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On Mon, 7 Mar 2022 at 09:51, Mark Goddard <mark at stackhpc.com> wrote:
>
> On Sun, 6 Mar 2022 at 08:51, Radosław Piliszek
> <radoslaw.piliszek at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Dear fellow upstream OpenStackers,
> >
> > I tagged the main projects that use vbmc intensively because I have a
> > question regarding the stability of vbmc.
> > I have been working on adding baremetal testing in Kolla Ansible using
> > Tenks and thus also VirtualBMC.
> > I am encountering random failures that I am at the moment unable to debug.
> > It seems vbmc likes to reject the "chassis bootdev pxe" ipmitool
> > command from time to time (the command is issued when trying to deploy
> > a host).
> > This seems permanent per case as ironic retries this call several
> > times only to fail.
> > The error message is "Error setting Chassis Boot Parameter 5".
> > I can't see any trace in vbmc logs (with DEBUG enabled).
> > Other ipmitool commands seem to work fine (like periodic power status).
> > I was wondering if any of you also experienced this issue.
> > I am providing a link to an excerpt from the logs. [1]
> > It also shows a raw ipmitool command succeeding only to let the next one fail.
> >
> > [1] https://paste.ubuntu.com/p/MgHHpDvVGf/
>
> Radek,
>
> Try this on for size:
> https://review.opendev.org/c/openstack/kayobe-config-dev/+/829006

Thanks, Mark! Trying it out now in [2].

[2] https://review.opendev.org/c/openstack/kolla-ansible/+/832204

-yoctozepto