Failed 50-maas-01-commissioning on a Power9 PowerVM LPAR

[Patricia Domingues]

the commissioning script `50-maas-01-commissioning` is failing:
```
ERROR: Failed to retrieve CPU information: Failed to read "/sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/topology/physical_package_id": strconv.ParseUint: parsing "-1": invalid syntax
```
On a Power9 LPAR.

Deb-based MAAS:
MAAS version: 2.9.2 (9164-g.ac176b5c4-0ubuntu1~20.04.1)

[Patricia Domingues (patriciasd)]

All other scripts have worked with `PASSED` except `50-maas-01-commissioning` and the skipped one `30-maas-01-bmc-config`.

Marking as a regression as POWER8 PowerVM LPAR were commissioned in the past (not sure with which MAAS version) and although I see there wasn't the current failed script `50-maas-01-commissioning` back then.

[Alexsander de Souza (alexsander-souza)]

Hi, could you please test this with MAAS 3.1? (2.9 is no longer maintained by maas team)

also, can you copy /usr/share/maas/machine-resources/ppc64el from the maas server to this machine and run it? You can do this enabling "Allow SSH access and prevent machine powering off" in the Commissioning form. This option tells MAAS to copy SSH keys to the ephemeral OS and to keep the machine on after the commissioning tests, so you can connect to it and run additional actions.

[Patricia Domingues (patriciasd)]

Hi.
trying to run that script on the LPAR gives me the same output from the commissioning script:
```
ubuntu@P9garro-LPAR2:~$ ./ppc64el
ERROR: Failed to retrieve CPU information: Failed to read "/sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/topology/physical_package_id": strconv.ParseUint: parsing "-1": invalid syntax
```

as
`ubuntu@P9garro-LPAR2:~$ cat /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/topology/physical_package_id`
-1

[Alexsander de Souza (alexsander-souza)]

Thanks Patricia,

we rely on a LXD go module to get the machine information, so I need to put them in the loop to get this fixed.

[Alexsander de Souza (alexsander-souza)]

Patricia,

please show us the output of the following commands:

$ uname -a

$ lscpu

$ cat /proc/cpuinfo

[Patricia Domingues (patriciasd)]

ok. I was commissioning the LPAR with Focal.
Attaching the outputs.

[Patricia Domingues (patriciasd)]

same script failing when trying to add a new POWER8 LPAR `ERROR: Failed to retrieve CPU information: Failed to read "/sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/topology/physical_package_id": strconv.ParseUint: parsing "-1": invalid syntax`

[Alberto Donato (ack)]

This should be fixed in MAAS on 1e898d49e due to updated LXD code.