Since os.rename requires that the file is in the same partition with the dest directory, we would get a python OSError if the result directory is mounted to a nfs server (or different partition or something else alike). the traceback would be like: Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/local/kvm/kvm-test/bin/autotest", line 52, in ? options.log) File "/usr/local/kvm/kvm-test/bin/job.py", line 1274, in runjob myjob.complete(0) File "/usr/local/kvm/kvm-test/bin/job.py", line 798, in complete os.rename(self.state_file, dest) OSError: [Errno 18] Invalid cross-device link Signed-off-by: Cao, Chen <kcao@xxxxxxxxxx> --- client/bin/job.py | 2 +- 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) diff --git a/client/bin/job.py b/client/bin/job.py index a1c07cc..ebfb3a3 100755 --- a/client/bin/job.py +++ b/client/bin/job.py @@ -938,7 +938,7 @@ class base_job(object): """Clean up and exit""" # We are about to exit 'complete' so clean up the control file. dest = os.path.join(self.resultdir, os.path.basename(self.state_file)) - os.rename(self.state_file, dest) + shutil.move(self.state_file, dest) self.harness.run_complete() self.disable_external_logging() -- 1.6.0.6 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kvm" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html