We're struggling with the 6.5 kernel as the serial port getty doesn't appears sometimes leading to failures in CI. Add a workaround of sending some newlines as a way of unblocking the kernel/release issues whilst we try and work out how to get to the bottom of the issue.
Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <[email protected]> --- meta/lib/oeqa/utils/qemurunner.py | 9 +++++++++ 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+) diff --git a/meta/lib/oeqa/utils/qemurunner.py b/meta/lib/oeqa/utils/qemurunner.py index 387addfcdfe..6c91570d1b5 100644 --- a/meta/lib/oeqa/utils/qemurunner.py +++ b/meta/lib/oeqa/utils/qemurunner.py @@ -444,9 +444,11 @@ class QemuRunner: self.logger.debug("Waiting at most %d seconds for login banner (%s)" % (self.boottime, time.strftime("%D %H:%M:%S"))) endtime = time.time() + self.boottime + newlinetime = time.time() + 120 filelist = [self.server_socket, self.runqemu.stdout] reachedlogin = False stopread = False + sentnewlines = False qemusock = None bootlog = b'' data = b'' @@ -455,6 +457,13 @@ class QemuRunner: sread, swrite, serror = select.select(filelist, [], [], 5) except InterruptedError: continue + # With the 6.5 kernel, the serial port getty sometimes fails to appear, the data + # appears lost in some buffer somewhere. Wait two minutes, then if we've not had a login, + # try and provoke one. This is a workaround until we can work out the root cause. + if time.time() > newlinetime and not sentnewlines: + self.logger.warning('Probing the serial port to wake it up!') + self.server_socket.sendall(bytes("\n\n", "utf-8")) + sentnewlines = True for file in sread: if file is self.server_socket: qemusock, addr = self.server_socket.accept() -- 2.39.2
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