It would be useful if we could retry installing the utah-client a few times in case things like below are a transient error. This one in particular causes daily smoke jobs to fail every so often.
2013-05-02 18:17:47,438 ssh WARNING: SSH command (while fuser /var/lib/dpkg/lock \
/var/cache/apt/archives/lock \
/var/lib/apt/lists/lock \
>/dev/null 2>&1
do
logger -t utah "Waiting for packaging locks to become available..."
sleep 10
done
DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive gdebi -n -q /tmp/utah-client_0.10ubuntu1-r861~precise1_all.deb) failed with return code: 1
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/utah/run.py", line 277, in run_tests
machine.installclient()
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/utah/provisioning/provisioning.py", line 464, in installclient
raise UTAHProvisioningException('Failed to install client\n')
UTAHProvisioningException: Failed to install client
+ RETCODE=1
