1 files changed, 9 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/meta/lib/oeqa/runtime/cases/ping.py b/meta/lib/oeqa/runtime/cases/ping.py
index f72460e7f3..efb91d4cc9 100644
--- a/meta/lib/oeqa/runtime/cases/ping.py
+++ b/meta/lib/oeqa/runtime/cases/ping.py
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@
 from subprocess import Popen, PIPE
 from time import sleep
 
-from oeqa.runtime.case import OERuntimeTestCase
+from oeqa.runtime.case import OERuntimeTestCase, run_network_serialdebug
 from oeqa.core.decorator.oetimeout import OETimeout
 from oeqa.core.exception import OEQATimeoutError
 
@@ -18,6 +18,13 @@ class PingTest(OERuntimeTestCase):
         output = ''
         count = 0
         self.assertNotEqual(len(self.target.ip), 0, msg="No target IP address set")
+
+        # If the target IP is localhost (because user-space networking is being used),
+        # then there's no point in pinging it.
+        if self.target.ip.startswith("127.0.0.") or self.target.ip in ("localhost", "::1"):
+            print("runtime/ping: localhost detected, not pinging")
+            return
+
         try:
             while count < 5:
                 cmd = 'ping -c 1 %s' % self.target.ip
@@ -29,6 +36,7 @@ class PingTest(OERuntimeTestCase):
                     count = 0
                     sleep(1)
         except OEQATimeoutError:
+            run_network_serialdebug(self.target.runner)
             self.fail("Ping timeout error for address %s, count %s, output: %s" % (self.target.ip, count, output))
         msg = ('Expected 5 consecutive, got %d.\n'
                'ping output is:\n%s' % (count,output))