Check that system status is marked Good after update in release-validation tests#305
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A "naive" check fails currently, because /boot/status.ini gets corrupted due an (unclean) system_reset "soon" after an install (which is the equivalent of a power plug). The existing statusfile-recovery does not seem to be sufficient. It might be due to this being run in a VM and/or due to using a virtual file-backed disk, but illustrates a problem with using a FAT filesystem for persisting RAUC's status file. Unfortunately, there is no way to trigger a "clean" reboot and no easy way to fix this for existing systems and their DISK images, so instead we work-around the issue by giving time for an unmount/fsync to happen.
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This is extracted from #293, decoupling the RAUC status file fixes from the actual checking that status is marked as Good post reboot.
A "naive" check fails currently, because /boot/status.ini gets corrupted due an (unclean) system_reset "soon" after an install (which is the equivalent of a power plug). The existing statusfile-recovery does not seem to be sufficient. It might be due to this being run in a VM and/or due to using a virtual file-backed disk, but illustrates a problem with using a FAT filesystem for persisting RAUC's status file.
Unfortunately, there is no way to trigger a "clean" reboot and no easy way to fix this for existing systems and their DISK images, so instead we work-around the issue by giving time for an unmount/fsync to happen.