Next Generation Checkbox (CLI)

Log files deleted if SUT crashes

Bug #1314241 reported by Michael F. Miller
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Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
Next Generation Checkbox (CLI)
Fix Released
Critical
Zygmunt Krynicki
Next Generation Checkbox (CLI) 0.4
PlainBox (Toolkit)
Fix Released
Critical
Zygmunt Krynicki
PlainBox (Toolkit) 0.6

Bug Description

Checkbox will delete logs if test is continued after a crash, broken connection, etc.

Checkbox had run almost to completion during a cert run when power was lost to the SUT. After correcting the problem, rebooting the SUT, and restarting the cert the log files were overwritten, the test completed, and the results.html file was empty. See the attachment.
Tests had to be completely rerun.

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Michael F. Miller (mikem1355) wrote :
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Zygmunt Krynicki (zyga) wrote :

Can you share the version of checkbox and plainbox that was used during this experiment?

Also please tell us the way to reproduce the problem (we can crash the system by forcibly power cycling the computer)

Zygmunt Krynicki (zyga)
Changed in checkbox:
status: New → Incomplete
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Michael F. Miller (mikem1355) wrote :

ii checkbox-ng 0.4~dev+bzr2944+pkg5~ubuntu14.04.1 all PlainBox based test runner
ii plainbox-provider-checkbox 0.5~dev+bzr2944+pkg3~ubuntu14.04.1 amd64 CheckBox provider for PlainBox
ii python3-checkbox-ng 0.4~dev+bzr2944+pkg5~ubuntu14.04.1 all PlainBox based test runner (Python 3 library)
ii python3-checkbox-support 0.3~dev+bzr2944+pkg2~ubuntu14.04.1 all collection of Python modules used by PlainBox providers

To reproduce the failure start the server cert and pull power or close ssh session. After restoring a connection to the SUT start the cert again, `canonical-certification-server`. You will be prompted to restart the test or start over. Select 'y' to continue the existing run. The existing .local/share/plainbox files will be overwritten. When the cert run ends the results.html and submission.xml files will contain data from where the test was restarted.
In my case the cert was _almost_ complete when power failed. Upon completion the files contained no test results.

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Michael F. Miller (mikem1355) wrote :

Zygmunt, is there anything else you need from me?

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Zygmunt Krynicki (zyga) wrote :

Thanks. I will need to investigate it more now. I wast just checking if you were using checkbox-ng or checkbox-legacy.

Changed in checkbox:
status: Incomplete → Triaged
importance: Undecided → Critical
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Zygmunt Krynicki (zyga) wrote :

This is now partially addressed by https://code.launchpad.net/~zkrynicki/checkbox/rewritten-multisession-run/+merge/217821

I will make the corresponding changes to checkbox-ng

Changed in checkbox:
status: Triaged → In Progress
assignee: nobody → Zygmunt Krynicki (zkrynicki)
affects: checkbox → checkbox-ng
Changed in plainbox:
status: New → In Progress
importance: Undecided → Critical
assignee: nobody → Zygmunt Krynicki (zkrynicki)
milestone: none → 0.6
Changed in checkbox-ng:
milestone: none → 0.4
Zygmunt Krynicki (zyga)
Changed in plainbox:
status: In Progress → Fix Committed
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Zygmunt Krynicki (zyga) wrote :

The checkbox-ng part is now fixed with the default of checkbox-cli --new-ui

Changed in checkbox-ng:
status: In Progress → Fix Committed
Sylvain Pineau (sylvain-pineau)
Changed in plainbox:
status: Fix Committed → Fix Released
Changed in checkbox-ng:
status: Fix Committed → Fix Released
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