sosreport job skipped because sosreport not installed

[Jeff Lane ]

From a recent test submission:

miscellanea/sosreport test untested job cannot be started: resource expression "executable.name == 'sosreport'" evaluates to false

But when I look in the packages listing, sosreport is definitely there:

sosreport 3.4-1~ubuntu16.04.1

And if I check a different, but similarly deployed system, I see that the version is correct:

sosreport:
  Installed: 3.4-1~ubuntu16.04.1

And the executable is, indeed, called sosreport:'

bladernr@galactica:~$ dpkg -L sosreport |grep bin
/usr/bin
/usr/bin/sosreport

[Jeff Lane  (bladernr)]

Turns out the resource job fails to follow symlinks:

bladernr@galactica:~/development/git/plainbox-provider-resource/jobs$ find -H $(echo "$PATH" | sed -e 's/:/ /g') -maxdepth 1 -type f -executable -printf "name: %f\nlocation: %h\n\n" |grep sosreport
bladernr@galactica:~/development/git/plainbox-provider-resource/jobs$ ll /usr/bin/sosreport
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 28 Apr 26 08:38 /usr/bin/sosreport -> ../share/sosreport/sosreport

As you can see, the command used by the executable resource job doesn't find sosreport, and digging deeper, we see that it's actually a symlink to /usr/share/sosreport/sosreport.

[Jeff Lane  (bladernr)]

Looks like simply chaging -type to -xtype will include symlinks in the $PATH as well as actual binaries.