It just so happens that our JSON snippets in qemucapabilitiesdata/*.replies files are separated by an empty line. These empty lines are then overwritten to make a single line JSON. Nevertheless, the line counter @line is not incremented which then leads to a misleading numbers in errors: Signed-off-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn(a)redhat.com&gt; --- tests/qemumonitortestutils.c | 3 +++ 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+) diff --git a/tests/qemumonitortestutils.c b/tests/qemumonitortestutils.c index 46791931b0..4e99c4b54e 100644 --- a/tests/qemumonitortestutils.c +++ b/tests/qemumonitortestutils.c @@ -1302,6 +1302,9 @@ qemuMonitorTestProcessFileEntries(char *inputstr, continue; } + /* We've seen a new line, increment the counter */ + line++; + /* Cut off a single reply. */ *(tmp + 1) = '\0'; -- 2.38.2