1 files changed, 26 insertions, 9 deletions

diff --git a/meta/lib/oeqa/runtime/cases/ping.py b/meta/lib/oeqa/runtime/cases/ping.py
index f6603f75ec..efb91d4cc9 100644
--- a/meta/lib/oeqa/runtime/cases/ping.py
+++ b/meta/lib/oeqa/runtime/cases/ping.py
@@ -1,11 +1,15 @@
 #
+# Copyright OpenEmbedded Contributors
+#
 # SPDX-License-Identifier: MIT
 #
 
 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
 
 class PingTest(OERuntimeTestCase):
 
@@ -13,14 +17,27 @@ class PingTest(OERuntimeTestCase):
     def test_ping(self):
         output = ''
         count = 0
-        while count < 5:
-            cmd = 'ping -c 1 %s' % self.target.ip
-            proc = Popen(cmd, shell=True, stdout=PIPE)
-            output += proc.communicate()[0].decode('utf-8')
-            if proc.poll() == 0:
-                count += 1
-            else:
-                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
+                proc = Popen(cmd, shell=True, stdout=PIPE)
+                output += proc.communicate()[0].decode('utf-8')
+                if proc.poll() == 0:
+                    count += 1
+                else:
+                    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))
         self.assertEqual(count, 5, msg = msg)