[fedora-arm] Enabled some openQA desktop tests on aarch64
Hey folks! Just a heads up that I merged a branch I've had lying around
for weeks that enables *some* of the openQA desktop tests on the
aarch64 Workstation image.
I left out some with known issues. desktop_notifications_postinstall
needs to boot to runlevel 3, which is actually a bit tricky because of
UEFI - we don't get the boot menu with a usable timeout and the trick
we use to work around that on x86_64 (where we run the tests on BIOS)
doesn't work on UEFI because the setting is in the UEFI vars which are
not part of the main disk image.
To fix this I think I need to have the 'image deploy' test upload its
UEFI vars disk image and have the desktop_notifications_postinstall
test attach that as well as the main disk image, but I need to look
into the ins and outs of that a bit and this is my last work day of the
year, so I'll do it next year.
The desktop_login test is generally fragile (things tending to get
stuck or time out), but if it gets that far, it *always* fails when it
tests locking the screen; on aarch64 this seems to cause the VM to
permanently stop updating the display, or something. Again I haven't
had time to look into this, and I want to enable the other tests
without waiting for it.
The desktop_browser test is also failing, but I left that in because
it's not a test bug, it's a distro bug. Firefox builds have just been
disabled on aarch64 since 2020-11-20, so current composes don't have
Firefox in them on aarch64 at all. There's a bug related to this:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1897675
which I just gave a bit of a bump, because it shouldn't really be
acceptable to just turn off our default browser's build on one of our
primary arches for weeks at a time :(
This also breaks several of the other tests which use Firefox, like the
Cockpit and FreeIPA browser tests.
The tests should run on openQA prod from the next compose. The branch
has been deployed on openQA lab (staging) for weeks (including the
broken tests), so you can see how it's been behaving there.
Thanks folks!
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Adam Williamson
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