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fix(e2e): bound post-install-prep calls and make its failures name their cause - #4632

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The post-install-prep step of the e2e install could hang without failing, and several of its failure paths gave up without saying why. The script runs in the background of the install test, which waits on it, so a kubectl call that never returns keeps the install open until the job's own timeout. This PR fixes both problems in hack/e2e-post-install-prep.sh.

  • Every call that does work now has a wall-clock bound: the pool listing and creates, both applies, the CDI patch, the reads in the LINSTOR node loop, and the diagnostic reads on every failure path. Plain requests also get a smaller --request-timeout, so kubectl can say why a request failed before the outer timeout kills it. When a bound fires, the log names the call.
  • kubectl wait --timeout turned out to be no bound at all for the GET it runs first, so each wait attempt got an outer timeout too. If that timeout cuts an attempt, the timeout line says so.
  • The wait loop keeps kubectl's stderr now. An expired credential or an RBAC denial used to look the same as "not created yet" and ended in a timeout on the object. Each error is printed once when it changes, and the timeout line repeats the last one.
  • When the linstor wait times out, the script lists every HelmRelease first. The linstor release can be just waiting for a release further up the dependency chain, and the Ready messages name which one.
  • The MetalLB CRD wait and the CDI StorageProfile wait used to exit silently. Now they print a timeout line and one last read of the missing object with its error. The MetalLB wait also prints the metallb HelmRelease.
  • A failed or killed storage pool listing stops the script before any pool is created. Before, it read as "no pools exist", and the creates that followed failed with an unrelated error.

All of this is tested in hack/post-install-prep.bats with the existing stub PATH and virtual clock. One test checks that every kubectl call on the success path and on each timeout path runs under a bound. The literal grep in hack/linstor-storage-mode_test.bats is replaced with a test of the behaviour.

The rest of #3680 lives outside this script and moves to #4628: the empty {"error":{}} in helm-controller's Helm log, previous-container logs on passing runs, and node and pod resource state during install.

Closes #3708, closes #3707, closes #3713, closes #3714, closes #3680.

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fix(e2e): bound every call in the post-install-prep step and make its failures name their cause, so a hung call fails the install instead of holding it until the job timeout

Summary by CodeRabbit

  • Reliability
    • Cluster operations now have bounded wait times, with clearer diagnostics when resources or endpoints are delayed or unavailable.
    • Storage setup stops when pool listings fail instead of masking the error.
  • Tests
    • Expanded coverage for timeout handling, error reporting, and failures during storage and resource setup.

The install step blocks in `wait` on this script, so a kubectl call
that never returns does not fail the step: it holds it open until the
job's own ceiling cancels the run, which leaves different evidence
behind than a failed test. Only the waits carried a budget. The execs
that create storage pools, the applies, the CDI patch, and the reads
inside the LINSTOR node loop did not, and the loop's deadline is
checked between iterations, on the other side of a call that hangs.

The reads that explain a node-loop timeout were unbounded too, on the
one path that runs only when the cluster is already unhealthy.

Each call now runs under an outer timeout, and plain requests carry a
client timeout strictly inside it so kubectl names the reason before
the kill lands. The helpers take the bound as a prefix that stays empty
when unit tests source them, since `timeout` would bypass the kubectl
function those tests substitute.

Assisted-by: LLM
Signed-off-by: Aleksei Sviridkin <[email protected]>
The loop discarded stderr to stay quiet while an object is not
created yet, since `kubectl wait` exits non-zero at once on NotFound.
An expired credential or an RBAC denial exits the same way, so the loop
retried a client that could never succeed for the whole budget and
then reported a timeout on the object, pointing at the cluster while
the cause sat in the client.

Each attempt's stderr is now kept and printed whenever it changes, and
the timeout line repeats the last one. A NotFound repeated every poll
still costs a single line. The text is printed rather than matched to
fail fast: apiserver restarts during install produce the same
connection and auth errors transiently, and a match list would turn a
slow link into a false failure.

Assisted-by: LLM
Signed-off-by: Aleksei Sviridkin <[email protected]>
When the linstor HelmRelease never goes Ready, the script reported a
timeout on linstor and dumped the cozy-linstor pods and events. In two
failing install runs the linstor release only sat behind a dependency
chain (kubeovn -> piraeus-operator-crds -> piraeus-operator -> linstor),
so the evidence it printed described the wrong release and said
nothing about the one that was stuck.

The timeout now lists every HelmRelease first. Each Ready message names
the dependency it waits on, so the post-install-prep log names the
release at the head of the chain.

