Comment 6 for bug 2056461

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Skia (hyask) wrote :

Okay, I've spend the last 24h digging into that issue, and here are my findings:
* I confirm I can only reproduce the issue with 6.8 kernels, not with 6.5. Just to be sure, I've also tested 6.8.0-32.32 in kernel team's PPA, and it has the issue too.
* Changing `--cpus` or `--ram-size` in `autopkgtest-virt-qemu` doesn't change anything.
* The code responsible for this in autopkgtest is a wonderful piece of black magic: most lives in `virt/autopkgtest-virt-qemu`, and the main part is the `runcmd` script being crafted in the `make_auxverb` function. The hanging is the `# wait until command has exited` loop, that never exits.

The most funny part is the new workaround that I found.
Run the following from your host that runs `autopkgtest`. Obvious change the port number depending on which free port was available for `autopkgtest`.
```
ssh -o UserKnownHostsFile=/dev/null -o StrictHostKeyChecking=no -p 10022 ubuntu@localhost stat /run/autopkgtest/shared/job\*/stdin
```
For some reason, `stat`ing that file in the testbed makes the loop exit and everything continues as normal, meaning you can use the test results normally.
I've seen this work at least 20 times on my machine, but I'd like someone else to confirm that this workaround indeed works.

This bug is becoming more and more interesting, stay tuned for more adventures!