Re: [Xen-devel] [xen-unstable test] 22283: regressions - FAIL

[Dario Faggioli <dario.faggioli@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On gio, 2013-12-05 at 12:28 +0000, Ian Campbell wrote:
> On Thu, 2013-12-05 at 13:19 +0100, Dario Faggioli wrote:
> > On gio, 2013-12-05 at 09:31 +0000, Ian Campbell wrote:
> > > On Wed, 2013-12-04 at 19:13 +0000, xen.org wrote:
> > 
> > > 2013-12-04 17:45:01 Z executing ssh ... osstest@xxxxxxxxxxxx rm -rf 
> > > /local/scratch/osstest/osstest/build.22283.build-armhf && mkdir 
> > > /local/scratch/osstest/osstest/build.22283.build-armhf
> > > Warning: Permanently added '10.80.246.74' (RSA) to the list of known 
> > > hosts.
> > > mkdir: cannot create directory 
> > > `/local/scratch/osstest/osstest/build.22283.build-armhf': No such file or 
> > > directory
> > >
> > So, about these things... Why OSSTest does no create this (and other)
> > dirs himself if they're not present?
> 
> In the general case, e.g. tmp and logs this is IMHO a bug (or several
> bugs) in osstest.
> 
Ok.

> In this particular case /local/scratch/osstest is the osstest users
> $HOME and I think osstest should be entitled to assume that exists.
> 
Right... I think I missed that part because I mostly look at test rather
than build failure reports.

> When we disabled builds on this machine I incorrectly removed this dir
> forgetting that it was $HOME and not just a scratch dir (which arises
> because osstest is a local user and not a not a global NIS user, and
> army uses NIS/autofs for /home)
> 
Mmm... interesting. I tried to do something similar on another box, but
didn't manage to get to the end of it. I'll contact you either offline
or in a different thread about that. :-)

> > If that is the case then, given a bit of attention is necessary when
> > deploying it anyway, I don't think this buys us that much more "user
> > friendliness", while it certainly is something annoying. Personally, I
> > think it should just go ahead...
> 
> Yes, for all cases apart from this one I think patches to add a suitable
> mkdir would be appreciated.
> 
Sure, I'll look into this.

Regards,
Dario

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Senior Software Engineer, Citrix Systems R&D Ltd., Cambridge (UK)

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