Okay, but what about just catching AutoservRunError so that only runlevel
execution failures are caught?

-- john

On Fri, Feb 19, 2010 at 11:08 AM, Martin Bligh <[email protected]> wrote:

> agreed, there's not much else sensible we can do.
>
> On Fri, Feb 19, 2010 at 11:02 AM, K.D. Lucas <[email protected]> wrote:
> > So there are some cases when the command is not found, which will return
> > with exit code of 127, and other cases when runlevel can't find
> > /var/run/utmp, which returns an exit code of 1.
> > If there is an error with runlevel then we're not going to get the needed
> > info out, so I think returning False is ok here, as it will let AutoTest
> > continue on it's merry way.
> > Kelly
> >
> > On Tue, Feb 16, 2010 at 8:26 AM, John Admanski <[email protected]>
> wrote:
> >>
> >> If the expected failure mode is a lack of runlevel, it should probably
> be
> >> explicitly checking for the command failing with exit code 127 instead
> of
> >> just swallowing all errors.
> >> Also, it would be nice if there was some alternate method of checking
> for
> >> "is the machine shutting down", but maybe that's just not possible.
> >>
> >> On Fri, Feb 12, 2010 at 11:16 AM, K.D. Lucas <[email protected]> wrote:
> >>>
> >>> My team is working with an operating system that doesn't support
> >>> runlevel, so I'd like to wrap that in a try block.
> >>>
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