Comment 5 for bug 1654025

On Jan 04, 2017, at 10:28 PM, Iain Lane wrote:

>I did notice that rebooting took a little while to happen when I ran
>'reboot' from within a container, so a theory to investigate is whether
>this is actually a delayed previous reboot request taking down the
>script. nvidia is quite big so it might be acting as a synchronisation
>point making the apt-get source line of investigation a red herring.

Note that in autopkgtests you are *not* supposed to call reboot directly, but
instead /tmp/autopkgtest-reboot because otherwise no state is preserved
between reboots. You also need to set the needs-reboot restriction, and be
careful about which testbeds you use.

See README.package-tests.rst for an extensive discussion about tests which
need to reboot.