[PATCH v2 1/4] test: Include /sbin to the PATH when creating ext4 disk image

Andy Shevchenko andriy.shevchenko at linux.intel.com
Thu Feb 11 15:40:09 CET 2021


On some distributions the mkfs.ext4 is under /sbin and /sbin is not set
for mere users. Include /sbin to the PATH when creating ext4 disk image,
so that users won't get a scary traceback from Python.

Cc: Patrick Delaunay <patrick.delaunay at foss.st.com>
Signed-off-by: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko at linux.intel.com>
---
v2: used '/sbin' as is (Simon)
 test/py/tests/test_env.py | 2 ++
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

diff --git a/test/py/tests/test_env.py b/test/py/tests/test_env.py
index 940279651da0..9bed2f48d77e 100644
--- a/test/py/tests/test_env.py
+++ b/test/py/tests/test_env.py
@@ -414,6 +414,8 @@ def mk_env_ext4(state_test_env):
     if os.path.exists(persistent):
         c.log.action('Disk image file ' + persistent + ' already exists')
     else:
+        # Some distributions do not add /sbin to the default PATH, where mkfs.ext4 lives
+        os.environ["PATH"] += os.pathsep + '/sbin'
         try:
             u_boot_utils.run_and_log(c, 'dd if=/dev/zero of=%s bs=1M count=16' % persistent)
             u_boot_utils.run_and_log(c, 'mkfs.ext4 %s' % persistent)
-- 
2.30.0



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