:05 ERROR| msg = console.readline().strip() 09:45:05 ERROR| File "/usr/lib64/python3.9/socket.py", line 704, in readinto 09:45:05 ERROR| return self._sock.recv_into(b) 09:45:05 ERROR| File "/builds/philmd/qemu2/build/tests/venv/lib64/python3.9/site-packages/avocado/plugins/runner.py", line 77, in sigterm_handler 09:45:05 ERROR| raise RuntimeError("Test interrupted by SIGTERM") 09:45:05 ERROR| RuntimeError: Test interrupted by SIGTERM What to do, simply implement the timeout again? Allow failure? Thanks, Phil.