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[Xen-devel] Re: Re: Daily Xen Builds

To: Ian Pratt <m+Ian.Pratt@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: [Xen-devel] Re: Re: Daily Xen Builds
From: Sean Dague <sean@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 23 Nov 2005 10:12:24 -0500
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On Tue, Nov 22, 2005 at 04:50:16PM -0000, Ian Pratt wrote:
> > IP> The changes to xm-test you posted on Friday seem to have 
> > broken the 
> > IP> initrd such that the guest can't mount /proc, which seems 
> > to account 
> > IP> for the failures.
> > 
> > Actually, the problem is not from my Friday changes.  I 
> > pulled the initrd's from David's machines.  The machine with 
> > only 8 failures had a correct initrd, while the others had an 
> > older version that was made before the init script was made 
> > to be +x.  Not sure why.  He is going to blow away all of his 
> > existing trees today and see if that fixes the problem.
> > 
> > Having the rcS file not +x meant that /proc wasn't being 
> > mounted, which led to many failures.  We cleared this up 
> > shortly after the import since a lot of file permissions were lost.
> 
> OK, so I believe we're agreed it's "case closed" as regards an actual
> regression.

Sorry for the firedrill, the jump in fails looked really suspicious to me,
and I wanted to make sure folks were payings attention. :)

I think this proves that xm-test could really use a sanity check upfront,
where it ensures certain things look alright before starting the rest of the
tests.

        -Sean

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There is no silver bullet.  Plus, werewolves make better neighbors
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