Comment 11 for bug 1204456

I experienced this failure these days and my unittest always failed at case
"neutron.tests.unit.ml2.drivers.cisco.nexus.test_cisco_mech.TestCiscoBasicGet.test_single_get_admin".
After debugging, I found this bug is caused by ml2 type_drivers entry points not found.

way to reproduce:
1. cd neutron
2. rm -rf neutron.egg-info
3. ./run_tests.sh neutron.tests.unit.ml2.drivers.cisco.nexus.test_cisco_mech.TestCiscoBasicGet.test_single_get_admin

...
running=OS_STDOUT_CAPTURE=1 OS_STDERR_CAPTURE=1 OS_LOG_CAPTURE=1 ${PYTHON:-python} -m subunit.run discover -t ./ ${OS_TEST_PATH:-./neutron/tests/unit} --list
running=OS_STDOUT_CAPTURE=1 OS_STDERR_CAPTURE=1 OS_LOG_CAPTURE=1 ${PYTHON:-python} -m subunit.run discover -t ./ ${OS_TEST_PATH:-./neutron/tests/unit} --load-list /tmp/tmp2MIKLY

process-returncode
process-returncode ... FAIL
math domain error
Slowest Tests
neutron.tests.unit.ml2.drivers.cisco.nexus.test_cisco_mech.TestCiscoBasicGet.test_single_get_admin
neutron.tests.unit.ml2.drivers.cisco.nexus.test_cisco_mech.TestCiscoBasicGet.test_single_get_admin ... FAIL

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FAIL: process-returncode
process-returncode
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_StringException: Binary content:
  traceback (test/plain; charset="utf8")

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FAIL: neutron.tests.unit.ml2.drivers.cisco.nexus.test_cisco_mech.TestCiscoBasicGet.test_single_get_admin
neutron.tests.unit.ml2.drivers.cisco.nexus.test_cisco_mech.TestCiscoBasicGet.test_single_get_admin
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_StringException

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Ran 2 tests in 25.174s

FAILED (failures=2)

way to fix:
1. python setup.py egg_info
2. ./run_tests.sh neutron.tests.unit.ml2.drivers.cisco.nexus.test_cisco_mech.TestCiscoBasicGet.test_single_get_admin

...
running=OS_STDOUT_CAPTURE=1 OS_STDERR_CAPTURE=1 OS_LOG_CAPTURE=1 ${PYTHON:-python} -m subunit.run discover -t ./ ${OS_TEST_PATH:-./neutron/tests/unit} --list
running=OS_STDOUT_CAPTURE=1 OS_STDERR_CAPTURE=1 OS_LOG_CAPTURE=1 ${PYTHON:-python} -m subunit.run discover -t ./ ${OS_TEST_PATH:-./neutron/tests/unit} --load-list /tmp/tmp1bq15x
neutron.tests.unit.ml2.drivers.cisco.nexus.test_cisco_mech.TestCiscoBasicGet.test_single_get_admin
neutron.tests.unit.ml2.drivers.cisco.nexus.test_cisco_mech.TestCiscoBasicGet.test_single_get_admin ... ok
Slowest Tests
Test id Runtime (s)
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -----------
neutron.tests.unit.ml2.drivers.cisco.nexus.test_cisco_mech.TestCiscoBasicGet.test_single_get_admin 1.362

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Ran 1 test in 25.259s

OK

The reason is that when testcase setup Ml2Plugin, Ml2Plugin will initialize TypeManager()(https://github.com/openstack/neutron/blob/master/neutron/plugins/ml2/plugin.py#L105). Then TypeManager() will loaded type drivers using stevedore.named.NamedExtensionManager which invokes entry points(https://github.com/openstack/neutron/blob/master/neutron/plugins/ml2/managers.py#L38). But without .egg-info metadata directory, TypeManager cannot find entry points for ml2 type drivers, the testcase failed at setUp(), the unittest process exit without any detailed error information.

This issue shoud affect any testcases which invoke python-stevedore to load plugins.