Signed-off-by: Aleksei Sviridkin <[email protected]>
Assisted-by: LLM
Both waits ran as `timeout N sh -ec 'until kubectl get ...'` with the
read's output discarded. On elapse `timeout` exits 124 and `set -e`
ends the script, so the last line in the log is the one announcing the
wait: CRDs that are late and an operator that never got far enough to
install them read the same.

A shared deadline loop now polls quietly and, on the way out, reads the
objects once more with stderr kept, so the log names which object is
missing. The MetalLB wait also lists the metallb HelmRelease, whose
state separates those two cases. The loop runs on the script's own
clock, which lets the unit suite drive it with the virtual one.

The unit suite's runaway guard in the sleep stub now kills its caller
as well, because a failing exit status does not stop a loop that runs
where set -e is off, and a guard that cannot stop the loop turns a
broken deadline into a hung test.

Assisted-by: LLM
Signed-off-by: Aleksei Sviridkin <[email protected]>
The storage pool listing was piped straight into awk, so its exit
status was lost: a listing that failed, or one killed by its time
bound, read as "no pools exist yet". The script then sent a create for
every node, and on the nodes whose pool did exist the create failed
with a reason unrelated to the actual failure.

The listing now runs on its own, so a failure stops the script before
any pool is created. A bound that fires leaves no text of its own:
`timeout` prints nothing and kubectl dies on the signal before it can.
The bounded calls therefore go through a wrapper that names the call
it killed, so the log does not end on the step's announcement line.

Assisted-by: LLM
Signed-off-by: Aleksei Sviridkin <[email protected]>
`kubectl wait --timeout` looked like a bound on the wait loop's calls,
but it covers only the watch. The command first resolves the object
with a plain GET that has no deadline, since no --request-timeout is
set, so an apiserver that accepts the connection and never answers
holds the wait loop, the most frequently repeated call in the script,
just like the calls that were unbounded outright.

Each attempt now runs under an outer timeout set a little above the
attempt's own --timeout, so the wait still owns its normal expiry.

Assisted-by: LLM
Signed-off-by: Aleksei Sviridkin <[email protected]>
When the outer timeout cut a `kubectl wait` attempt, nothing was
printed: `timeout` is silent and kubectl dies on the signal. The
timeout line then read "last kubectl error: none", which says the
client had nothing to report rather than that it was killed
mid-request. The attempt's exit status now names that case.

The errors the loop prints also carry the script's prefix. The first
NotFound shows up on every green run, since the release appears about
a minute in, and without the prefix it reads like a failure when the
log is scanned after one.

Assisted-by: LLM
Signed-off-by: Aleksei Sviridkin <[email protected]>
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The post-install preparation script bounds cluster calls and adds polling helpers for Kubernetes objects. LINSTOR waits retain kubectl errors and collect timeout diagnostics. CDI StorageProfile and MetalLB CRD waits use individual budgets. Bats tests cover these paths and related failure cases.

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Post-install cluster bounds

Layer / File(s) Summary
Bounded calls and reusable waits
hack/e2e-post-install-prep.sh, hack/post-install-prep.bats
The script adds a bounded-call wrapper and a reusable object wait. Tests cover bounded calls, polling paths, and a virtual-clock guard.
LINSTOR waits, diagnostics, and pool listing
hack/e2e-post-install-prep.sh, hack/post-install-prep.bats
LINSTOR waits retain changing kubectl errors and collect HelmRelease, pod, and event diagnostics on timeout. Node probes and pool listings use bounded calls. Tests cover wait errors, termination statuses, diagnostics, and pool-listing failures.
CDI and MetalLB object waits
hack/e2e-post-install-prep.sh, hack/linstor-storage-mode_test.bats, hack/post-install-prep.bats
Container mode waits for the CDI StorageProfile before patching it. The MetalLB CRD wait has a 300-second budget and reports the cozy-metallb HelmRelease on failure. Tests check wait behavior, patch ordering, and request timeouts.

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Linked Issues check ⚠️ Warning The changes implement the coding requirements in [#3708], [#3707], [#3713], and [#3714]. They bound work calls and diagnostic reads, preserve changed kubectl wait errors, report outer wait terminati… Complete the remaining [#3680] diagnostics in this change, or narrow the linked issue scope. Add collection and tests for the Helm error cause, previous-container logs on passing runs, and node and pod resource state during install.
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The changes implement the coding requirements in [#3708], [#3707], [#3713], and [#3714]. They bound work calls and diagnostic reads, preserve changed kubectl wait errors, report outer wait termination, and add MetalLB CRD and HelmRelease diagnostics. They only partially implement [#3680]. The diff lists HelmReleases on a LINSTOR timeout, but it does not add the remaining install evidence identified by the issue: the empty Helm error cause, previous-container logs on passing runs, and node and pod resource state during install.

