Change-queue job failures this weekend

[Barak Korren]

On 21 January 2018 at 12:50, Eyal Edri <eedri at redhat.com> wrote:

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> On Sun, Jan 21, 2018 at 12:47 PM, Barak Korren <bkorren at redhat.com> wrote:
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>> On 21 January 2018 at 12:39, Eyal Edri <eedri at redhat.com> wrote:
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>>> There is another issue, which is currently failing all CQ, and its
>>> related to the new IBRS CPU model.
>>> It looks like all of the lago slaves were upgraded to new Libvirt and
>>> kernel on Friday, while we still don't have a fix on lago-ost-plugin for
>>> that.
>>>
>>> I think there was a misunderstanding about what to upgrade, and it might
>>> have been understood that only the bios upgrade breaks it and not the
>>> kernel one.
>>>
>>> In any case, we're currently fixing the issue, either by downgrading the
>>> relevant pkgs on lago slaves or adding the mapping to new CPU types from
>>> OST.
>>>
>>> For future, I suggest a few updates to maintenance work on Jenkins
>>> slaves ( VMs or BM ):
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>>> 1. Let's avoid doing an upgrade close to a weekend ( i.e not on Thu-Sun
>>> ), so all the team can be around to help if needed or if something
>>> unexpected happens.
>>> 2. When we have a system-wide upgrade scheduled, like all BM slaves or
>>> VMs for a specific OS, let's adopt a gradual upgrade with a few days window
>>> in between,
>>>   e.g, if we need to upgrade all Lago slaves, let's upgrade 1-2 and wait
>>> to see if nothing breaks and continue after we verify OST runs ( either
>>> seeing on CQ or running manually )
>>>
>>>
>>> Thoughts?
>>>
>>>
>> We have a staging system - we should be using it for staging....
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> Do we have OST tests or manual job avaialble there?
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We can add them easily, or simply run Lago manually when needed.


> In any case, this doesn't contradict what I suggested, even if you test on
> staging, there could be differences from the production system, so we
> should take care when we upgrade regardless.
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Yes, but at least we'd know we green lighted the new configuration - I'm
sure in this case we could have found at least some of the issues on
staging (Like the fc27 issues for example) and could have avoided expansive
production failures.

Another point when scheduling an upgrade, is to talk to infra owner or the
> CI team and understand if we currently have a large Q in CQ or known
> failures, so it might be best to wait a bit until its cleared.
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-- 
Barak Korren
RHV DevOps team , RHCE, RHCi
Red Hat EMEA
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