Odd errors on vdsm_unit_tests

[Dan Kenigsberg]

On Thu, Apr 11, 2013 at 11:47:52PM +0200, David Caro wrote:
> On Thu 11 Apr 2013 11:36:27 PM CEST, David Caro wrote:
> > On Thu 11 Apr 2013 11:22:00 PM CEST, Dan Kenigsberg wrote:
> >> Jenkins used to send email notifications about unit tests failures to
> >> vdsm-patches at lists.fedorahosted.org at least until March 20.
> >>
> >> Come to think of it, the emails seized to have content on March 5.
> >>
> >> Now they are not sent at all.
> >>
> >
> > I think I'm not on that list, I'll sign up and look at it, see if I can
> > figure out something.
> >
> >> Beyond this, we have a very odd non-deterministic failure
> >> http://jenkins.ovirt.org/job/vdsm_unit_tests_gerrit/1976/console
> >> (except below).
> >>
> >> Could the test be run with an unusual locale?
> >> Does anybody have another idea?
> >>
> >> Could someone (Giuseppe? David?) log into this fedora18-vm01 slave and try to
> >> reproduce the issue from the command line?
> >>
> >> Regards,
> >> Dan.
> >>
> >> ======================================================================
> >> ERROR: test_deviceCustomProperties (hooksTests.TestHooks)
> >> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> >> Traceback (most recent call last):
> >>   File "/jenkins-workspaces/vdsm_unit_tests_gerrit/tests/hooksTests.py", line 125, in test_deviceCustomProperties
> >>     params={'customProperty': ' rocks!'})
> >>   File "/jenkins-workspaces/vdsm_unit_tests_gerrit/vdsm/hooks.py", line 72, in _runHooksDir
> >>     scriptenv[k] = unicode(v).encode('utf-8')
> >> UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xc5 in position 7: ordinal not in range(128)
> >>
> >> ======================================================================
> >> ERROR: test_runHooksDir (hooksTests.TestHooks)
> >> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> >> Traceback (most recent call last):
> >>   File "/jenkins-workspaces/vdsm_unit_tests_gerrit/tests/hooksTests.py", line 72, in test_runHooksDir
> >>     res = hooks._runHooksDir(DOMXML, dirName)
> >>   File "/jenkins-workspaces/vdsm_unit_tests_gerrit/vdsm/hooks.py", line 72, in _runHooksDir
> >>     scriptenv[k] = unicode(v).encode('utf-8')
> >> UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xc5 in position 7: ordinal not in range(128)
> >
> > About that error, yes, Me and Antoni Segura (apuimedo) troubleshot it,
> > the problem is that one of the developers has non ascii letter on it's
> > name, passing it to the author tag on gerrit, that loads it on
> > GERRIT_*_AUTHOR env variable. Not sure if antoni is working on a patch
> > or notified someone though.
> >
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> Forgot to mention, the error that bugs me is this one:
> 
> http://jenkins.ovirt.org/job/vdsm_unit_tests_gerrit/1962/console
> 
> We had several of those today and it all seemed to stop when I set the 
> core dump limit to 'unlimited' (ulimit -c). I saw that before with one 
> patch but subsequent patches worked, so I did not investigate further. 
> As far as I know, the problem is that the test testIsSuperUp somehow 
> end up killing the jenkins slave process (if you run it manually you 
> get a message that says 'killed' in the console). That test seems to 
> mess with threads and processes and maybe it just identifies the slave 
> process as the one to stop (just a wild guess :S).

Yeah, I've noticed this bug in testIsSuperUp, and Yaniv Bronheim is
aware of it.

Dan.