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In "boot_to_desktop" on ARM the test spams F2s on boot to enter some boot menu:

sub tianocore_enter_menu {
    # we need to reduce this waiting time as much as possible
    while (!check_screen('tianocore-mainmenu', 0, no_wait => 1)) {
        send_key 'f2';
        sleep 0.1;
    }
}

(from bootloader_setup.pm in the opensuse test distribution)

Since the last deployment this is now too slow so the menu isn't entered:

• Last good: https://openqa.suse.de/tests/3507012
• First bad: https://openqa.suse.de/tests/3538523

It seems to fail consistently since the first bad run. We've been debugging on openqaworker-arm-2 so some of the subsequent results just failed because of the debugging.

strace shows that some IPC writes from isotovideo are quite slow:

[pid 29156] write(4, "{\"json_cmd_token\":\"VEowjWrX\",\"ret\":{\"failed_screens\":[{\"candidates\":[{\"area\":[{\"h\":56,\"result\":\"fail\",\"similarity\":0,\"w\":210,\"x\":804,\"y\":600}],\"error\":1.0,\"needle\":{\"area\":[{\"height\":56,\"margin\":50,\"t"..., 6457775 <unfinished ...>

This slowliness is also visible in the os-autoinst log (compare the last good run the bad run).

We reverted https://github.com/os-autoinst/os-autoinst/commit/ec50b8785ff35be3c76f5323708a34ad64fd3d0e on openqaworker-arm-2 and the problem was gone: https://openqa.suse.de/tests/3538730

So something in that change causes a slowdown in the command processing.