[PATCH 0/1] tests/acceptance: set VM socket encoding to UTF-8

From: Daniele Buono <dbuono@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Cc: "Philippe Mathieu-Daudé" <philmd@redhat.com>,
	"Daniele Buono" <dbuono@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	"Wainer dos Santos Moschetta" <wainersm@redhat.com>,
	"Cleber Rosa" <crosa@redhat.com>
Subject: [PATCH 0/1] tests/acceptance: set VM socket encoding to UTF-8
Date: Tue, 21 Jul 2020 08:55:21 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200721125522.20511-1-dbuono@linux.vnet.ibm.com> (raw)

Some of the acceptance tests were failing for me with an error while
decoding characters coming from the VMs running for the test.

The error looked like this:

(30/36) tests/acceptance/boot_linux_console.py:BootLinuxConsole.test_nios2_10m50: ERROR: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xc2 in position 36: ordinal not in range(128) (1.29 s)

The very same test is running fine on GitLab CI

An investigation of the issue shows that the socket we are using between
QEMU and AVOCADO is using the default encoding of the host OS. In my
case, locale was set to plain ASCII with LANG=C. Setting it to a UTF-8
locale fixed the issue, but a safer approach should be to just tell
Python to always use a UTF-8 charset for the socket. This is what the
patch does.

Daniele Buono (1):
  tests/acceptance: set VM socket encoding to UTF-8

 tests/acceptance/avocado_qemu/__init__.py | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

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