Re: Tests failing from cockpit bots repo in check_journal_messages()

[Justin Stephenson]

Thanks a lot Matej, that is what I needed to know. I'll move forward with
one of those approaches.

-Justin

On Fri, May 22, 2020 at 2:32 PM Matej Marusak <mmarusak(a)redhat.com&gt; wrote:

>  Hey Justin,
>
>  Interestingly, I noticed the same issue just today in our CI. Did some
>  debugging in [1], but here is a quick summary.
>
>  Due to the new way of gaining and dropping administrative access in
>  Cockpit, this message crept up into every test.
>  We of course adjusted our tests, but due to locking down versions of
>  cockpit tests in external projects, this change was not propagated.
>  The best option is to bump up the version of tests to 219. I just did that
>  for two external projects that were affected, see for example [2].
>  If that would be impractical (possibly as it would break your tests in any
>  other way), then just calling `allow_authorize_journal_messages()` in every
>  affected test should be enough.
>
>  I checked how you run tests and you pick tests from rhel-8.2 branch [3],
>  which is now locked down. We don't have yet 8.3 branch, we use master for
>  that. I suggest using tag `219`, that should work.
>
>  Hope this helps!
>  MM
>
>  [1] https://github.com/cockpit-project/bots/pull/889
>  [2] https://github.com/cockpit-project/starter-kit/pull/317
>  [3]
>
> http://pkgs.devel.redhat.com/cgit/rpms/cockpit-session-recording/tree/tes...
>
>  On Fri, May 22, 2020 at 6:38 PM Justin Stephenson <jstephen(a)redhat.com&gt;
>  wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > I am validating some tests in cockpit-session-recording downstream in
> > dist-git, but they are failing when tests are being executed from the
> > cockpit bots repository:
> >
> > http://pastebin.test.redhat.com/867945
> >
> > A full test run can be found here:
> >
> >
> >
> https://jenkins.osci.redhat.com/job/rhel-8-pr-pipeline/4656/artifact/pack...
> >
> > I tried setting the environment variable below before running the tests
> > but it still fails with the same errors:
> >
> >   # export TEST_ALLOW_JOURNAL_MESSAGES=".*Permission denied.*"
> >
> > It could be the way we are running the tests is outdated:
> >
> >
> > http://pkgs.devel.redhat.com/cgit/rpms/cockpit-session-recording/tree/?h=...
> >
> > Is there a known fix for this, or can I avoid running these tests
> > completely when I am attempting to run our tests only.
> >
> > Thanks a lot.
> >
> > -Justin
> >
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