unable to run tests requiring "updates=http://jlaska.fedorapeople.org/updates/traceback.img" option

[Kamil Paral]

> Kamil Paral <kparal <at> redhat.com> writes:
> 
> > > Several tests in the install test matrix require the above
> > > option,
> > > but when
> > > anaconda attempts to start after downloading the file, I get the
> > > text-based
> > > traceback (not the expected GUI error) at
> > > 
> > > http://robatino.fedorapeople.org/traceback.xwd.gz
> > 
> > Did you already reported the bug against anaconda?
> 
> No, the error "ImportError: cannot import name expandLangs" made me
> suspect that
> the problem is with the traceback.img file itself (I could be wrong
> though).

You seem to be right. I explored the files in traceback.img and they contain this line.

So there are two solutions:

1. Ask James Laska (or someone else) to fix this problem.

2. Ask Anaconda team to provide us with their "official" and supported solution.

After inspecting updates.img, there is a lot of code copied from (some old version of) anaconda. That doesn't seem to me as a good solution, because we might get completely unrelated problems in the process. I imagine anaconda guys could provide us with a much better solution. For example they could add "traceback" kernel option that causes anaconda crash on startup. This is just a few lines of code, it would be maintained, and doesn't involve any updates.img downloading etc. What do you think? I'll discuss with anaconda team if noone has better ideas.


>  
> > > (use "display traceback.xwd.gz" to view, where display is part of
> > > the
> > > ImageMagick package). The traceback is exactly the same with the
> > > i386
> > > and x86_64
> > > DVDs.
> > 
> > virt-manager can save the screen as a PNG. xwd.gz is somewhat
> > cumbersome.
> 
> Thanks. I filed https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=735611
> against eog a
> while ago for not recognizing xwd files, but no activity yet. Is
> there a way to
> save a specific window as a PNG that works in general? (With XWD I
> can just do
> "xwd > file.xwd", click in the window, then compress the file.)

eog doesn't help much when I still need to download it. PNG can be viewed in the browser.

I think hitting "Virtual Machine -> Print screen" (available when running VMs from virt-manager) or generic Alt+Printscreen (that would include VM window borders, but who cares) is just really simple as well.

Thanks.