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Acceptance criteria¶

• AC1: ipmi tests have access to the serial port for forwarding output, e.g. within a post_fail_hook during installation

Suggestions¶

• Setup an IPMI worker connection to a local openQA development environment
• Make a test fail explicitly in early stages and observe if the post_fail_hook is able to access the serial port, e.g. in script_run calls
• Maybe by chance it just works now, if not - try to understand why it works in later steps, e.g. https://openqa.suse.de/tests/1603718#step/logs_from_installation_system/9 but not in earlier steps
• Adjust test code accordingly, e.g. if we need to activate a console or something

Further details¶

‎[‎22 Sep 2017 08:58:32‏] ‎<‎okurz‎>‎ https://openqa.suse.de/tests/1181415#step/partitioning_firstdisk/4 looks to me as if the second hard disk needs to be unselected at first now?
‎[‎22 Sep 2017 09:01:26‏] ‎<‎coolo‎>‎ there are quite some SLES on it :)
‎[‎22 Sep 2017 09:02:46‏] ‎<‎okurz‎>‎ as in: a bug…
‎[‎22 Sep 2017 09:03:11‏] ‎<‎coolo‎>‎ do we have yast logs? if so, shot :)
‎[‎22 Sep 2017 09:03:37‏] ‎<‎okurz‎>‎ we don't
‎[‎22 Sep 2017 09:08:57‏] ‎<‎okurz‎>‎ coolo: idea why the serial output is missing? can we improve the debugging about serial port forwarding on ipmi?
‎[‎22 Sep 2017 09:11:20‏] ‎<‎coolo‎>‎ okurz: I don't think we even try serial port forwarding on installation
‎[‎22 Sep 2017 09:15:53‏] ‎<‎coolo‎>‎ okurz: if we start installation with ssh=1 we could open a connection
‎[‎22 Sep 2017 09:16:31‏] ‎<‎okurz‎>‎ I guess you mean sshd=1 ?
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[‎22 Sep 2017 09:17:27‏] ‎<‎coolo‎>‎ anyway, tests/installation/install_and_reboot.pm:            use_ssh_serial_console;
‎[‎22 Sep 2017 09:17:33‏] ‎<‎coolo‎>‎ this might too late for your failures
‎[‎22 Sep 2017 09:18:05‏] ‎<‎coolo‎>‎ it was good enough on sp3 when installation just worked :)
‎[‎22 Sep 2017 09:18:30‏] ‎<‎okurz‎>‎ ssh=1 -> start installation and wait for connection over ssh to conduct installation over ssh, sshd=1 -> just spawn a ssh server in the installer system, as we do for zVM where we conduct the installation over VNC

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