On 10/20/2010 08:55 AM, Feng Yang wrote: > If a connection and stdin are idle for more than timeout seconds, > then the connection is silently closed. withou this paramter, > nc will listen forever for a connection. This may cause our test > hang. redmine issue: > http://redmine.englab.nay.redhat.com/issues/show/6947 > Add -w parameter should fix this issue. > > Signed-off-by: Feng Yang <fyang@xxxxxxxxxx> > --- > client/tests/kvm/kvm_utils.py | 2 +- > 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) > > diff --git a/client/tests/kvm/kvm_utils.py b/client/tests/kvm/kvm_utils.py > index a51c857..526d38d 100644 > --- a/client/tests/kvm/kvm_utils.py > +++ b/client/tests/kvm/kvm_utils.py > @@ -733,7 +733,7 @@ def remote_login(client, host, port, username, password, prompt, linesep="\n", > elif client == "telnet": > cmd = "telnet -l %s %s %s" % (username, host, port) > elif client == "nc": > - cmd = "nc %s %s" % (host, port) > + cmd = "nc %s %s -w %s" % (host, port, timeout) > else: > logging.error("Unknown remote shell client: %s" % client) > return I don't understand how remote_login() can stall here. kvm_utils._remote_login() doesn't rely on nc's self-termination. If no shell prompt is available after 10 seconds, nc is forcefully terminated and _remote_login() fails. If it somehow stalls this might indicate a bug somewhere. -- 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