Release Notes

Restraint 0.4.4

Bug Fixes

  • Fix: Stabilize selinux behavior in RHEL-9
    Added a static selinux policy for RHEL-9. The policy is manually built from a RHEL-9.0.0 host so it will work on all RHEL-9 versions. If built on a later version of RHEL-9, it will not be backward compatible with older versions and fail to install.

Restraint 0.4.3

Bug Fixes

  • Fix: Revert fix to fetch either branch ‘main’ or ‘master’
    When performing a fetch operation, restraint will continue to look for master branch only.
  • Fix: Revert Fetch URL fix
    Backing out fix to provide precise directory matching for repoRequires and fetch operation. The problem is not all user selection data is precise. Some user testing will be hindered with this change. Due to these unknown cases, requesting users chose to instead make their directory definitions more precise. Refer to comment in Issue 272 on 3/13 for more details. If folks decide to reintroduce this change, they should also apply pull 289 which provides more flexibility.

Restraint 0.4.2

Bug Fixes

  • Fix: Fetch either branch ‘main’ or ‘master’
    When performing a fetch operation, restraint will look for either main or master branch.
  • Fix: rstrnt-reboot not reliable for UEFI systems
    When efibootmgr is present, the BootNext variable is set to reboot to Current. When rstrnt-prepare-reboot was written, a timer was set to remove BootNext setting after 180 seconds. rstrnt-reboot uses the prepare script and the timer wasn’t long enough and not needed for rstrnt-reboot. This changeset allows NEXTBOOT_VALID_TIME to be set to 0. When 0, the timer is not set and as a result BootNext will not be removed. rstrnt-reboot now uses a 0 timer.
  • Fix: Fetch URL extract too many matched directories
    When fetch url is used, restraint is copying anything that matches the pattern in https://<snip>#pattern regardless of the location in the received path. If pattern is include, both general/include, include directories will match when it should only be include. Restraint will now only select if it matches starting from beginning of received path NOT throughout directory path. But first, the first string/ must be ignored from the received path since it is superfluous for the match since it includes the repo and branch name added by curl. Jobs that include this repo-branch prefix in the fetch pattern will now fail with this changeset. So fetching https://<snip>#repo-branch/pattern will fail.
  • Fix: Use of FALSE/FAILURESTRINGS results in ‘too many arguments’
    Seeing the following errors in restraint.log files. restraintd[2330]: ./01_dmesg_check: line 53: [: too many arguments Added Quote around the value to prevent this.

Restraint 0.4.1

Other

  • Tag 0.4.1 was intentionally skipped.

Restraint 0.4.0

Bug Fixes

  • Set OOMPolicy=continue to prevent killing restraintd (Fedora/RHEL9+)
    Upon memory depletion, prevent the kernel from killing restraintd service. Keep restraintd running, but log the service event. This OOMPolicy setting is only available for RHEL9+ and Fedora distros. Other distros will remain unchanged.
  • Prevent restraint client from being interrupted by SIGPIPE signal
    Code change is to ignore SIGPIPE then client code will naturally attempt to retry once determined that the path is broken.
  • rstrnt-reboot to ignore SIGTERM
    When this scripts performs a reboot, it does a loop forever to prevent from returning to the calling process. This changeset ignores SIGTERMs to keep it from interrupting the loop. We must keep the SIGKILL in place however so there is still a small window of opportunity of returning to caller but the window has been narrowed with this change.

Other Notable Changes

  • RHEL 5 and 6 builds are no longer created from this version onward.
    This is partly due to upgrades of libraries used by restraint which are not compatible with the older RHEL releases. Older restraint releases for RHEL 5 and 6 prior to this 0.4.0 release will still exist in the download repositories.

Restraint 0.3.3

Bug Fixes

  • Restraint client honors job_id defined in <recipe> tag.
  • Improve error handling on recipe and task state management
    Some errors that could indicate a bad saved state are now handled and reported.
  • Fix distro version check in 20_unconfined
    Make it better at detecting Fedora 34 as Fedora and distinguish RHEL from Fedora in version comparison. The main difference is that it now picks the right SELinux context for test jobs on Fedora 34 (Rawhide at the time of writing).

Restraint 0.3.2

What’s New

  • Enable log manager for log caching

Bug Fixes

  • Upload cached logs in time intervals
    The log manager uploads the cached contents of taskout.log and harness.log every 15 seconds. This allows to follow task progress and avoids missing logs when the external watchdog aborts the recipe.

Restraint 0.3.1

Bug Fixes

  • Disable log manager
    The log manager is disabled and the behavior for taskout.log and harness.log is the same as before it was introduced.

