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[Sergio Schvezov <sergio.schvezov@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On miércoles 2 de julio de 2014 04h'44:59 ART, Martin Pitt wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> with autopkgtest now being able to run click tests on the phone [1]

Thanks for doing this :-)

> I'd like to fine-tune the ADB setup script to require less manual
> action.
>
> One outstanding issue is to unlock Unity before starting a test. I
> know the unity8-autopilot package ships a
> /usr/share/unity8/unlock-device script; the setup script could
> certainly download/unpack that package and run the script, but that's
> ugly in several ways:
>
>  - The script reboots the phone; surely there is a way to unlock Unity
>    without having to do that? This adds a whole minute to
>    each test run, and also destroys any other runtime setup that might
>    have been done before.

I bet you just need to restart unity (for introspection) and not the whole 
device and you can probably get away with that if you boot with the 
testability flag on for the whole session (and if you decide to proceed on 
this course of action, I would also add it as a flashing option for 
devices).

Currently the status quo is to flag stuff in /userdata/.[action] and have 
an upstart job that checks on it and does the right thing.

>  - Relying on external additional dependencies introduces another
>    point of potential breakage.

+1, there have been three attempts to get this into phablet-tools without 
success to remove this dependency.

> Isn't there something easier which doesn't require all that, like
> changing a configuration value and simply restarting unity itself, or
> sending Unity a D-BUS call?

I proposed this once and was told it could be a security issue. Now that 
split greeter isn't landing; not sure it's that much of a problem.