There seems to be a bug in LAVA. I was on version 2022.04 and have also tried 2023.03. Both versions have the same bug.

The same configurations works in a 2018 build of LAVA on an old machine.

I am trying to connect to an always on board via ssh.

The healthcheck is failing with this error :

lava-dispatcher,
 installed at version: 2023.03

start:
 0 validate

Start
 time: 2023-04-12 14:07:00.373707+00:00 (UTC)

Traceback
 (most recent call last):   File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/lava_dispatcher/job.py", line 198, in validate     self._validate()   File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/lava_dispatcher/job.py", line 183, in _validate     self.pipeline.validate_actions()
   File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/lava_dispatcher/action.py", line 190, in validate_actions     action.validate()   File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/lava_dispatcher/actions/deploy/ssh.py", line 81, in validate     if "serial" not in self.job.device["actions"]["deploy"]["connections"]:
 KeyError: 'connections'

validate
 duration: 0.00

case:
 validate

case_id: 244238

definition: lava

result: fail

Cleaning
 after the job

Root
 tmp directory removed at /var/lib/lava/dispatcher/tmp/8857

LAVABug:
 This is probably a bug in LAVA, please report it.

case:
 job

case_id: 244239

definition: lava

error_msg: 'connections'

error_type: Bug

result: fail

The health check looks like this:

job_name: SSH check

timeouts:

job:

minutes: 10

action:

minutes: 2

priority: medium

visibility: public

actions:

- deploy:

timeout: # timeout for the connection attempt

seconds: 30

to: ssh

os: oe

- boot:

timeout:

minutes: 2

prompts: ['root@(.*):~#']

method: ssh

connection: ssh

- test:

timeout:

minutes: 5

definitions:

- repository:

metadata:

format: Lava-Test Test Definition 1.0

name: smoke-tests-basic

description: "Basic smoke test"

run:

steps:

- lava-test-case linux-linaro-ubuntu-pwd --shell pwd

- lava-test-case linux-linaro-ubuntu-uname --shell uname -a

- lava-test-case linux-linaro-ubuntu-vmstat --shell vmstat

- lava-test-case linux-linaro-ubuntu-ip --shell ip a

from: inline

name: smoke-tests-basic

Any ideas ?

Best regards,