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Bug 980357

Summary:	[RFE] Check for "Press (any key\|enter) to continue" when systems fail to boot
Product:	[Retired] Beaker	Reporter:	Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan>
Component:	lab controller	Assignee:	beaker-dev-list
Status:	CLOSED DUPLICATE	QA Contact:	tools-bugs <tools-bugs>
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Version:	0.13	CC:	aigao, asaha, dcallagh, llim, qwan, rmancy
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Description Nick Coghlan 2013-07-02 07:25:01 UTC

If a system has a hardware problem that causes it to emit a "Press any key to continue" message during boot, this will show up in Beaker as a string of aborted jobs. If those jobs aren't using appropriately marked distros (see bug 654299), then the system won't be automatically marked as broken.

This proposal is to add a new heuristic for automatically marking systems as broken:

1. The recipe is terminated by the external watchdog
2. The system doesn't reboot at all (install_start is never called on the lab controller)
3. The console log contains an entry matching one of the patterns:
"Press any key to continue"
"Press [Ee]nter to continue"
"Press <(.*)> to continue"

Such a heuristic could also be tweaked to detect the PXE boot menu coming up (indicating the machine isn't properly booting from the network).

This should be configurable in a similar fashion to the PANIC_REGEX definition (BOOT_HANG_REGEX, perhaps?).

Comment 1 Nick Coghlan 2013-09-03 03:49:33 UTC

Anaconda may also hang with its text UI displayed to ask a question. This shows up in the console log as an ASCII-art display window, containing at least an ASCII art "OK" box and a bottom row of instructions indicating how to navigate the controls with the keyboard.

Comment 2 Dan Callaghan 2014-01-22 23:05:12 UTC


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 952661 ***