On Fri, 13 Jan 2017 11:07:13 +0100, Kamil Paral <kparal@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I'd consider focusing on using checkisomd5 as the main way to test if
FMW
works ok. First the offline one and then online one running from the
flash
drive before bootup.
That's actually a very good advice for the test case. As Martin showed
me recently, running simply "checkisomd5 --verbose /dev/sdX" after
you've written the image to /dev/sdX is actually a fully satisfactory
verification that the image was written properly (or you could also do
"cmp /dev/sdX image.iso"). Of course booting the thumb stick and letting
it verify consistency from the syslinux menu is a bonus point.
There's a potential issue here. Sometimes it can happen that the written
partitions are automounted and some filesystem metadata are changed
before unplugging (at least that's my guess). This happened to me
several times during the last cycle, and the checksum verification then
fails (but the installation proceeds completely OK). This happens also
on Windows, according to Martin, and it's quite difficult to prevent it.
We should mention it in the test case, but I'm not sure what advice we
can give. We don't want to of course handwaive such issues completely,
because they can also mean some data writing corruption (I found one
such bug a few months back, and it was FMW's fault).
If the integrity check passes, all other errors are either in the
compose
process or the packages. Anything above this I would consider testing
the
actual written image, not FMW.
Yes. In our particular case, in the "Default boot and install" section,
we also test default installation (anaconda), so I guess we can't
optimize there. But for that particular test case, the offline/online
verification should be enough, I believe.
I think I have fixed the issue on Windows. However, I think there's still
a possibility the OS will mess with your drive if you reinsert it to the
system. Especially on Mac, where I have worked around this by blocking all
media mounting while FMW is running.
To be sure this doesn't happen and to included the case in our test, I
proposed using the online media check too.
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