hdd_parking job failed due to /usr/sbin/hdapsd does not exist

[Po-Hsu Lin]

While testing 12.04.5, the hdd_parking job failed with the following error message:
ubuntu@201210-11859:/usr/lib/2013.com.canonical.certification:checkbox/bin$ ./hdd_parking
Starting HDD protection test - move the system around on all axis. No particular force should be required.
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "./hdd_parking", line 70, in <module>
    sys.exit(main())
  File "./hdd_parking", line 67, in main
    return hdaps_test(parser.parse_args().timeout)
  File "./hdd_parking", line 47, in hdaps_test
    universal_newlines=True)
  File "/usr/lib/python3.2/subprocess.py", line 745, in __init__
    restore_signals, start_new_session)
  File "/usr/lib/python3.2/subprocess.py", line 1361, in _execute_child
    raise child_exception_type(errno_num, err_msg)
OSError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '/usr/sbin/hdapsd'

The hdapsd package needs to be installed before start testing, maybe we should consider about adding this package into our dependency list.

[Po-Hsu Lin (cypressyew)]

After hdapsd installed 201210-11859:
ubuntu@201210-11859:~$ hdapsd -d /dev/sda
Tue Sep 9 02:04:08 2014: Starting hdapsd
Tue Sep 9 02:04:08 2014: Could not find a suitable interface

And no hdaps module could be found in lsmod output.

So the job still not working, from "apt-cache show", it seems that maybe this package only works for IBM/Lenovo ThinkPads and Apple iBooks/PowerBooks, if that's true, we will never be able to test it with Dell / HP laptops.

ubuntu@201210-11859:~$ apt-cache show hdapsd
Package: hdapsd
Priority: optional
Section: universe/misc
Installed-Size: 128
Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers <email address hidden>
Original-Maintainer: Evgeni Golov <email address hidden>
Architecture: amd64
Version: 1:20090401-2
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.7)
Recommends: tp-smapi-dkms | tp-smapi-source
Filename: pool/universe/h/hdapsd/hdapsd_20090401-2_amd64.deb
Size: 19462
MD5sum: d383b6565cd32918d08583fadf0e380e
SHA1: baab6a94e82a3ea14f6effb474efd79219d8487f
SHA256: 21fcec46cb8b74dfe827ba7e005323b98a86916573ed015fb50b97f6b8d9037e
Description-en: HDAPS daemon for IBM/Lenovo ThinkPads and Apple iBooks/PowerBooks
 This is a disk protection user-space daemon. It monitors the acceleration
 values through the HDAPS or AMS interface and automatically initiates disk
 head parking if a fall or sliding of the laptop is detected.

 It is recommended that you use this daemon with the hdaps module provided
 by tp-smapi rather the one in the kernel, as this will save you a bit
 power and will work on a wider range of ThinkPads.
Description-md5: 936305df0dc868c29bbd040a692448ff
Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug
Origin: Ubuntu

[Daniel Manrique (roadmr)]

The hdd parking test only works with hdapsd, so you're correct that we can't test systems that don't use that to park the disk.

The accelerometer test *does* work with HP systems but it's a separate job.

I'll check to ensure we add hdapsd to our dependencies and make this bug about that.

[Po-Hsu Lin (cypressyew)]

I will need to double check with a recently-testing Lenovo laptop tomorrow, IIRC it passed with this without extra package installation, maybe it's a default package for Lenovo systems.

And yes, accelerometer job works with HP systems.

Therefore I think we could conclude that even a Dell / HP system comes with a working accelerometer, the grey list note for HDD protection still needed, since they don't have a corresponding protection mechanism like HDAPS.

[Daniel Manrique (roadmr)]

OK, did three things:

- Added hdapsd to dependencies for the provider package
- Added hdapsd to the job's requirements (won't even run if hdapsd is not installed)
- Fixed the script so it exits with a proper error message instead of a horrible backtrace and exception.

[Po-Hsu Lin (cypressyew)]

Yeah, the Lenovo does not have this package installed as well.
Thanks for the fix.