Error ISO not found - but it's there

This bug was fixed in the package testdrive - 1.23-0ubuntu1

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testdrive (1.23-0ubuntu1) lucid; urgency=low

  * testdrive: wget's output is on stdout, handle. LP: #526674
 -- Dustin Kirkland <email address hidden> Tue, 23 Feb 2010 12:27:52 -0600

I don't think the commit fixed the problem, at least I'm still getting the exact same output.

Select an ISO to testdrive: 10

Enter an ISO URL to testdrive: http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/kubuntu/daily-live/current/lucid-desktop-amd64.iso
INFO: Using KVM for virtual machine hosting...

INFO: Syncing the specified ISO...

      http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/kubuntu/daily-live/current/lucid-desktop-amd64.iso

ERROR: ISO not found at [http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/kubuntu/daily-live/current/lucid-desktop-amd64.iso]

lepore@upstairs:~$ testdrive -v
INFO: testdrive 1.23-0ubuntu1~ppa4

Could you paste the output of

  wget -q --spider -S
http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/kubuntu/daily-live/current/lucid-desktop-amd64.iso

Thanks.

Running wget with the quiet option produces no output. Running it with the verbose option yields:

wget -v --spider -S http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/kubuntu/daily-live/current/lucid-desktop-amd64.iso
Spider mode enabled. Check if remote file exists.
--2010-02-24 15:35:53-- http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/kubuntu/daily-live/current/lucid-desktop-amd64.iso
Resolving cdimage.ubuntu.com... 91.189.88.39
Connecting to cdimage.ubuntu.com|91.189.88.39|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response...
  HTTP/1.1 200 OK
  Date: Wed, 24 Feb 2010 20:36:08 GMT
  Server: Apache/2.2.8 (Ubuntu)
  Last-Modified: Wed, 24 Feb 2010 19:33:23 GMT
  ETag: "1634346-2ae15800-4805dbd4b86c0"
  Accept-Ranges: bytes
  Content-Length: 719411200
  Keep-Alive: timeout=15, max=100
  Connection: Keep-Alive
  Content-Type: application/x-iso9660-image
Length: 719411200 (686M) [application/x-iso9660-image]
Remote file exists.

So the file is there, but testdrive still can't locate it.

Same problem here. I'm running Karmic on an 64bit system.
I'm getting the same massages as glepore70.
I've installed testdrive just today and configured it to use virtualbox. But I do not think that the latter caused the bug.

The problem appears to be occurring in line 256 of /usr/bin/testdrive:
if run("wget -q --spider -S %s 2>&1 | grep 'HTTP/1.. 200 OK'" % ISO_URL) != 0:
removing the "-q" quiet option from this line enables testdrive to properly download the Kubuntu ISO.

I'm not a code guru, but it appears the -q option is conflicting with the redirect "2>&1", one says quiet and the other says send the error output to stdout. I think the quiet option wins that fight. Also, the grep statement won't find anything to search if the -q option is specified.

Anyway, forgive the backseat coding, removing the -q in line 256 fixes the immediate problem, without apparently causing any other issues.

Awesome, thanks for tracking that down. I'll upload a fix.

This bug was fixed in the package testdrive - 1.24-0ubuntu1

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testdrive (1.24-0ubuntu1) lucid; urgency=low

  * testdrive:
    - fix iso-not-found errors, LP: #526674
    - fix archecture detection logic, LP: #526701
 -- Dustin Kirkland <email address hidden> Tue, 23 Feb 2010 18:35:38 -0600