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Some reneedling was required; The aarch64 RAID jobs of 15SP1 and 15SP2 QUs should be passing consistently now.

Concerning the irregular reconnect_mgmt_console failure, this issue is actually caused in await_install.
The reboot message at the end of the installation has a default timeout of 10 seconds.
In some archs like aarch64 and s390, it happens that await_install module's needle check is not catching up with the 10 second timeout, and reboot is not cancelled.
This results in the machine rebooting when it should not, and failing in the next module, reconnect_mgmt_console.

In order to fix this issue, PR_1 and PR2 were introduced.
This allows for the following usage, as seen in lib/bootloader_setup.pm:
push @params, 'reboot_timeout=' . get_var('REBOOT_TIMEOUT', 0) unless (is_leap('<15.2') || is_sle('<15-SP2'));

The above line, by default, pushes in the list of bootparams the reboot_timeout=0 which, for 15-SP2 that contains the two aforementioned PR changes, removes the timeout on the reboot message and openQA will have time to catch up.

However, in 15-SP1 this boot parameter is not checked, so there is no straightforward way of changing or disabling the timeout.
The suggested approach here is to request a backport of this for yast in SLE 15-SP1.

Since it is not likely that there will ever be a new 15-SP1 QU release, the backport approach remains a suggestion for now.