action #153111
Updated by waynechen55 11 months ago
## Observation
According to http://open.qa/api/testapi/, reset_consoles can be used to ensure next select_console really activates a console. But it seems that this is not true for sol console:
```
select_console 'sol', await_console => 0;
reset_consoles;
select_console 'sol', await_console => 0;
```
The sol console can not be activated anymore after operations shown in above code block. Screenshot captured by openQA looks like as below:
![](inactive_ipmi_sol_console.png)
## Steps to reproduce
* select_console 'sol', await_console => 0;
* reset_consoles;
* select_console 'sol', await_console => 0;
The machine on which this openQA instance run has been given a fresh reinstall. It runs new Leap 15.5 system. And I installed openQA on this machine by using:
```
curl -s https://raw.githubusercontent.com/os-autoinst/openQA/master/script/openqa-bootstrap | bash -x
```
## Impact
Can not use reset_consoles with select_console.
## Problem
Maybe the sol console is not cleaned up completely by reset_consoles.
## Suggestions
* Clarify whether reset_consoles work well with sol console
* What reset_consoles does to sol console
## Workaround
n/a