Bionic KVM test in checkbox-dev picks up wrong release name

[Ike Panhc]

The bionic checkbox installed from ppa:checkbox-dev/ppa for arm64 uses wrong release name and can not sync the image. This issue only happens on bionic with checkbox-dev/ppa.

DEBUG:root:Executing UVT KVM Test
WARNING:root:UVT_IMAGE_OR_SOURCE is not set
DEBUG:root:uvt-simplestreams-libvirt sync
ERROR:root:Command uvt-simplestreams-libvirt sync release=Bionic Beaver arch=arm64 returnd a code of 1
ERROR:root: STDOUT:
ERROR:root: STDERR: Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/uvt-simplestreams-libvirt", line 27, in <module>
    uvtool.libvirt.simplestreams.main()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/uvtool/libvirt/simplestreams.py", line 329, in main
    args.func(args)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/uvtool/libvirt/simplestreams.py", line 266, in main_sync
    ['datatype=image-downloads', 'ftype=disk1.img'] + args.filters
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/simplestreams/filters.py", line 62, in get_filters
    flist.append(ItemFilter(f, noneval=noneval))
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/simplestreams/filters.py", line 29, in __init__
    raise ValueError("Unable to parse expression %s" % content)
ValueError: Unable to parse expression Beaver

[Rod Smith (rodsmith)]

Verified on AMD64 as well as ARM64.

[Rod Smith (rodsmith)]

I've submitted an MR to fix this bug; however, there are at least two follow-on problems:

1) The uvtool-libvirt package is only half-configured upon system
   deployment. This can be fixed manually by re-installing it or
   doing "sudo apt dist-upgrade"; and
2) Bug #1932550 is causing failures because the test can't SSH in to
   the KVM session;

The uvtool-libvirt manual workaround is ugly and the underlying issue should be corrected. Bug #1932550 is proving difficult to resolve, and its fix may interact with an in-flight MR from jocave (https://code.launchpad.net/~jocave/plainbox-provider-checkbox/+git/plainbox-provider-checkbox/+merge/403636), which fixes an unrelated problem, but touches code that may need to be changed. (Or not; the solution might lie elsewhere, like in the virtual machine configuration.)

All of which is to say: The bug is now fixed, but the test will still fail on Bionic. See bug #1932550 for further developments....

[Ike Panhc (ikepanhc)]

Thanks Rod, checkbox run on 23th Jun with checkbox-dev/ppa works fine. Thanks.