Comment 2 for bug 882933

Vish, that was amazing. Sure thing: as soon as added /tmp as the
lock_file path, the tests continued.

I'd love to document this someplace in the wiki... is there a "run
openstack's unit tests" page somewhere? If not, I can create one...

On Fri, Oct 28, 2011 at 10:42 AM, Vish Ishaya <email address hidden> wrote:
> Are you running from a shared folder?  I have noticed that python-
> lockfile just utterly fails in a shared folder for some reason.  I have
> to update nova/tests/fake_flags.py to set the lock_path to something
> like /tmp for it to pass if you are running in a shared folder.
>
> Vish
>
> On Oct 27, 2011, at 11:41 PM, Duncan McGreggor wrote:
>
>> Public bug reported:
>>
>> When attempting to run the test suite, I get as far as the first test in
>> the CloudTestCase
>> (nova.tests.api.ec2.test_cloud.CloudTestCase.test_ajax_console), and
>> then the tests just hang. I've attempted this twice, the second time
>> waiting a full 10 minutes before I hit ^C; same results each time.
>>
>> Not sure if there's supposed to be another component installed? Wasn't
>> able to discover any docs on running the unit tests, though I could
>> easily have overlooked something...
>>
>> Additional info:
>>  Python 2.7
>>  nova from git (75a3fbb21eebd4de8775b63c327d9d57859d090c)
>>  Ubuntu 11.10 (running in a virtual box instance on a MacBook Air)
>>
>> ** Affects: nova
>>     Importance: Undecided
>>         Status: New
>>
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>> Title:
>>  run_tests.sh stops at CloudTestCase test_ajax_console
>>
>> Status in OpenStack Compute (Nova):
>>  New
>>
>> Bug description:
>>  When attempting to run the test suite, I get as far as the first test
>>  in the CloudTestCase
>>  (nova.tests.api.ec2.test_cloud.CloudTestCase.test_ajax_console), and
>>  then the tests just hang. I've attempted this twice, the second time
>>  waiting a full 10 minutes before I hit ^C; same results each time.
>>
>>  Not sure if there's supposed to be another component installed? Wasn't
>>  able to discover any docs on running the unit tests, though I could
>>  easily have overlooked something...
>>
>>  Additional info:
>>    Python 2.7
>>    nova from git (75a3fbb21eebd4de8775b63c327d9d57859d090c)
>>    Ubuntu 11.10 (running in a virtual box instance on a MacBook Air)
>>
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>
> Title:
>  run_tests.sh stops at CloudTestCase test_ajax_console
>
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