Restraint 0.3.0

What’s New

  • Wait on Beaker’s health status
    When Restraint runs under Beaker, Beaker’s health status is checked before performing steps that require communication with Beaker. Recipe execution is held until Beaker is available.
  • Log manager for log caching
    When Restraint runs under Beaker, harness and task logs are cached in the system. Logs are uploaded to Beaker after the task completes.
    Contributed by Ernestas Kulik <ernestask@gnome.org>

Bug Fixes

  • Recognize results reported for non-rhts tasks
    When the task reports just SKIP for results, the final task result should be SKIP. An extra task result is occurring when a non-rhts task is executed. An non-rhts task is one that uses the metadata file instead of testinfo file. Bugzilla 1334893 made a change to always report results PASS for task exiting with zero or FAIL when exit non-zero for non-rhts tasks. As a result, PASS was being reported which has a high priority then SKIP so the final task result was PASS.
    Code changes monitor whether user reports results by way of rstrnt-report-result. If so, give those results priority; otherwise, hardcode PASS task result for user.
    When process exits with non-zero, FAIL for non-rhts will remain as this provides the user the option to continue with the job. If they want legacy behavior, they should make a call to rstrnt-abort in their task.
  • Stop logging LWD is disabled every minute
    When LWD (Local Watchdog) is disabled, there is a message in the harness log that reports this every minute. The message looks like: Localwatchdog at: Disabled! `. This changeset makes sure it is no longer reported repeatedly when `no_localwatchdog=true is configured in the task metadata file. To ensure there is some type of keepalive mechanism, the client now performs ssh keepalive towards the server. This timeout value is configurable by use of the restraint client option –timeout which only affects default behavior. The timeout value has no effect when the rsh argument is used.
  • Use new task install default for non-RHTS package
    For restraint-rhts package, tasks are installed and executed beneath /mnt/tests. For non-rhts restraint installations, this path has changed to a more appropriate location.
    The 20_sysinfo plugin processes journalctl log in a temporary location instead of /mnt as it is just an interim event.

Restraint 0.2.3

Bug Fixes

  • Fix noisy Restraint client output

    The Restraint client was not honoring the verbosity levels and it was printing all output available even when the verbosity level was the lowest. The Restraint client output now behaves similarly to release 0.1.45.

  • Increase retries for recipe fetching

    Retries for recipe fetching are increased from 3 attempts in 10 seconds intervals to 12 attempts in 10 seconds intervals.

Restraint 0.2.2

Bug Fixes

  • restraint client now honors recipe params as well as task params.

  • Correct commands exit status when argument parsing fails due to bad syntax. Commands always return non-zero in case of failure.

  • Resolve loop in local watchdog plugin

    When the local watchdog (LWD) expires a task, the LWD plugin 20_sysinfo goes into an infinite loop since the directory /mnt/testarea is not created for the non-rhts restraint package. An error returned by diff utility within an infinite loop was not anticipated. The fix terminates the infinite loop when diff returns error.

Restraint 0.2.1

What’s New

  • Add ability to select restraintd instance by port to restraint commands
    When running commands outside of jobs on the local host, some restraint commands require manually setting up environment variables or constructing long URLs before running. This can be issue if you are trying to extend the watchdog in a timely fashion. A new option was added which requires the argument –port <restraint-port-number>. Commands affected are rstrnt-report-log, rstrnt-report-result, rstrnt-abort, and rstrnt-watchdog.
  • Restore ability to specify restraintd port
    Add the -p, –port option back to restraint daemon and client to specify the port where restraintd will be listening to. RHBZ#1821342
  • Document how to remove RHTS from Jobs
    Added new section Guide to removing RHTS from Jobs detailing substitutes for RHTS scripts, environment variables, and testinfo.desc file and associated variables. RHBZ#1802610

Bug Fixes

  • Redirect task STDIN back to /dev/null
    In release 0.2.0, the task STDIN was redirected to a pipe shared with the server. This breaks ausearch command when the input is not explicitly specified, as by default, if STDIN is a pipe, it will read from it, instead of system logs. As the pipe is closed when the task is running, tests expecting matches failed, and tests expecting no matches were unreliable. Restoring redirect of task STDIN back to /dev/null ensures that ausearch reads from system logs by default.
  • Restore default port for restraind system service
    In release 0.2.0 the port for restraintd system service is chosen dynamically, breaking workflows where the port was expected to persist between reboots. When restraintd runs as a system service, the port defaults to 8081. RHBZ#1823545
  • Restraintd killed by SIGTRAP
    It was discovered that an error logging function (g_error) introduced in 0.2.0 also performed aborts. The function was replaced with one which logs without undesirable side effects. RHBZ#1823840, RHBZ#1831824
  • restraintd fails to start if both, IPv4 and IPv6, are not available on the loopback interface
    In this release, restraintd will not fail if it’s able to listen on at least one protocol, IPv4 or IPv6, although it will still try to listen on both.
  • Fix use of uninitialized FD for STDIN when PTY is requested
    When PTY was requested, the FD for the task STDIN was left uninitialized. The value, set to 0, was still used in a close call, closing the parent STDIN FD and causing unexpected behavior in task execution. In this release, the FD for STDIN is not used when PTY is requested.

