[Bug 1317358] Re: qemu: race condition on stdin reading

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This bug was fixed in the package autopkgtest - 2.16.2

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autopkgtest (2.16.2) unstable; urgency=medium


  * Support ":native" dependencies.
  * Add LXC runner test case for running as different user.
  * Add QEMU runner test case for performance and integrity of copying (1000
    files with 100 kB each).
  * copyup/down: Clean up cp process on timeout, to fix eternal hang.
  * adt-virt-qemu: Disable shared downtmp. For bigger source trees 9p in
    current QEMU is way too slow (in the magnitude of 2 MB/s, and max'ing out
    CPU usage), so we can't use it directly as a normal file system.
  * Revert "Don't extract/build source packages in shared downtmp", due to
    above change. This stops penalizing other runners with extra source tree
    copies.
  * VirtSubproc: Clean up auxverb processes on timeout.
  * adt-run: Stop testbed on TERM and QUIT signals, to avoid leaving stale
    schroot/qemu/LXC processes around when e. g. stopping a job from Jenkins.
  * adt-virt-qemu: Fix runcmd to make the command's stdin actually look and
    behave like a pipe, instead of reading directly from the "stdin" file. The
    latter leads to commands exiting prematurely when hitting the file's EOF.
    (LP: #1317358)
  * Convert one of the QEMU tests from source tree to dsc, to cover that case
    as well.
  * Add test case for QEMU with --apt-source (using libpng).
  * adt-virt-qemu: Create eofcat in /bin instead of the shared /autopkgtest
    mount, as running it from the latter again triggers the "invalid numerical
    value" bug with 9p from older QEMU versions.
  * adt-buildvm-ubuntu-cloud: Purge some unnecessary services to speed up boot
    time a bit.
  * @builddeps@ now includes build-essential, not just make. (LP: #1317357)
  * Make -s/--shell-fail start a shell on failed builds as well.
    (LP: #1317055)

 -- Martin Pitt <mpitt at debian.org>  Fri, 09 May 2014 10:32:27 +0200

** Changed in: autopkgtest (Ubuntu)
       Status: Fix Committed => Fix Released

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Title:
  qemu: race condition on stdin reading

Status in “autopkgtest” package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released

Bug description:
  When copying files back and forth, adt-virt-qemu sometimes fails with

  adt-run: @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ ubtree ubtree0
  tar: Unexpected EOF in archive
  tar: Unexpected EOF in archive
  tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now

  
  Quick workaround for current users: In virt-subproc/adt-virt-qemu, bump this:

  # give the stdin reading some head start
  time.sleep(0.1)

  to 0.5 or even 1. That'll make the whole thing noticeably slower
  though, but (mostly) avoid the tar error.

  For fixing this for good the "runcmd" needs to be fixed to present the
  copied data from the host as an actual pipe instead of a plain file.

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