[xenial-mitaka] Functional test gate is timing out with "RPC: Automatic reconnect failed"

[Aurelien Lourot]

Visible in these reviews:
https://review.opendev.org/c/openstack/charm-nova-cloud-controller/+/803180
https://review.opendev.org/c/openstack/charm-nova-cloud-controller/+/796953
https://review.opendev.org/c/openstack/charm-nova-cloud-controller/+/792752

I suspect this is hitting us now because new libjuju versions got published recently. [0] I'm wondering if pinning to 2.8 [1] would help?

[0] https://pypi.org/project/juju/2.9.2/#history
[1] https://github.com/openstack-charmers/zaza-openstack-tests/blob/master/requirements.txt#L8

[OpenStack Infra (hudson-openstack)]

Reviewed: https://review.opendev.org/c/openstack/charm-nova-cloud-controller/+/812612
Committed: https://opendev.org/openstack/charm-nova-cloud-controller/commit/fc33f99c5f563984b54339e3fe97495b56c6ff9b
Submitter: "Zuul (22348)"
Branch: master

commit fc33f99c5f563984b54339e3fe97495b56c6ff9b
Author: Rodrigo Barbieri <email address hidden>
Date: Tue Oct 5 17:47:40 2021 -0300

    Change xenial-mitaka CI job to non-voting

    Related-bug: #1938793
    Change-Id: If1413fe220f174d373c75a3de775187fa6757751

[Corey Bryant (corey.bryant)]

Considering this affects xenial-mitaka and the next release of the charms is dropping xenial support, I'm triaging this as won't fix.