Restraint 0.2.0

Upgrades

  • RHBZ#1667510: Remove libssh from restraint client.
    The port used by restraint server is no longer static. If using the restraint client, refer to restraint documentation for changes to arguments passed since the port is no longer included in –host argument. The client spawns restraintd for you so the extra step of starting up a restraintd instance is no longer needed. Because of these interface changes, the restraint client and server must be the same version.
    (Contributed by Bill Peck and Carol Bouchard)
  • RHBZ#1770230: Replace rhts-sync- with rstrnt-sync- cmds.
    This changeset creates rstrnt-sync- commands and links rhts-sync- commands to it. The multihost plugin now uses rstrnt-sync- commands.
    (Contributed by Carol Bouchard)
  • RHBZ#1802261: Upgrade libxml2 to version 2.9.10
    (Contributed by Daniel Rodriguez Gonzalez)

Bug Fixes

  • RHBZ#1795915: Remove execute permission from systemd service file. There is a warning message in the systemd logs about the file being executable.
    (Contributed by John Villalovos)

Restraint 0.1.45

  • FIXED: RHBZ#1795781: Multihost sync hangs on remote reboot. Users multihost synchronization task hangs on block operation when remote host reboots. This is a corner case difficult to reproduce.
    (Contributed by Carol Bouchard)
  • FIXED: RHBZ#1792466: Restraint segfault during labcontroller timeout. On error when gathering peer roles from the lab controller, a double free of the error structure causes bad behavior in glib memory management. Eventually this causes restraint server to crash on a segfault.
    (Contributed by Carol Bouchard)
  • FIXED: RHBZ#1691485: Rstrnt Client not provide task vers in job.xml. This change affects rpm tasks only. Restraint server gets the version number from the rpm and returns it in ‘Completed/Aborted’ status message sent to restraint client. The restraint client writes it out in the job.xml.
    (Contributed by Carol Bouchard)
  • FIXED: RHBZ#1793114: Wrong file permission on 30_dmesg_clear plugin. The new 30_dmesg_clear plugin does not have execute file permission. However, other scripts add execution permission so it is correct in the rpm. This is being fixed in repo to prevent chasing it as an issue.
    (Contributed by Carol Bouchard)

Restraint 0.1.44

  • FIXED: RHBZ#1788252: restraintd crash in timeout_callback functions. Ran into timing issues when process_timeout_callback occurs after process_pid_callback. The task data is NULL so process_timeout_callback should not attempt to process task data when pid is 0 indicating process is complete.
    (Contributed by Carol Bouchard)
  • FIXED: RHBZ#1781722: Not executing task when multihost utilized. Observed that restraint reported the task started but output from the task itself not making it to taskout.log file. With debug enabled, found it stopped in 30_restore_events plugin. Performed more detail unit testing on rstrnt-sync and resolved a number of issues found.
    (Contributed by Carol Bouchard)
  • FIXED: RHBZ#1782422: Fetch https operation noisy harness.log. When using <fetch url=”https://github.com/repo#dirname> in task, the entire repo is downloaded and a log entry for each file/dir found is logged. These log entries get reported to Lab Controller which results in reduced performance. Fixed code to report only entries found beneath the directory name ‘dirname’.
    (Contributed by Carol Bouchard)

