[LU-12261] sanity test 43b fails with 'expected error, got success'

• Type: Bug
• Resolution: Fixed
• Priority: Critical
• Fix Version/s: Lustre 2.13.0
• Affects Version/s: Lustre 2.13.0
• Environment: ARM clients
• Severity: 3
• Assignee: Patrick Farrell (Inactive)
• Reporter: James Nunez (Inactive)

Description

sanity test_43b fails with 'expected error, got success' primarily for ARM architecture client testing. This test started failing on 2019-04-30.

Looking at one of the recent failures, logs at https://testing.whamcloud.com/test_sets/d1626222-6b7d-11e9-aeec-52540065bddc, we see the following in the suite_log

== sanity test 43b: truncate of file being executed should return -ETXTBSY =========================== 17:02:16 (1556643736)
 sanity test_43b: @@@@@@ FAIL: expected error, got success 
/usr/lib64/lustre/tests/sanity.sh: line 4172: /mnt/lustre/d43b.sanity/sleep: Text file busy

There are no errors in any of the node console logs.

There are several instances of this failure. Logs for a few are at
https://testing.whamcloud.com/test_sets/ea9ca12c-6b72-11e9-aeec-52540065bddc
https://testing.whamcloud.com/test_sets/1c74df3c-6b8e-11e9-8bb1-52540065bddc

There are a small number of x86_64 client failures
https://testing.whamcloud.com/test_sets/376809d8-6b78-11e9-a6f2-52540065bddc

Issue Links

• is related to: LU-12195 sanity/43 and sanityn/14 fail on local setups