Ubuntu
testdrive package

testdrive fails to create VM

Bug #524217 reported by Michael Gauthier
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Bug Description

Binary package hint: testdrive

Running in Ubuntu 9.10 with VirtualBox 3.0.8.

Welcome to Testdrive!

  1. Ubuntu Desktop (i386) (lucid)
     +-cache--> [2010-02-17 04:03:16] lucid-desktop-i386.iso
  2. Ubuntu Server (i386) (lucid)
  3. Ubuntu Alternate (i386) (lucid)
  4. Ubuntu DVD (i386) (lucid)
  5. Ubuntu Netbook (lucid)
  6. Other (prompt for ISO URL)

Command line output follows:

Select an ISO to testdrive: 1
WARNING: Your CPU's lack of VT will seriously impact performance.

INFO: Using VirtualBox for virtual machine hosting...

INFO: Syncing the specified ISO...

      rsync://cdimage.ubuntu.com/cdimage/daily-live/current/lucid-desktop-i386.iso

receiving file list ...
1 file to consider

sent 120 bytes received 97 bytes 144.67 bytes/sec
total size is 738897920 speedup is 3405059.54
INFO: VirtualBox 3.0 detected.

INFO: Creating disk image...

VirtualBox Command Line Management Interface Version 3.0.8_OSE
(C) 2005-2009 Sun Microsystems, Inc.
All rights reserved.

0%...10%...20%...30%...40%...50%...60%...70%...80%...90%...100%
Disk image created. UUID: 8ca4e0ec-6d00-4f50-bef9-abffdde4c29b
VirtualBox Command Line Management Interface Version 3.0.8_OSE
(C) 2005-2009 Sun Microsystems, Inc.
All rights reserved.

ERROR: Could not find a registered machine named 'testdrive'
Details: code VBOX_E_OBJECT_NOT_FOUND (0x80bb0001), component VirtualBox, interface IVirtualBox, callee nsISupports
Context: "FindMachine(Bstr(a->argv[0]), machine.asOutParam())" at line 863 of file VBoxManageModifyVM.cpp
INFO: Creating the Virtual Machine...

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/testdrive", line 241, in <module>
    os.unlink("%s/.VirtualBox/Machines/%s/%s.xml" % (HOME, VBOX_NAME, VBOX_NAME))
OSError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '/home/gauthierm/.VirtualBox/Machines/testdrive/testdrive.xml'

Revision history for this message
Michael Gauthier (mike-silverorange) wrote :

This is a problem in the code to delete existing vm images. The "if os.path.exists()" call has an erroneous == 0 at the end causing the os.path.unlink() to always run even if the file doesn't exist. This causes a python exception trying to delete a file that does not exist.

Revision history for this message
Dustin Kirkland  (kirkland) wrote : Re: [Bug 524217] Re: testdrive fails to create VM

Thanks! I'll get it fixed.

Changed in testdrive (Ubuntu):
status: New → In Progress
Revision history for this message
Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

This bug was fixed in the package testdrive - 1.21-0ubuntu1

---------------
testdrive (1.21-0ubuntu1) lucid; urgency=low

  * testdrive: fix conditional test, LP: #524217
 -- Dustin Kirkland <email address hidden> Sat, 13 Feb 2010 17:38:17 -0600

Changed in testdrive (Ubuntu):
status: In Progress → Fix Released
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