This is seen on the new autobuilder infrastructure. RP figured it out. The old autobuilder ran qemuimagetest image by image: bitbake core-image-minimal -c qemuimagetest_standalone bitbake core-image-sato -c qemuimagetest_standalone The new code runs it all in a single bitbake line: bitbake core-image-minimal core-image-sato -c qemuimagetest_standalone The expected bahavior is that the results should be the same, however, tests sometimes end up failing: Log data follows: | DEBUG: Executing python function do_qemuimagetest_standalone | NOTE: Run boot test in scenario sanity | Copying rootfs /srv/home/pokybuild/yocto-autobuilder-new/yocto-slave/nightly-x86-64/build/build/tmp/deploy/images/core-image-minimal-qemux86-64-20130319132914.rootfs.ext3 to /srv/home/pokybuild/yocto-autobuilder-new/yocto-slave/nightly-x86-64/build/build/tmp/work/qemux86_64-poky-linux/core-image-minimal/1.0-r0/qemuimagetest/tmp/core-image-minimal-qemux86-64-test.ext3 | Running xterm -display localhost:1 -e 'OE_TMPDIR=/srv/home/pokybuild/yocto-autobuilder-new/yocto-slave/nightly-x86-64/build/build/tmp /srv/home/pokybuild/yocto-autobuilder-new/yocto-slave/nightly-x86-64/build/scripts/runqemu /srv/home/pokybuild/yocto-autobuilder-new/yocto-slave/nightly-x86-64/build/build/tmp/deploy/images/bzImage-qemux86-64.bin /srv/home/pokybuild/yocto-autobuilder-new/yocto-slave/nightly-x86-64/build/build/tmp/work/qemux86_64-poky-linux/core-image-minimal/1.0-r0/qemuimagetest/tmp/core-image-minimal-qemux86-64-test.ext3 || /bin/sleep 60' & | Test_Info: Wait for qemu up... | Test_Info: Wait for qemu up... | Test_Info: No qemu process appeared to start, exiting | Test_Info: Boot Test FAIL | /srv/home/pokybuild/yocto-autobuilder-new/yocto-slave/nightly-x86-64/build/scripts/qemuimage-testlib: line 228: kill: No: invalid signal specification | /srv/home/pokybuild/yocto-autobuilder-new/yocto-slave/nightly-x86-64/build/scripts/qemuimage-testlib: line 229: kill: 22489: invalid signal specification | NOTE: Test Result for qemux86-64 core-image-minimal | NOTE: Testcase PASS FAIL NORESULT | NOTE: Boot 0 1 0 | DEBUG: Python function do_qemuimagetest_standalone finished | ERROR: Function failed: Some testcases fail, pls. check test result and test log!!! NOTE: recipe core-image-minimal-1.0-r0: task do_qemuimagetest_standalone: Failed ERROR: Task 0 (/srv/home/pokybuild/yocto-autobuilder-new/yocto-slave/nightly-x86-64/build/meta/recipes-core/images/core-image-minimal.bb, do_qemuimagetest_standalone) failed with exit code '1' NOTE: recipe core-image-sato-1.0-r0: task do_qemuimagetest_standalone: Succeeded NOTE: Tasks Summary: Attempted 221 tasks of which 219 didn't need to be rerun and 1 failed.
Richard is working with the sanity test. Once we get a clean sanity test, i will close this.
Richard has resolved this one