2 files changed, 9 insertions, 3 deletions

diff --git a/meta/lib/oeqa/runtime/cases/ptest.py b/meta/lib/oeqa/runtime/cases/ptest.py
index 3ef9022188..23a71ea064 100644
--- a/meta/lib/oeqa/runtime/cases/ptest.py
+++ b/meta/lib/oeqa/runtime/cases/ptest.py
@@ -83,12 +83,15 @@ class PtestRunnerTest(OERuntimeTestCase):
 
         extras['ptestresult.sections'] = sections
 
+        zerolength = []
         trans = str.maketrans("()", "__")
         for section in results:
             for test in results[section]:
                 result = results[section][test]
                 testname = "ptestresult." + (section or "No-section") + "." + "_".join(test.translate(trans).split())
                 extras[testname] = {'status': result}
+            if not results[section]:
+                zerolength.append(section)
 
         failed_tests = {}
 
@@ -107,7 +110,10 @@ class PtestRunnerTest(OERuntimeTestCase):
             failmsg = "ERROR: Processes were killed by the OOM Killer:\n%s\n" % output
 
         if failed_tests:
-            failmsg = failmsg + "Failed ptests:\n%s" % pprint.pformat(failed_tests)
+            failmsg = failmsg + "\nFailed ptests:\n%s\n" % pprint.pformat(failed_tests)
+
+        if zerolength:
+            failmsg = failmsg + "\nptests which had no test results:\n%s" % pprint.pformat(zerolength)
 
         if failmsg:
             self.logger.warning("There were failing ptests.")
diff --git a/meta/lib/oeqa/utils/logparser.py b/meta/lib/oeqa/utils/logparser.py
index 7cb79a8402..60df754b36 100644
--- a/meta/lib/oeqa/utils/logparser.py
+++ b/meta/lib/oeqa/utils/logparser.py
@@ -44,6 +44,8 @@ class PtestParser(object):
                 result = section_regex['begin'].search(line)
                 if result:
                     current_section['name'] = result.group(1)
+                    if current_section['name'] not in self.results:
+                        self.results[current_section['name']] = {}
                     continue
 
                 result = section_regex['end'].search(line)
@@ -75,8 +77,6 @@ class PtestParser(object):
                 for t in test_regex:
                     result = test_regex[t].search(line)
                     if result:
-                        if current_section['name'] not in self.results:
-                            self.results[current_section['name']] = {}
                         self.results[current_section['name']][result.group(1).strip()] = t
 
         # Python performance for repeatedly joining long strings is poor, do it all at once at the end.