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[core][powerVM]test fails in NET-BOOT bootloader due to ask for root password for encrypted disk

Added by rfan1 3 months ago. Updated 2 months ago.

Status:
Resolved
Priority:
Normal
Assignee:
rfan1
Category:
Bugs in existing tests
Target version:
QA (public) - future
Start date:
2025-03-17
Due date:
% Done:

0%

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Description

Description

This is not the first time we hit this sporadic issue on powerVM setups.
Net boot failed and got stuck at asking for password root disk. we tried some workaround before like SET_NVRAM_DEFAULTS=1, but didn't fix the problem.

I can't tell the stable reproduce steps, but seems it happens more after sle16 installation with root disk encrypted.

I tried some workaround which is mentioned in https://github.com/os-autoinst/os-autoinst-distri-opensuse/pull/21407 however I don't think it is a perfect solution.

Please see https://suse.slack.com/archives/C02CLB2LB7Z/p1742210735779749 for more detailed information. maybe tools team has perfect solution for this.

Thanks,
Richard.

Observation

openQA test in scenario sle-16.0-Online-ppc64le-create_hdd_textmode@tinawang123/os-autoinst-distri-opensuse#ssh@ppc64le-hmc-single-disk fails in
bootloader

Test suite description

The base test suite is used for job templates defined in YAML documents. It has no settings of its own.

Reproducible

Fails since (at least) Build tinawang123/os-autoinst-distri-opensuse#ssh (current job)

Expected result

Last good: (unknown) (or more recent)

Further details

Always latest result in this scenario: latest

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 #1

Updated by JERiveraMoya 3 months ago

It is sporadic in the sense that happens if the reused lpar has previously installed a sle 16 system encrypted, using the same lpar and running and encrypted scenario previously should be 100% reproducible and it is expected that one of the two passphrase will be prompted before grub.

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Updated by okurz 3 months ago

  • Project changed from openQA Infrastructure (public) to openQA Tests (public)
  • Subject changed from [tools][powerVM]test fails in NET-BOOT bootloader due to ask for root password for encrypted disk to [core][powerVM]test fails in NET-BOOT bootloader due to ask for root password for encrypted disk
  • Category set to Bugs in existing tests
  • Target version set to future

Sorry, I don't see how we can help here. The issue does not ring a bell

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Updated by rfan1 3 months ago

  • Status changed from New to In Progress
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Updated by rfan1 3 months ago

  • Status changed from In Progress to Feedback
  • Assignee set to rfan1
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Updated by rfan1 2 months ago

  • Status changed from Feedback to Resolved

Let me close it for now since no failure seen in passed few days

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