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Observation¶

Restoring from snapshot while being in the svirt serial terminal fails with "backend died: Virtio terminal and svirt serial terminal do not support send_key". See e.g.

• https://openqa.suse.de/tests/15938629/#step/secret_podman/1
• https://openqa.suse.de/tests/15938630/#step/secret_podman/1
• https://openqa.suse.de/tests/15938631/#step/secret_podman/1
• https://openqa.suse.de/tests/15938632/#step/secret_podman/1
• https://openqa.suse.de/tests/15938633/#step/secret_podman/1
• https://openqa.suse.de/tests/15938636/#step/secret_podman/1

Steps to reproduce¶

(untested), extracted from https://openqa.suse.de/tests/15938629/logfile?filename=autoinst-log.txt

• Cause a test failure while being in select_user_serial_terminal (and possibly also select_serial_terminal)
• When openQA loads from snapshot the error above should occur

Impact¶

• A already failing test will terminate catastrophically
• Reduces test coverage and would not reveal more test failures in the same test run

Problem¶

• openQA terminates prematurely

Suggestions¶

• Probably fix the backend

Workaround¶

• No workaround known

Further information¶

• https://progress.opensuse.org/issues/80776#note-6