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- Line 158: Update the timeout invocation in bounded to enable GNU timeout’s
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CALL_BOUND=300
bounded() {
bounded_rc=0
timeout -k 5 "$CALL_BOUND" "$@" || bounded_rc=$?

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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Report timeout escalation without misclassifying remote kills.

If kubectl ignores SIGTERM, timeout -k 5 escalates to SIGKILL and returns 137. bounded then returns failure without identifying the call that exceeded its bound. GNU timeout --verbose reports signals that it sends, without treating a remote command’s exit status 137 as a local timeout. (gnu.org)

Enable that diagnostic and update the timeout stub to accept --verbose. Keep the remote-kill distinction.

Based on learnings, timeout escalation can return 137.

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-  timeout -k 5 "$CALL_BOUND" "$@" || bounded_rc=$?
+  timeout --verbose -k 5 "$CALL_BOUND" "$@" || bounded_rc=$?
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Verdict

LGTM

Reviewed at 735486fc against merge-base 9ac67d76. Every bound and fail-closed path the PR adds was mutation-tested and holds; no regression against the merge-base on any run path.

Caveats

  • Hermetic static review: no cluster was touched. The kubectl calls and the --request-timeout global flag are stubbed by the suites; kubectl events and --request-timeout are real and used correctly, but their live behaviour was not exercised here. timeout -k / 124 / 137 semantics were verified locally (GNU coreutils 8.32, same family as the CI ubuntu runner).
  • kubectl get hr -A ... | tail -n 300 on the linstor timeout path caps the dump at 300 lines; on a cluster with >300 HelmReleases the blocking release could be truncated out. Diagnostic-only, hack/-scoped, non-blocking.

Checked and correct

  • Caller contract: hack/e2e-install-cozystack.bats:197 runs the script with &, then wait "$PID" and exit 1 on non-zero, so "a hung call fails the install instead of holding it to the job ceiling" reaches the install end-to-end.
  • Fail-closed pool listing: splitting the read from the awk pipe makes a failed/killed linstor sp l abort under set -e before any pool is created. Mechanism and old fail-open shape both verified:
$ dash -c 'set -eu; x=$(false); echo REACHED'; echo rc=$?                   # new form
rc=1                                                                         # aborts, REACHED not printed
$ dash -c 'set -eu; x=$(false | awk "{print}"); echo REACHED'; echo rc=$?   # old piped form
REACHED
rc=0
  • Non-vacuity, 4 hand-mutations (review-helper mutate reports bats/shell are "NOT measured by this sweep"), each reverted after:
    • revert pool_list to the piped form: storage pool listing killed and remote command killed both RED (rc -ne 0 fails; script no longer stops).
    • drop the CDI wait_for_object before the patch: container mode waits for the CDI StorageProfile before patching it RED ([ -n "$got" ]) and CDI StorageProfile wait ... before any patch RED. The rewritten linstor-storage-mode_test.bats loses no coverage; the deleted literal grep is replaced by a stronger get-before-patch ordering check.
    • remove one $KUBECTL_BOUND: every kubectl call ... carries a bound RED (prints UNBOUNDED apply ...).
    • drop --request-timeout=60s from the patch: container mode pins CDI local StorageProfile RED.
  • Negated-assertion safety: every "must not happen" check uses the positive if grep ...; then return 1; fi form, not the fragile ! cmd, so it reddens under the CI runner (hack/cozytest.sh fidelity confirmed on one test).
  • 124 vs 137: bounded() names only 124; a remote OOM 137 passes through and is surfaced by kubectl's own stderr (test remote command killed ... not reported as the bound firing). wait_for_linstor treats 124|137 as its outer kill, correct because kubectl wait has no remote exec.
  • Both DRBD modes green (linstor-storage-mode_test.bats 17/17). dash -n clean; shellcheck clean except the pre-existing SC2317 false-positive on the lib-return guard.
  • Fail-open sweep over the diff: the two 2>/dev/null hits (controller_reachable, node-list loop) are readiness polls that fail closed at a bounded deadline, both pre-existing; the only genuine merge-base fail-open (pool list piped to awk) is exactly what this PR fixes.

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