On Mon, Jul 18, 2022 at 4:17 AM Thomas Huth <th...@redhat.com> wrote: > > On 08/07/2022 17.34, John Snow wrote: > > Note: patches 10-12 are included for testing simplicity, they shouldn't > > be merged. They will be included in a forthcoming block PR. > > > > V4: > > > > - Addressed concern by Marc-Andre in patch 01. > > - Squashed Ubuntu patches (rth) > > > > This patch series attempts to improve the reliability of several of the > > VM test targets. In particular, both CentOS 8 tests are non-functional > > because CentOS 8 was EOL at the beginning of this calendar year, with > > repositories and mirrors going offline. > > > > I also remove the ubuntu.i386 test because we no longer support Ubuntu > > 18.04 nor do we have explicit need of an i386 build test. > > > > After this series, I am able to successfully run every VM target on an > > x86_64 host, except: > > > > - ubuntu.aarch64: Hangs often during testing, see below. > > - centos.aarch64: Hangs often during testing, see below. > > - haiku.x86_64: Build failures not addressed by this series, see > > https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2022-06/msg02103.html > > > > The unit tests that I see fail most often under aarch64 are: > > > > - virtio-net-failover: Seems to like to hang on openbsd > > - migration-test: Tends to hang under aarch64 tcg > > > > Future work (next version? next series?); > > > > - Try to get centos.aarch64 working reliably under TCG > > - Upgrade ubuntu.aarch64 to 20.04 after fixing centos.aarch64 > > - Fix the Haiku build test, if possible. > > - Ensure I can reliably run and pass "make vm-build-all". > > (Remove VMs from this recipe if necessary.) > > Not sure whether it's related to your patches, but when testing these I just > got an error while running 'vm-build-openbsd' : > > VM-BUILD openbsd > fatal: not a valid object name: > failed to archive qemu > Failed to prepare guest environment > Traceback (most recent call last): > File "/home/thuth/devel/qemu/tests/vm/basevm.py", line 641, in main > vm.add_source_dir(args.build_qemu) > File "/home/thuth/devel/qemu/tests/vm/basevm.py", line 277, in > add_source_dir > stdout=self._stdout, stderr=self._stderr) > File "/usr/lib64/python3.6/subprocess.py", line 311, in check_call > raise CalledProcessError(retcode, cmd) > subprocess.CalledProcessError: Command '['./scripts/archive-source.sh', > '/home/thuth/tmp/qemu-build/vm-test-rm_z92hq.tmp/data-44e42.tar']' returned > non-zero exit status 1. > > The error did not occur again when running the command again, though. > > Thomas >
I haven't seen this one before, admittedly. Looks like scripts/archive-source.sh L52 choked? git archive --format tar "$(tree_ish)" > "$tar_file" I'm not sure what "fatal: not a valid object name:" might be referring to. Maybe tree_ish picked up something that tasted bad? I really don't know.
