Comment 4 for bug 1999554

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Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo (cascardo) wrote :

Hey, Po-Hsu Lin.

I marked this as a duplicate of #1999554, as I did some research on it before. So, many of these tests use a loop device and then try to clear it. The clear function will retry multiple times because udev may have a hold on the device. After a number of tries with some timeout, it will emit that WARNING because the loop device failed to clear. That is because udev still has a hold on it.

I debugged this and the reason for that is because udev will read efivars every once in a while (instead of caching the results), and reading efivar on those gcp instance types takes multiple seconds. That has been causing other issues, like nbd being busy as well and that test failing. I believe this should be fixed on udev.

Cascardo.