On Tue, Mar 5, 2013 at 10:58 AM, Lucas Meneghel Rodrigues <[email protected]> wrote: > On Mon, Mar 4, 2013 at 5:20 PM, Chris Evich <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> And another problem is the crash handler set by autotest is gone if >>> I use the standalone runner, I guess we should bring it back again. >> >> >> I vaguely remember lmr explaining the reasoning behind this as: If you're >> using the runner, you'll likely notice a crash and don't need the code to do >> the work of your eyeballs. I could be mistaken though. > > You're mistaken indeed. The gist of the crash handler not being > present is that in any modern-ish distro that people use for > development there is a crash handling system [1] and therefore we > don't need the custom one that autotest sets up. With those crash > handling systems you can get a nice notification that there was a > crash, and a wizard kind of thing that helps you open a bug on the > distro's bug tracker. > > Now, if the standalone runner is somehow missing crashes during > postprocess, this is a bug and we should fix it (even if the > infrastructure is not analyzing or processing the crashes as > mentioned). Need to see what is happening and fix it. > > If I had to guess right now without looking at the code, I'd say we > are lacking some functions to verify kernel and QEMU crashes during > postprocessing.
There, I sent an RFC patch, with no testing whatsoever right now, illustrating my point. -- Lucas _______________________________________________ Virt-test-devel mailing list [email protected] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/virt-test-devel