Restraint 0.1.43

  • FIXED: RHBZ#1774211: Seeing too many repo extraction. Under certain conditions, restraint was failing to go to next repoRequires operation causing redundant fetch operations to occur.
    (Contributed by Carol Bouchard)
  • FIXED: RHBZ#1236568: Separate dmesg clear from check. Need for a separate plugin so clear of the dmesg logs is done independently from check dmesg logs. Currently this is done during dmesg check plugin. If dmesg check plugin is disabled, so is the clear operation leaving the next task will process unrelated errors. By separating clear from check operation, the clear operation can always be performed.
    (Contributed by Carol Bouchard)
  • FIXED: RHBZ#1749316: Rstrnt retry refresh role on socket io err. User periodically observed “Error: Socket I/O Timed out”. This occurred during the restraint task state “** Refreshing peer role hostnames” which collects host roles from lab controller and there is no response in default 1 minute time frame. To handle network issues, restraint will retry this event similar to what is done when performing fetch operations.
    (Contributed by Carol Bouchard)
  • FIXED: RHBZ#1762731: Rstrnt add more metadata UTs.
    (Contributed by Carol Bouchard)
  • NEW: RHBZ#1455763: New command rstrnt-prepare-reboot. It does the same preparatory work as rstrnt-reboot, but does not trigger the reboot. Tasks can use this prior to (intentionally) crashing the system or rebooting it in some other non-standard way.
    (Contributed by Tomas Klohna)

Restraint 0.1.42

  • FIXED: RHBZ#1753652: Multihost Sync Improvements. A number of improvements have been made to the Multihost synchronization feature. * Only perform multihost sync when roles SERVERS and CLIENTS are defined in the environment. * Add the ability to tune the amount of time to pause before another retry attempt. * Restraint’s retry pause time reduced to 30 from 60. * Improve log entries to provide insight to multihost sync operations.
    (Contributed by Carol Bouchard)
  • FIXED: RHBZ#1756515: FALSESTRINGS not provide consistent results. If a dmesg log contains “falsestring failurestring”, then falsestring will override failurestring. If they were swapped where “failurestring falsestring”, then falsestring does not override failurestring which is a bug. This changeset resolves this inconsistency. It also removed printing of surrounding 5 lines around the matching line. This will make it easier for users to identify which line has matched. The full dmesg log file is also provided so user can easily search through the full dmesg log if they need to see surrounding lines.
    (Contributed by Carol Bouchard)

Restraint 0.1.41

  • FIXED: RHBZ#1753336: The cli rstrnt-adjust-watchdog command. was producing random results. The message from restraintd to the lab controller was getting truncated when the number of digits for time increased. There is an extra 30 minutes added to this message for external watchdog so it is possible for it to increase by 1 byte. Since restraintd used the same message received for the request, the message length was already set so the soup library didn’t try to recalculate it. The solution is to initialize the length to 0 to force the soup library to recalculate it.
    (Contributed by Carol Bouchard)
  • FIXED: RHBZ#1751074: Rlse 0.1.40 seeing a lot of invalid. dmesg failures. This behavior only occurs on x86_64 arch. The rpm task /distribution/install, method VirtWorkaround() is setting an empty /usr/share/rhts/failurestrings file. As a result, every line is treated as a failure. Solution is to make sure the failurestrings file has content before using it. Included in this changeset is detail output for next triage. This output is written to the bottom of resultoutputfile.log when 01_dmesg_check reports failure. This debug code reports which set of failure and falsestring data was used: environment vars, files, or hardcoded defaults. It shows content of the failure/falsestrings variables and if the files exist, if there is data in them or the files content is also dumped into the bottom of the log file.
    (Contributed by Carol Bouchard)

Restraint 0.1.40

Released 4 September 2019.

  • FIXED: RHBZ#1609330: Restraint should have a log similar to beah’s /mnt/testarea/current.log. This file points to unique task file named /tmp/tmp.XXXX (where XXXX is random). As tasks change, the link changes to new tmp.XXXX file. File current.log makes it convenient to find current task log file as the job is running.
    (Contributed by Carol Bouchard)
  • NEW: RHBZ#1713313: Provide an option for not rebooting the test box after localwatchdog killed a task. No new code was written for this since an option already existed. This changeset documents the option RSTRNT_DISABLED which allows the user to disable specified plugins.
    (Contributed by Carol Bouchard)
  • FIXED: RHBZ#1678549: Restraint starts too early for the system to get ready for testing. Instead, wait until network is up before starting restraint.
    (Contributed by Martin Styk)
  • FIXED: RHBZ#1694221: SELinux tests break. The 20_unconfined plugin currently checks if process running with SELinux role and domain but was missing check if user is SELinux user.
    (Contributed by Martin Styk)
  • FIXED: RHBZ#1478653: [RESTRAINT] Error uploading /var/log/messages. Seeing error Bad Request [soup_http_error_quark, 400]. This error occurs because restraint reports the number of bytes to send but then sends more as the file continues to grow. Now we only send the number of bytes from the point the transmission began and ignore subsequent lines in the log as they are just extra noise.
    (Contributed by Carol Bouchard)
  • FIXED: RHBZ#1700886: Restraint not uploading resultoutputfile.log when local watchdog expires. The variable OUTPUTFILE was not being set. It is now set to the tasks current.log (ref: 1609330) so it is now reported.
    (Contributed by Carol Bouchard)
  • FIXED: RHBZ#1730617: Multihost: Task execution synchronization does not work in restraint. As documented in Beaker’s Multihost Tasks section, Task 1 on both server and client must complete before moving on to Task 2 and so on. A new plugin 85_sync_multihost_tasks was added to cause synchronization between client and server tasks.
    (Contributed by Carol Bouchard)
  • FIXED: RHBZ#1700915: Resolve inconsistency of MAXTIME vs MAX_TIME variables. To resolve confusion, RSTRNT_MAX_TIME is being deprecated with an existing variable KILLTIMEOVERRIDE. This changeset documents this deprecation.
    (Contributed by Tomas Klohna)
  • NEW: RHBZ#1700926: Allow task to adjust local watchdog. The command rstrnt-adjust-watchdog only affects the external watchdog. To be compatible with beah, this commmand also works for the local watchdog.
    (Contributed by Carol Bouchard)
  • FIXED: RHBZ#1705223: Incomplete doc in regards to metadata/testinfo.desc. This is a spinoff from BZ1120496 but for restraint. This changeset identified and documented variables in metadata and testinfo file.
    (Contributed by Carol Bouchard)

