[Summary]
While running "thunderbolt3/daisy-chain" test, the console shows following message.
It seems to me that the checkbox doesn't have permission to run the "dmesg -C" command.
-------------[ Running job 14 / 195. Estimated time left: unknown ]-------------
------[ Daisy-chain testing for Thunderbolt 3 storage and display device ]------
ID: com.canonical.certification::thunderbolt3/daisy-chain
Category: com.canonical.plainbox::disk
PURPOSE:
This test will check if your system can support daisy-chaining of a storage
and a monitor over Thunderbolt 3 port
STEPS:
1. Connect your Thunderbolt monitor to your systems
2. Connect and mount your Thunderbolt HDD to another Thunderbolt 3 port of the
monitor (you can do this with HDD first as well)
3. Click 'Test' to perform the storage test on the Thunderbolt HDD
VERIFICATION:
1. The verification for storage is automated, please select the result combine
with the result for the display.
2. Was the desktop displayed correctly on the Thunderbolt-connected screen?
Pick an action
=> press ENTER to continue
c => add a comment
s => skip this job
q => save the session and quit
[csq]:
... 8< -------------------------------------------------------------------------
dmesg: klogctl failed: Operation not permitted
Found the following mounted scsi partitions:
/dev/nvme3n1p1 : /media/u/HP P800 : None bits/s
--------------------
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/tmp/nest-ac2szmjv.f72a97acc7625ebde274d683a4ac49e1c7d149a2e1b42de99e910da270a15ed7/removable_storage_test", line 885, in <module>
sys.exit(main())
File "/tmp/nest-ac2szmjv.f72a97acc7625ebde274d683a4ac49e1c7d149a2e1b42de99e910da270a15ed7/removable_storage_test", line 733, in main
subprocess.check_output(['dmesg', '-C'])
File "/usr/lib/python3.6/subprocess.py", line 356, in check_output
**kwargs).stdout
File "/usr/lib/python3.6/subprocess.py", line 438, in run
output=stdout, stderr=stderr)
subprocess.CalledProcessError: Command '['dmesg', '-C']' returned non-zero exit status 1.
[Steps to reproduce]
1. Install the checkbox
2. Run the daisy-chain test or the following command
$ checkbox-cli run thunderbolt3/daisy-chain
[Expected result]
The dmesg buffer can be cleaned
[Actual result]
The console pops up following message
"dmesg: klogctl failed: Operation not permitted"
[Failure rate]
3/3
[Additional information]
SKU: RAT5-DVT1-C3X
Image: somerville-bionic-amd64-iso-hybrid-20190418-59
Manifest: canonical-oem-somerville-bionic-amd64-20190418-59+beaver-osp1-gendry+X41
system-manufacturer: Dell Inc.
system-product-name: Precision 7550
bios-version: 0.3.19
CPU: Genuine Intel(R) CPU 0000 @ 2.80GHz (16x)
GPU: 00:02.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: Intel Corporation Device [8086:3e9b] (rev 02)
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: NVIDIA Corporation Device [10de:1fb8] (rev a1)
kernel-version: 5.0.0-1038-oem-osp1
checkbox-ng: 1.7.0
checkbox-support: 0.44.0
com.canonical.ce:oem: 1.0
certification-client: 0.39.0
plainbox-provider-checkbox: 0.51.0
plainbox-provider-resource-generic: 0.43.0
plainbox-provider-sru: 1.16.0
plainbox-provider-tpm2: 1.12.0
Automatically attached