ipmitool PXE bug

[Nickuru]

I have a clean metal3-dev-env installation on baremetal. The installation was successfully completed.

When I applied provision_cluster and then provision_controlplane i got endless "Provisioning" state in "kubectl get baremetalhosts".

"openstack baremetal node list" showed a Clean Failed error (HTTP 400). That's why I decided to go watch Ironic logs. Ironic logs give me this:

2020-06-18 18:19:31.140 48 ERROR ironic.drivers.modules.ipmitool [req-132349a1-8a40-45a3-a81d-bc1b07ba1419 - - - - -] IPMI           Error while attempting "ipmitool -I lanplus -H 192.168.111.1 -L ADMINISTRATOR -p 6231 -U admin -R 1 -N 1 -f /tmp/tmpl5c2z          1m2 chassis bootdev pxe" for node 46de4129-2a16-422d-bf5f-99914907a170. Error: Unexpected error while running command.
Command: ipmitool -I lanplus -H 192.168.111.1 -L ADMINISTRATOR -p 6231 -U admin -R 1 -N 1 -f /tmp/tmpl5c2z1m2 chassis boot          dev pxe
Exit code: 1
Stdout: ''
Stderr: 'Error setting Chassis Boot Parameter 5\n': oslo_concurrency.processutils.ProcessExecutionError: Unexpected error           while running command.

And when I tried to apply this command manually i got the same error. The reason for this error is "-R 1" argument. If i change it to "-R 2", everything will be fine. But, how can i change it inside the code?

Thanks.

[maelk]

I think this is Ironic's IPMI driver that would need to be modified. Ironic git repo is on Opendev https://opendev.org/openstack/ironic

[udayruddarraju]

Experiencing the same issue on master

[Nickuru]

Fix it by "use_ipmitool_retries = true" in /etc/ironic/ironic.conf
Actualy, there is a huge number of values in this file that you need to change in order for the metal3-dev-env installation to start correctly.

[maelk]

This might need to be modified in the github.com/metal3-io/ironic-image. Re-opening and transferring the issue to discuss it there

[maelk]

This has now been fixed. Please re-open if you still see the issue.

/close

[metal3-io-bot]

@maelk: Closing this issue.

In response to this:

This has now been fixed. Please re-open if you still see the issue.

/close

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