[Lenovo e320] Checkbox fails to detect the SD and SDHC - Manual test works fine

[Greg Vallande]

Checkbox Version: 0.13.1~ppa19.12.04

After a run with Checkbox on the e320, the card reader test for both SD and SDHC fail but appear to work manually. I ran just that portion of the test in an effort to debug and found these results:

ubuntu@201106-8229:~$ /usr/share/checkbox/scripts/removable_storage_test sdio
No removable drives were detected, aborting

ubuntu@201106-8229:~$ /usr/share/checkbox/scripts/removable_storage_test usb
No removable drives were detected, aborting

That's with the card inserted and a window displaying the drive and it's contents; can copy files to the drive.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04
Package: checkbox 0.13.3
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-12.21-generic-pae 3.2.2
Uname: Linux 3.2.0-12-generic-pae i686
ApportVersion: 1.91-0ubuntu1
Architecture: i386
Date: Fri Mar 2 11:15:44 2012
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS "Precise Pangolin" - Alpha i386 (20120201.1)
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: checkbox
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

[Greg Vallande (gvallande)]

Update: I ran the following per roadmr's suggestion to try and narrow down what is going on here:

import dbus

bus = dbus.SystemBus()
umo=bus.get_object('org.freedesktop.UDisks','/org/freedesktop/UDisks')
um = dbus.Interface(umo,'org.freedesktop.UDisks')

for dev in um.EnumerateDevices():
    do = bus.get_object('org.freedesktop.UDisks',dev)
    dp = dbus.Interface(do,dbus.PROPERTIES_IFACE)
    print dp.Get('org.freedesktop.UDisks.Device',"DeviceMountPaths")
    print dp.Get('org.freedesktop.UDisks.Device',"DeviceIsDrive")
    print dp.Get('org.freedesktop.UDisks.Device', "DriveConnectionInterface")

Output:

ubuntu@201106-8229:~$ python test.py
dbus.Array([], signature=dbus.Signature('s'), variant_level=1)
0
ata
dbus.Array([], signature=dbus.Signature('s'), variant_level=1)
1
ata
dbus.Array([], signature=dbus.Signature('s'), variant_level=1)
1
usb
dbus.Array([], signature=dbus.Signature('s'), variant_level=1)
0
usb
dbus.Array([dbus.String(u'/')], signature=dbus.Signature('s'), variant_level=1)
0
ata
dbus.Array([], signature=dbus.Signature('s'), variant_level=1)
0
ata
dbus.Array([], signature=dbus.Signature('s'), variant_level=1)
1
scsi
dbus.Array([dbus.String(u'/media/0E66-714A')], signature=dbus.Signature('s'), variant_level=1)
0
scsi

^^^^
So as we see here - the output reflects that the card reader is a SCSI device.

[Brendan Donegan (brendan-donegan)]

I'm curious to know what kind of icon displays on the launcher when the card is inserted? Is it an SD card icon or a plain old disk icon? If it's an SD card icon that would be good, as at least *someone* knows how to tell that an SD card reader is on the SCSI bus. If it's a plain old disk then maybe we're scuppered and need to rethink this test.

[Greg Vallande (gvallande)]

Hi Brendan,

    I just tested this and yes it appears as a regular disk not on the USB or sdio bus.

[Jeff Lane  (bladernr)]

On 03/03/2012 01:42 PM, Brendan Donegan wrote:
> I'm curious to know what kind of icon displays on the launcher when the
> card is inserted? Is it an SD card icon or a plain old disk icon? If
> it's an SD card icon that would be good, as at least *someone* knows how
> to tell that an SD card reader is on the SCSI bus. If it's a plain old
> disk then maybe we're scuppered and need to rethink this test.
>
> ** Changed in: checkbox (Ubuntu)
> Status: Triaged => Incomplete
>

I wonder if this is one of those systems that would cause other failures
like the storage_test script picking up the empty SD slot as a full
block device... we hates these machines... hates them we do.

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[TienFu Chen (ctf)]

This controller is
Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd.: RTS5116 PCI Express Card Reader
with module, sdhci-pci.
I like to give it a try but there's no system in Taipei adapted this controller.
This controller can be seen on several Lenovo systems as below.
https://hexr.canonical.com/device/18845/

I wonder if there's any UDisks property we can check to distinguish a persistent SCSI device and a removal one.

For now, we may consider adding "SCSI" category to the script, removable_storage_test. The testing in removable_storage_test won't take a long time, it's a file hash/copy test. I think it's ok to have an additional test running on the persistent SCSI device during the removable_storage_test test.

[Brendan Donegan (brendan-donegan)]

If we just add test for the scsi category then the test may pick up any hard disk, not necessarily one with an SD card reader on it. I want to have a look at the system to see if UDisks has some way of telling the difference, but currently it isn't accessible in the lab.

[Brendan Donegan (brendan-donegan)]

On 05/03/12 19:17, Jeff Lane wrote:
> On 03/03/2012 01:42 PM, Brendan Donegan wrote:
>> I'm curious to know what kind of icon displays on the launcher when the
>> card is inserted? Is it an SD card icon or a plain old disk icon? If
>> it's an SD card icon that would be good, as at least *someone* knows how
>> to tell that an SD card reader is on the SCSI bus. If it's a plain old
>> disk then maybe we're scuppered and need to rethink this test.
>>
>> ** Changed in: checkbox (Ubuntu)
>> Status: Triaged => Incomplete
>>
> I wonder if this is one of those systems that would cause other failures
> like the storage_test script picking up the empty SD slot as a full
> block device... we hates these machines... hates them we do.
>
Could be, but the storage_test was adapted to check the size before
running so this problem shouldn't occur anymore.

[Brendan Donegan (brendan-donegan)]

Hi Greg,

When you get a chance can you run this script as well?

import dbus

bus = dbus.SystemBus()

ud_mgr_obj = bus.get_object("org.freedesktop.UDisks", "/org/freedesktop/UDisks")
ud_mgr = dbus.Interface(ud_mgr_obj, "org.freedesktop.UDisks")

for dev in ud_mgr.EnumerateDevices():
    try:
        device_obj = bus.get_object("org.freedesktop.UDisks", dev)
        device_props = dbus.Interface(device_obj, dbus.PROPERTIES_IFACE)
        if device_props.Get('org.freedesktop.UDisks.Device', "DeviceIsDrive"):
            print device_props.Get('org.freedesktop.UDisks.Device', "DeviceFile")
            print device_props.Get('org.freedesktop.UDisks.Device', "DriveConnectionInterface")
            print device_props.Get('org.freedesktop.UDisks.Device', "DeviceIsRemovable")
            print device_props.Get('org.freedesktop.UDisks.Device','DriveMediaCompatibility')

I'm hoping DriveMediaCompatibility isn't a fibber and we can use that.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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