I tried a number of command combinations adding the new args, and none worked. Can you advise, xypron?
``` andersson123@duckstation7:~/canonical/code/autopkgtest$ ./runner/autopkgtest -U --apt-pocket=proposed -a armhf -s mawk -- qemu --qemu-architecture=arm autopkgtest-noble-armhf.img autopkgtest [18:02:03]: starting date and time: 2023-11-01 18:02:03+0000 autopkgtest [18:02:03]: git checkout: f1594619 5.28ubuntu1 (patches unapplied) autopkgtest [18:02:03]: host duckstation7; command line: ./runner/autopkgtest -U --apt-pocket=proposed -a armhf -s mawk -- qemu --qemu-architecture=arm autopkgtest-noble-armhf.img qemu-system-arm: terminating on signal 15 from pid 1374981 (/usr/bin/python3) <VirtSubproc>: failure: timed out waiting for 'login prompt on serial console' autopkgtest [18:03:03]: ERROR: testbed failure: unexpected eof from the testbed andersson123@duckstation7:~/canonical/code/autopkgtest$ ./runner/autopkgtest -U --apt-pocket=proposed -a armhf -s mawk -- qemu --dpkg-architecture=armhf autopkgtest-noble-armhf.img autopkgtest [18:03:19]: starting date and time: 2023-11-01 18:03:19+0000 autopkgtest [18:03:19]: git checkout: f1594619 5.28ubuntu1 (patches unapplied) autopkgtest [18:03:19]: host duckstation7; command line: ./runner/autopkgtest -U --apt-pocket=proposed -a armhf -s mawk -- qemu --dpkg-architecture=armhf autopkgtest-noble-armhf.img qemu-system-arm: terminating on signal 15 from pid 1425854 (/usr/bin/python3) <VirtSubproc>: failure: timed out waiting for 'login prompt on serial console' autopkgtest [18:04:19]: ERROR: testbed failure: unexpected eof from the testbed andersson123@duckstation7:~/canonical/code/autopkgtest$ ./runner/autopkgtest -U --apt-pocket=proposed -a armhf -s mawk -- qemu --qemu-architecture=arm autopkgtest-noble-armhf.img autopkgtest [18:07:30]: starting date and time: 2023-11-01 18:07:30+0000 autopkgtest [18:07:30]: git checkout: f1594619 5.28ubuntu1 (patches unapplied) autopkgtest [18:07:30]: host duckstation7; command line: ./runner/autopkgtest -U --apt-pocket=proposed -a armhf -s mawk -- qemu --qemu-architecture=arm autopkgtest-noble-armhf.img qemu-system-arm: terminating on signal 15 from pid 1620808 (/usr/bin/python3) <VirtSubproc>: failure: timed out waiting for 'login prompt on serial console' autopkgtest [18:08:31]: ERROR: testbed failure: unexpected eof from the testbed ``` -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Canonical's Ubuntu QA, which is subscribed to autopkgtest in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/2036730 Title: autopkgtest ignores --architecture flag Status in autopkgtest package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Status in livecd-rootfs package in Ubuntu: Fix Released Bug description: On an arm64 as well as on amd64 I saw this behavior: $ autopkgtest-buildvm-ubuntu-cloud -v --arch armhf --release mantic $ autopkgtest -U --apt-pocket=proposed -a armhf -s *.dsc -- qemu autopkgtest-mantic-armhf.img autopkgtest [13:18:32]: starting date and time: 2023-09-20 13:18:32+0200 autopkgtest [13:18:32]: version 5.28ubuntu1 autopkgtest [13:18:32]: host mcbin; command line: /usr/bin/autopkgtest -U --apt-pocket=proposed -a armhf -s forensics-all_3.47.dsc -- qemu autopkgtest-mantic-armhf.img qemu-system-aarch64: terminating on signal 15 from pid 3520 (/usr/bin/python3) <VirtSubproc>: failure: timed out waiting for 'login prompt on serial console' autopkgtest [13:19:33]: ERROR: testbed failure: unexpected eof from the testbed When trying to boot into the image on an arm64 system with qemu-system-aarch64 \ -machine virt -accel kvm -m 4G -smp 4 -cpu host,aarch64=off -nographic \ -object rng-random,filename=/dev/urandom,id=rng0 \ -device virtio-rng-pci,rng=rng0,id=rng-device0 \ -drive if=pflash,format=raw,unit=0,read-only=on,file=/usr/share/AAVMF/AAVMF32_CODE.fd \ -device virtio-net-pci,netdev=eth0 \ -netdev user,id=eth0,hostfwd=tcp::8022-:22 \ -drive file=autopkgtest-mantic-armhf.img,if=virtio,format=qcow2 the last messages displayed are EFI stub: Booting Linux Kernel... EFI stub: Entering in SVC mode with MMU enabled EFI stub: Loaded initrd from LINUX_EFI_INITRD_MEDIA_GUID device path EFI stub: Using DTB from configuration table EFI stub: Exiting boot services... qemu-system-aarch64 seems to be close to idling at less than 0.5 % CPU load. So booting obviously stalled. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/autopkgtest/+bug/2036730/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~canonical-ubuntu-qa Post to : canonical-ubuntu-qa@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~canonical-ubuntu-qa More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
