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Bug#1120955: dracut: autopkgtest timeouts: Press Enter to continue.

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Thanks for the report.

On Tue, 2025-11-18 at 20:15 +0100, Paul Gevers wrote:
> Your package has an autopkgtest, great. However, it seems that a recent 
> upload of systemd made it fail. But what's worse, it fails because it 
> seems to hang waiting for somebody to press Enter and eventually times 
> out due to autopkgtest after 8.5 hours. Can you please investigate the 
> situation and make sure that if the autopkgtest of dracut fails, it 
> doesn't hang waiting for a key press that never comes? I copied some of 
> the output at the bottom of this report.
> 
> Tests that time out (while normally running in much less time) are bad 
> for our infrastructure. I have added your package to our reject_list and 
> will remove it once this bug is closed.

The underlying issue has been fixed upstream and I cherry-picked it.
I'll upload the fixed dracut package after writing this mail.

I also look into how to prevent failing dracut tests to cause the test
to hang.

Note: the Dracut test takes 30 min on my beefy desktop machine. It takes
three hours on a Raspberry Pi 5.

-- 
Benjamin Drung
Debian & Ubuntu Developer

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Bug#1120955: dracut: autopkgtest timeouts: Press Enter to continue. Benjamin Drung <bdrung@debian.org> - 2025-11-19 18:00 +0100
  Bug#1120955: dracut: autopkgtest timeouts: Press Enter to continue. Paul Gevers <elbrus@debian.org> - 2025-11-20 19:20 +0100
    Bug#1120955: dracut: autopkgtest timeouts: Press Enter to continue. Paul Gevers <elbrus@debian.org> - 2025-11-27 09:00 +0100

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