Remote test execution fails with 'TERM not set' on cloud VMs

[sayalibhavsar]

Problem

The ansible shell task in ansible_roles/roles/test_generic/tasks/main.yml that executes tests does not set the TERM environment variable. Cloud VMs have bare environments without TERM, causing commands that depend on terminal capabilities to fail.

Impact

Test execution fails on cloud VMs with "TERM not set" errors.

Location

ansible_roles/roles/test_generic/tasks/main.yml — the "execute the test" shell task.

Suggested fix

Prepend TERM=xterm to the shell command:

shell: "TERM=xterm /tmp/{{ test_data.test_name }}.cmd"

[kdvalin]

:/ Why doe we need the TERM set? What tests are erroring out presently? Can you provide an ansible run log?