[qmtest] test failures on Red Hat 9

[Mark Mitchell]

On Fri, 2003-08-29 at 10:03, Stefan Seefeld wrote:
> Danny R. Faught wrote:
> > I don't get a clean "make check" on Red Hat 9 with CVS sources I updated 
> >  this morning.  I'm running python 2.2.2.  Are the tests expected to 
> > pass in this configuration?
> > 
> > Both check-rsh and check-threads hang.  The other test suites pass. 
> > Here's the output from check-rsh:
> > 
> > -------------------------------------------------------------
> > cd qm && PYTHONPATH=. /usr/bin/python2 -O ./setup.py -q build
> > warning: build_py: package init file './test/classes/__init__.py' not 
> > found (or not a regular file)
> > warning: build_py: package init file './test/classes/__init__.py' not 
> > found (or not a regular file)
> > rm -f tests/QMTest/rsh_target
> > qm/test/qmtest -D tests create-target \
> >                 -a host=localhost -a remote_shell=ssh \
> >     -T tests/QMTest/rsh_target \
> >     rsh rsh_target.RSHTarget
> > qm/test/qmtest -D tests run -T tests/QMTest/rsh_target \
> >  \
> > -c qmtest_path=`pwd`/qm/test/qmtest \
> >     -c qmtest_target=`pwd`/tests/QMTest/rsh_target
> > Couldn't establish connection to proxy: Network is unreachable
> > ssh_exchange_identification: Connection closed by remote host
> 
> While I was able to run 'make check' successfully on a RH8 box, I
> noticed that during the 'rsh' tests I was frequently asked to type
> my password into a tk window that was popping up !
> Is there some documentation that explains how to prepare the
> environment so these tests can be performed non-interactively
> (a typical 'nightly build' scenario) ?

Not at present.

The usual solution is to use .rhosts, or use SSH.

It may be that the best option is to remove the RSH testing from "make
check" so that it is not run by default.

Thoughts?

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Mark Mitchell
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