CLI: Check if there are jobs running
I recently automated the installation of updates on my openQA development instance. The goal was to make the instance updates itself over night, but only if it is idle, i.
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openQA: Could not configure /dev/net/tun (tap3): Operation not permitted
I recently encountered a new interesting openQA issue:
[2023-03-13T14:18:22.651705+01:00] [warn] [pid:18929] !!! : qemu-system-x86_64: -netdev tap,id=qanet0,ifname=tap3,script=no,downscript=no: could not configure /dev/net/tun (tap3): Operation not permitted This is an error that you likely are encountering on a older openQA instance, after you setup multimachine jobs but haven’t used them in a while.
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Safely clone a job on a production instance
When developing new openQA tests you will have to run a lot of verification and debug test runs. This is why I typically encourage people to do all openQA testing on their own instances, to prevent spamming of the production instances.
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Reviewing openQA jobs with openqa-revtui
The openqa-revtui tool is a neat CLI utility for helping you review openQA jobs and job groups. It is part of the openqa-mon project, which has grown in the last years and now consists on more than the job monitoring tool itself.
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openQA: emulated aarch64 worker
Are you in dire need of an aarch64 worker on your own openQA instance, but no suitable hardware lying around? If speed is not your main concern, then don’t worry - you can just enable a qemu-emulated aarch64 worker on your openQA instance (probably x86_64).
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openqa: asset download request but no domains passlisted
Symptom
When posting a job using , you see an error message of the following kind:
$ openqa-cli api -X POST isos ... 403 Forbidden Asset download requested but no domains passlisted!
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openQA and dehydrated
In this blog post I’m gonna show you, how you can enable https for your openQA instance using dehydrated and the internal SUSE CA. The same procedure should also work for Let’s Encrypt.
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Fix the "Wrong version of perltidy" issue in tools/tidy
A commen error when running tools/tidy in the openSUSE/SLES tests repository for openQA is the following error:
Wrong version of perltidy. Found '20211027', expected '20211029'. This indicated a mismatch of the found vs.
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Extract SCHEDULE from an openQA job
Then using openqa-clone-job (and derivates) one can use the SCHEDULE variable to clone a test run with a custom set of test modules. This is particular useful, when developing a new test case and you need a verification run with e.
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Clean empty job groups in openQA
In this blog post I present you a small script, which can help you to remove empty job groups from your own openQA instance. This is helpful if you have a development instance with a lot of job groups, that you never use.
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