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On oss-cobbler-03 (remote worker), after a reboot, os-autoinst-openvswitch.service fails with:

× os-autoinst-openvswitch.service - os-autoinst openvswitch helper
     Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/os-autoinst-openvswitch.service; enabled; vendor preset: disabled)
     Active: failed (Result: exit-code) since Mon 2023-12-11 08:00:43 GMT; 2min 49s ago
    Process: 1820 ExecStart=/usr/lib/os-autoinst/os-autoinst-openvswitch (code=exited, status=255/EXCEPTION)
   Main PID: 1820 (code=exited, status=255/EXCEPTION)

Dec 11 08:00:37 oss-cobbler-03 os-autoinst-openvswitch[1820]: Waiting for IP on bridge 'br1', 7s left ...
Dec 11 08:00:38 oss-cobbler-03 os-autoinst-openvswitch[1820]: Waiting for IP on bridge 'br1', 6s left ...
Dec 11 08:00:39 oss-cobbler-03 os-autoinst-openvswitch[1820]: Waiting for IP on bridge 'br1', 5s left ...
Dec 11 08:00:40 oss-cobbler-03 os-autoinst-openvswitch[1820]: Waiting for IP on bridge 'br1', 4s left ...
Dec 11 08:00:41 oss-cobbler-03 os-autoinst-openvswitch[1820]: Waiting for IP on bridge 'br1', 3s left ...
Dec 11 08:00:42 oss-cobbler-03 os-autoinst-openvswitch[1820]: Waiting for IP on bridge 'br1', 2s left ...
Dec 11 08:00:43 oss-cobbler-03 os-autoinst-openvswitch[1820]: can't parse bridge local port IP at /usr/lib/os-autoinst/os-autoinst-openvswitch line 68.
Dec 11 08:00:43 oss-cobbler-03 os-autoinst-openvswitch[1820]: Waiting for IP on bridge 'br1', 1s left ...
Dec 11 08:00:43 oss-cobbler-03 systemd[1]: os-autoinst-openvswitch.service: Main process exited, code=exited, status=255/EXCEPTION
Dec 11 08:00:43 oss-cobbler-03 systemd[1]: os-autoinst-openvswitch.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'.

A simple systemctl status os-autoinst-openvswitch.service fix the problem:

● os-autoinst-openvswitch.service - os-autoinst openvswitch helper
     Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/os-autoinst-openvswitch.service; enabled; vendor preset: disabled)
     Active: active (running) since Mon 2023-12-11 08:03:36 GMT; 862ms ago
   Main PID: 16090 (os-autoinst-ope)
      Tasks: 1 (limit: 4915)
     CGroup: /system.slice/os-autoinst-openvswitch.service
             └─ 16090 /usr/bin/perl /usr/lib/os-autoinst/os-autoinst-openvswitch

Dec 11 08:03:36 oss-cobbler-03 systemd[1]: Starting os-autoinst openvswitch helper...
Dec 11 08:03:36 oss-cobbler-03 systemd[1]: Started os-autoinst openvswitch helper.

Any idea how to fix this issue properly?