; Summary: One test that hangs the machine disrupts all following scheduled tests
; Owner: Tim
; Reporter: Tim
; Status: closed
; Priority: very high

= Description =
One test that hangs a machine (like Interbench on bbb), causes all subsequent
automated tests to fail.

Fuego needs to gracefully recover from this (which requires either manual
intervention, or reboot of the hardware).

I have the capability for this, but I'm not sure where to put it.
 new: ov_hardware_reboot?

This is simple for a ttc-based client, but may be hard if automated power
cycling is not possible.

Fuego should automatically do a hardware reboot, if the board 
health detection fails (in ov_transport_connect)

We need better error handling in ov_transport_connect - it ends
up in signal_handler, when it should be issuing it's own error message
and let the caller decide what to do.

pre_test should reboot the board if it can't connect. - No - that covers
up lab problems.

NO, NO, NO - post_test should check for dead board, and reboot it then,
with a massive failure message in the test that just ran!


= Notes =
Support for ov_board_control_reboot was added in post_test.

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