Restraint 0.1.39

Released 27 February 2019.

  • NEW: RHBZ#1552199: Restraint-client now supports changing timeout value for the request.
    (Contributed by Martin Styk)
  • FIXED: RHBZ#1670377: Fixed compilation issues for GCC9/Automake.
    (Contributed by Martin Styk)

Restraint 0.1.38

Released 29 January 2019.

  • FIXED: RHBZ#1670111: Fixed crash of Restraint for ppc64le and aarch64 architecture.
    (Contributed by Bill Peck)

Restraint 0.1.37

Released 11 January 2019.

  • NEW: RHBZ#1665390: Added feature to set family from client XML.
    (Contributed by Bill Peck)
  • NEW: RHBZ#1656466: Restraint now supports @module syntax for dependencies for RHEL8+.
    (Contributed by Martin Styk)
  • FIXED: RHBZ#1663125: Restraint now listens separately for IPv4 and IPv6. One running version of the protocol is sufficient for restraintd run.
    (Contributed by Bill Peck)
  • FIXED: RHBZ#1663825: When BootCurrent is not available, Restraint will try to fall back to /root/EFI_BOOT_ENTRY.TXT.
    (Contributed by Martin Styk)
  • FIXED: RHBZ#1659353: Fixed obsolete URL for Bzip2 package in Makefile.
    (Contributed by Martin Styk)
  • FIXED: RHBZ#1599550: Fixed crash of Restraint for RHEL6 arch s390 caused by glib2.
    (Contributed by Matt Tyson)
  • FIXED: RHBZ#1608262: Fixed guest-host synchronization.
    (Contributed by Dan Callaghan)

Restraint 0.1.36

Released 24 August 2018.

  • NEW: RHBZ#1506064: The dmesg error checking plugin can now match patterns against multi-line “cut here” style traces. The plugin now ignores a warning about “mapping multiple BARs” on IBM x3250m4 systems, matching the existing behaviour of the RHTS dmesg checker.
    (Contributed by Jacob McKenzie)
  • FIXED: RHBZ#1592376: Restraint resets the SIGPIPE handler before executing task processes. Previously the tasks would inherit the “ignore” action for SIGPIPE from the Restraint parent process, which would prevent normal shell broken pipe handling from working correctly in the task.
    (Contributed by Matt Tyson)
  • FIXED: RHBZ#1595167: When the local watchdog timer expires, Restraint will now upload the output from journalctl in favour of /var/log/messages if the systemd journal is present. Previously it would attempt to upload /var/log/messages even if the file did not exist, causing the local watchdog handling to enter an infinite loop.
    (Contributed by Matt Tyson)
  • FIXED: RHBZ#1593595: Fixed an improper buffer allocation which could cause Restraint to crash with a segmentation fault instead of reporting an error message in certain circumstances.
    (Contributed by Róman Joost)
  • FIXED: RHBZ#1600825: Fixed a file conflict introduced in Restraint 0.1.35 between the restraint package and the rhts-test-env package.
    (Contributed by Matt Tyson)
  • FIXED: RHBZ#1601705: Fixed a shell syntax error in the RPM %post scriptlet on RHEL4 which caused the package to be un-installable.
    (Contributed by Dan Callaghan)
  • FIXED: RHBZ#1585904: Fixed a shell syntax error in the restraintd init script which caused it to fail to start on RHEL4.
    (Contributed by Dan Callaghan)