test/legacy/dtest/dtest fails on RHEL8 and does not run under python3
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Description
The shebang line in test/legacy/dtest/dtest is #!/usr/bin/python referring to an un-versioned python executable. No such executable exists on RHEL8 by default, nor on other more modern releases of major distros.
$ dtest/dtest
bash: dtest/dtest: /usr/bin/python: bad interpreter: No such file or directory
In addition, it does not run under python3.
$ python3 dtest/dtest
File "dtest/dtest", line 10
print '\ncould not load argparse'
^
SyntaxError: Missing parentheses in call to 'print'. Did you mean print('\ncould not load argparse')?
modern distros generally do not provide python2 at all, and do not provide it by default. dtest should probably be updated to run under python3, or replaced.
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Research direction
Start with test/legacy/dtest/dtest and run it with python3 to reproduce the syntax error, then inspect its Python 2-specific syntax and unversioned shebang. Done means dtest runs under Python 3 on modern distributions without the missing /usr/bin/python interpreter failure.
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- python
- Domain
- testing-qa
- Issue type
- Bug
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- Estimated time
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- Newbie friendliness
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