This fixes the functional-system-debian job with the currently awol archive.openwrt.org server.
https://gitlab.com/berrange/qemu/-/jobs/11173491503 We can see teh download fail & retry, and then gracefully skip pre-cache: 2025-08-29 08:02:16,510 - qemu-test - INFO - Downloading https://archive.openwrt.org/chaos_calmer/15.05.1/realview/generic/openwrt-15.05.1-realview-vmlinux-initramfs.elf to /builds/berrange/qemu/functional-cache/download/d3a01037f33e7512d46d50975588d5c3a0e0cbf25f37afab44775c2a2be523e6... 2025-08-29 08:04:28,104 - qemu-test - ERROR - Unable to download https://archive.openwrt.org/chaos_calmer/15.05.1/realview/generic/openwrt-15.05.1-realview-vmlinux-initramfs.elf: URL error <urlopen error [Errno 101] Network is unreachable> 2025-08-29 08:06:39,177 - qemu-test - ERROR - Unable to download https://archive.openwrt.org/chaos_calmer/15.05.1/realview/generic/openwrt-15.05.1-realview-vmlinux-initramfs.elf: URL error <urlopen error [Errno 101] Network is unreachable> 2025-08-29 08:08:50,248 - qemu-test - ERROR - Unable to download https://archive.openwrt.org/chaos_calmer/15.05.1/realview/generic/openwrt-15.05.1-realview-vmlinux-initramfs.elf: URL error <urlopen error [Errno 101] Network is unreachable> 2025-08-29 08:08:50,250 - qemu-test - ERROR - https://archive.openwrt.org/chaos_calmer/15.05.1/realview/generic/openwrt-15.05.1-realview-vmlinux-initramfs.elf: Download retries exceeded: skipping asset precache And then later the test itself is skipped: 55/67 qemu:func-thorough+func-arm-thorough+thorough / func-arm-realview SKIP 0.11s 0 subtests passed Daniel P. Berrangé (3): tests/functional: enable force refresh of cached assets tests/functional: fix formatting of exception args tests/functional: handle URLError when fetching assets docs/devel/testing/functional.rst | 3 +++ tests/functional/qemu_test/asset.py | 20 ++++++++++++++++---- 2 files changed, 19 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) -- 2.50.1