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this issue is strange, it seems that sending "up" key from "stop_grub_timeout" failed:

[2022-10-19T17:04:22.360626+02:00] [debug] >>> testapi::_handle_found_needle: found bootmenu-SLES15-2-generic-20201002, similarity 1.00 @ 97/205
[2022-10-19T17:04:22.362299+02:00] [debug] tests/boot/grub_test_snapshot.pm:29 called bootloader_setup::stop_grub_timeout -> lib/bootloader_setup.pm:81 called testapi::send_key
[2022-10-19T17:04:22.362785+02:00] [debug] <<< testapi::send_key(key="up", wait_screen_change=0, do_wait=0)
[2022-10-19T17:04:22.638626+02:00] [debug] tests/boot/grub_test_snapshot.pm:30 called bootloader_setup::boot_into_snapshot -> lib/bootloader_setup.pm:295 called testapi::send_key_until_needlematch

I don't know why so far, and I am researching it.

I spent some time to investigate this issue, and it worked well after changing the grub timeout like this:

diff --git a/tests/boot/grub_test_snapshot.pm b/tests/boot/grub_test_snapshot.pm
index 91cc77b13..1cff6b7a4 100644
--- a/tests/boot/grub_test_snapshot.pm
+++ b/tests/boot/grub_test_snapshot.pm
@@ -13,13 +13,15 @@ use base 'opensusebasetest';
 use testapi;
 use power_action_utils 'power_action';
 use utils qw(workaround_type_encrypted_passphrase reconnect_mgmt_console);
-use bootloader_setup qw(stop_grub_timeout boot_into_snapshot);
+use bootloader_setup qw(stop_grub_timeout boot_into_snapshot change_grub_config grub_mkconfig);
 use Utils::Backends 'is_pvm';

 sub run {
     my $self = shift;

     select_console 'root-console';
+    change_grub_config('=.*', '=-1', 'GRUB_TIMEOUT', '', 1);
     power_action('reboot', keepconsole => 1, textmode => 1);
     reset_consoles;
     reconnect_mgmt_console if is_pvm;

this is the instance: https://openqa.suse.de/tests/9853796

I have create this PR for this issue:
https://github.com/os-autoinst/os-autoinst-distri-opensuse/pull/15828

there is another issue about installation.pm module related to this case,
and I create a new ticket for it:
https://progress.opensuse.org/issues/119515

this ticket was resolvd, PR was merged.