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Thanks Lee.
it was causing problems for a long time.
Thanks,
Arkady

On Wed, Aug 18, 2021 at 5:09 PM Lee Yarwood <lyarwood at redhat.com> wrote:

> Hello all,
>
> For a while now we've been attempting to track down some infrequent but
> annoying Tempest test cleanup failures in CI when detaching volumes from
> an instance. Finally after rewriting part of the Tempest logic
> controlling the cleanup we've been able to confirm that this is being
> caused by a kernel panic within the instance at boot time as documented
> in the following bug:
>
> Failure to detach volume during Tempest test cleanup due to APIC related
> kernel panic within the guest OS
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/nova/+bug/1939108
>
> This had been previously found in 2014 but at the time a fix was only
> proposed to Nova that would solve this when using a supplied kernel
> image:
>
> cirros 0.3.1 fails to boot
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/cirros/+bug/1312199
>
> Use no_timer_check with soft-qemu
> https://review.opendev.org/c/openstack/nova/+/96090
>
> Most (all?) of our CI currently running with [libvirt]virt_type=qemu
> uses the full Cirros 0.5.2 image. Does anyone have any suggestions on
> the best way of modifying the image(s) we use in CI to use the
> no_timer_check kernel command line arg?
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> --
> Lee Yarwood                 A5D1 9385 88CB 7E5F BE64  6618 BCA6 6E33 F672
> 2D76
>


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