action #49589
closed[functional][y] DESKTOP variable changes on s390, makes it unreliable
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Description
Observation¶
In this SUT we have DESKTOP=gnome in the settings, we do install gnome, but yet DESKTOP returns textmode. This is a workaround, see here : https://github.com/os-autoinst/os-autoinst-distri-opensuse/blob/ddaee0839089ecd4d0ded00425ce503fa2fb04cd/products/sle/main.pm#L142
A better solution imho would be to change this value directly in first_boot (and only within a function) so we don't change the variable everywhere. If we cannot rely on variables, it makes it really hard to predict anything.
openQA test in scenario sle-15-SP1-Installer-DVD-s390x-allmodules+allpatterns@s390x-kvm-sle12 fails in
installation_overview
For s390x we change DESKTOP variable as a part of hack, as on s390x we cannot connect over VNC in the installed system.
Proposal¶
As mentioned above, we should try to introduce workaround in place instead of main.pm. It might introduce some regressions if we use DESKTOP variable.
To see if it breaks any further tests, we can use default test suite: https://openqa.suse.de/tests/latest?distri=sle&flavor=Server-DVD&arch=s390x&test=default&version=12-SP5&machine=s390x-kvm-sle12#settings
Test suite description¶
Maintainer: jrauch
Perform an installation enabling all modules and selecting all patterns.
This test suite always registers to have access to all modules.
Reproducible¶
Fails since (at least) Build 193.1 (current job)
Expected result¶
Last good: 192.1 (or more recent)
Further details¶
Always latest result in this scenario: latest