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by Milosz Wasilewski

Hi, I upgraded my LAVA instance to 2025.04 yesterday I skipped one release and the upgrade was from 2024.09. Most of the jobs I run in use deploy-to-flasher with custom script handling the board flashing. Up until 2024.09 (I don't know about 2025.02) "downloads" URLs resulted in all files stored in a flat directory. My flashing scripts made use of this "feature". In 2025.04 this has changed. This commit: https://gitlab.com/lava/lava/-/commit/4d9f0ebdae9ca53baf6633f4a35e716183bd2… makes the files stored in separate directories. It feels like a step in a right direction but it broke my flashing scripts. To make a quick fix I did this in the beginning of the script: DOWNLOAD_DIRS=$(find . -maxdepth 1 -mindepth 1 -type d -printf '%f ') for d in $DOWNLOAD_DIRS; do FILE_TO_COPY=$(find ./$d -maxdepth 1 -mindepth 1 -type f -printf '%f') ln "$PWD/$d/$FILE_TO_COPY" "$PWD/$FILE_TO_COPY" done This isn't great but it solves the issue for now. After a short discussion with Chase we came to conclusion that solution that looks "more correct" is to implement support for "uniquify" for "download" URLs. Chase sent a patch here: https://gitlab.com/lava/lava/-/merge_requests/2795 This should be available in the next release. I hope this message helps someone with similar issues :) Best Regards, Milosz

4 months

Download to worker mid-test

by Michael Peddie

Hi, I am trying to write a test to conditionally extract files from a zip file for use in some scripts, e.g. unzip the file, copy/move the files I need out, remove the zip file and directory created from unzipping it. However, the zip file size exceeds the disk space of the DUT. I have considered doing something like a MultiNode job, where the DUT is booted as well as a QEMU instance, and the file is downloaded and extracted on the QEMU and moved onto the DUT, but I would prefer not to do that if possible. Is there any way to download the zip file mid-test to the worker instead, extract the files I need, and move them onto the DUT? Ideally no modifications to the code of LAVA, but if that is necessary then I can figure out an interim solution and come back to it later. Regards, Michael

5 months, 1 week

LAVA LDAP mirror groups

by Michael Peddie

Hi, I am trying to get LDAP working in my LAVA instance, and have managed to get logging into it working. The issue comes when I try to use Django's MIRROR_GROUPS setting. I am already aware that it is not built into LAVA to be configurable, and I have already taken steps to add the relevant lines in lava_server/settings/common.py to make it work (initialize to None, values.get() in the update method, then run eval on the value in the LDAP if section), but it still won't work. All other required settings are clearly working just fine, and I can even set USER_FLAGS_BY_GROUP just fine, but I would prefer to mirror certain groups that users are members of and assign permissions to the groups. Do I need to pre-create the groups before logging in to LAVA or am I missing something else/doing something wrong? Original common.py source: https://gitlab.com/lava/lava/-/blob/master/lava_server/settings/common.py

