charm hides an error

[Marian Gasparovic]

When charm fails during retrofit action it does not show anything in juju, charm is active/idle and status message does not indicate any error.
An example would be when it hits this error for example - https://bugs.launchpad.net/charm-octavia-diskimage-retrofit/+bug/1975491

Amphora image is not created but operator has no clue it failed.

[Alex Kavanagh (ajkavanagh)]

Hi Marian

Please could you add the ubuntu-track that this was on: e.g. jammy-yoga or focal-yoga or something else?

Thanks!

[Marian Gasparovic (marosg)]

It was jammy-yoga

[Frode Nordahl (fnordahl)]

I'm a bit curious about this, the process of creating a new image is initiated by the operator running an action. The result of which is provided either synchronously by passing `--wait` to the juju `run-action` command, or asynchronously through the `show-action-output` and `show-action-status` commands.

AFAIK, the charm does not perform this process in any hook execution, and I don't think it would be appropriate to globally set the charms status based on the outcome of a random action execution. Or am I missing something?