6 months, 1 week

Can't do Linux auto login from LAVA job

by Ramasamy, Rajeshkumar

Hi All, I am trying to setup LAVA and execute test cases. I am using Intel x86-64 machine. LAVA able to boot the Linux without any issues, but it is stuck just before login prompt. I am able to boot the machine with manual procedure. Pls find the log below. [[0;32m OK [0m] Started [0;1;39mBerkeley Internet Name Domain (DNS)[0m. [[0;32m OK [0m] Started [0;1;39mPostfix Mail Transport Agent[0m. [[0;32m OK [0m] Reached target [0;1;39mMulti-User System[0m. [[0;32m OK [0m] Reached target [0;1;39mHost and Network Name Lookups[0m. Starting [0;1;39mRecord Runlevel Change in UTMP[0m... [[0;32m OK [0m] Finished [0;1;39mRecord Runlevel Change in UTMP[0m. Linux Update 6 intel-x86-64 ttyUSB0 <Login prompt print expected here ("intel-x86-64 login:"), but not displayed on the log> bootloader-interrupt timed out after 280 seconds end: 2.3.2 bootloader-interrupt (duration 00:04:40) [common] case: bootloader-interrupt case_id: 185 definition: lava duration: 280.00 extra: ... level: 2.3.2 namespace: common result: fail health check yaml file snippet: - boot: timeout: minutes: 5 method: ipxe commands: nfs failure_retry: 3 prompts: - '[a-zA-Z0-9\-\_]+@[a-zA-Z0-9\-\_]+:.*?#' auto_login: login_prompt: "intel-x86-64 login:" username: root password_prompt: "password:" password: root login_commands: - cat /proc/cmdline - cd / - ls - test: failure_retry: 3 timeout: minutes: 5 definitions: - repository: metadata: format: Lava-Test Test Definition 1.0 name: smoke-tests-basic description: "Basic system test command for Linaro Ubuntu images" run: steps: - printenv Thanks Rajesh

7 months

Can't do Linux login from LAVA job

by Ramasamy, Rajeshkumar

7 months, 1 week

How to start docker container with privileged mode which used for postprocessing artifacts

by Sai Ashrith Sathujoda

We have a requirement for some test cases that the artifacts need to be modified (negative scenario) in order to verify some scenarios. we are currently using postprocess under deploy action for this purpose. As of part postprocess, we need to mount partitions of disk image and make some changes based on the requirement. However, we are unable to mount the partitions using losetup command. docker: image: debian:bookworm steps: - apt-get update - loop_dev=$(losetup -P -f --show image.wic) - echo $loop_dev The job failed with below error, losetup -P -f --show image.wic losetup: cannot find an unused loop device It looks like the docker container needs root privileges. It works when we run locally with "privileged:true". Is there any way we can pass "privileged: true" option to docker image through LAVA job definitions? Any inputs regarding this matter are highly appreciated.

7 months, 2 weeks

How to verify secure boot negative test cases

by shivanand.kunijadar＠toshiba-tsip.com

Hello, I'm trying to verify secure boot on LAVA lab, I've verified the positive case of secure boot and confirmed the secure boot is enabled from the boot logs (kernel-start-message = "EFI stub: UEFI Secure Boot is enabled."). Next, I would like to verify the negative test case as well by tampering the secure boot image where I expect the image boot shall fail. Is there way in LAVA to make the job complete(e.g. waiting for specific message in boot logs like "Can't find image information. ") even though the image fails to boot on the DUT? Ref. https://lava.ciplatform.org/scheduler/job/1236667#L81

7 months, 4 weeks

concurrent job execution

by sweta.ghosh＠nagarro.com

Hi, I am not able to submit multiple jobs on my single node lava server, currently even 1 job is running the second job waits till the 1st job is completed. I have tried to increase the job limit of my worker to 3 via lava Admin UI but still I cannot run 2 jobs in parallel. Could you please let me know how can I increase the no. jobs.

8 months, 2 weeks

Securing LAVA Setup

by Michael Peddie

Hi, I have been looking into how to secure LAVA, as so far it's just been learning how it works. There's the obvious http/https stuff, and in the documentation mentions firewalls for remote workers (which we'll be using anyways). We already have things in place for physical security and plans on how to improve, so no worries there. Is there anything not covered in the documentation that should be considered and how could we go about putting that into place? Best regards, Michael

9 months

What does the gdb boot method do?

by 叶轩杨

I saw a file 'lava-dispatcher/actions/boot/gdb.py' in the LAVA source code, which seems to define a gdb method in action->boot. But I didn't find a description of it in the LAVA documentation. The document I checked is `https://docs.lavasoftware.org/lava/actions-boot.html?highlight=boot#boot-action-reference`. Reading the source code may lead to some misunderstandings and is time-consuming. I hope someone who knows its function can explain to me what this new method does. Thank you very much!

9 months, 3 weeks

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