There is no terminal running on serial port after provisioning

[Andrey Danin]

Reproduced on 7.0

When provisioning is done and a node is rebooted there is no way to log into the node via serial port. It may be crucial when a server has IPMI SerialOnLAN only and the server has failed to get IP settings for some reason. It's hard to debug such environments.

Workaround: I didn't test it but it should be straightforward. Run getty on /dev/ttyS0 like in [1]

[1] https://help.ubuntu.com/community/SerialConsoleHowto

[Aleksey Zvyagintsev (azvyagintsev)]

Did you try change\check UI options https://github.com/openstack/fuel-web/blob/master/nailgun/nailgun/fixtures/openstack.yaml#L1195 ?

[Andrey Danin (gcon-monolake)]

Aleksey, what UI changes do you talking about?

[Dmitry Pyzhov (dpyzhov)]

This is a feature request. Removing from the Mitaka release because we don't backport patches of this kind.

[Maksim Malchuk (mmalchuk)]

Fix proposed to branch: master
Review: https://review.openstack.org/319914

[OpenStack Infra (hudson-openstack)]

Reviewed: https://review.openstack.org/319914
Committed: https://git.openstack.org/cgit/openstack/fuel-agent/commit/?id=39fe69492c50b10912cb131f6a4e2b5aa3caeaec
Submitter: Jenkins
Branch: master

commit 39fe69492c50b10912cb131f6a4e2b5aa3caeaec
Author: Maksim Malchuk <email address hidden>
Date: Mon May 23 15:49:11 2016 +0300

    Run console on the serial port if required

    This commit adds the ability to use IPMI SOL console when the nodes
    provisioned with an option 'console=ttySx' or 'console=ttySx,speed',
    where x is 0 for the COM1 and 1 for COM2. If speed parameter doesn't
    provided so 9600 used as default. This feature can be used for the
    bootstrap nodes too.

    DocImpact
    Closes-Bug: #1544820
    Change-Id: I210001c5692281add2439843f4ad69d65c8f6e17
    Signed-off-by: Maksim Malchuk <email address hidden>

[Alexander Gordeev (a-gordeev)]

Perhaps, this fix should be targeted to 9.1 too.

[Maksim Malchuk (mmalchuk)]

Changed to the New status on request.

[OpenStack Infra (hudson-openstack)]

Fix proposed to branch: stable/mitaka
Review: https://review.openstack.org/350296

[OpenStack Infra (hudson-openstack)]

Reviewed: https://review.openstack.org/350296
Committed: https://git.openstack.org/cgit/openstack/fuel-agent/commit/?id=34f6f9f3ee7ccbd826a48e0a3ac61994ce7466fc
Submitter: Jenkins
Branch: stable/mitaka

commit 34f6f9f3ee7ccbd826a48e0a3ac61994ce7466fc
Author: Maksim Malchuk <email address hidden>
Date: Mon May 23 15:49:11 2016 +0300

    Run console on the serial port if required

    This commit adds the ability to use IPMI SOL console when the nodes
    provisioned with an option 'console=ttySx' or 'console=ttySx,speed',
    where x is 0 for the COM1 and 1 for COM2. If speed parameter doesn't
    provided so 9600 used as default. This feature can be used for the
    bootstrap nodes too.

    DocImpact
    Closes-Bug: #1544820
    Change-Id: I210001c5692281add2439843f4ad69d65c8f6e17
    Signed-off-by: Maksim Malchuk <email address hidden>
    (cherry picked from commit 39fe69492c50b10912cb131f6a4e2b5aa3caeaec)

[Alexey. Kalashnikov (akalashnikov)]

Verified on 9.1 snapshot #237

root@node-5:~# cat /boot/grub/grub.cfg | grep console
        linux /vmlinuz-3.13.0-93-generic root=/dev/mapper/os-root ro console=ttyS0 net.ifnames=0 biosdevname=0 rootdelay=90 nomodeset root=UUID=64e98980-ab2e-44b4-a062-92a37ee4ed15 nomdmonddf nomdmonisw
                linux /vmlinuz-3.13.0-93-generic root=/dev/mapper/os-root ro console=ttyS0 net.ifnames=0 biosdevname=0 rootdelay=90 nomodeset root=UUID=64e98980-ab2e-44b4-a062-92a37ee4ed15 nomdmonddf nomdmonisw
                linux /vmlinuz-3.13.0-93-generic root=/dev/mapper/os-root ro recovery nomodeset console=ttyS0 net.ifnames=0 biosdevname=0 rootdelay=90 nomodeset root=UUID=64e98980-ab2e-44b4-a062-92a37ee4ed15

root@node-5:~# ll /dev/ttyS0
crw-rw---- 1 root dialout 4, 64 Sep 14 08:48 /dev/ttyS0
root@node-5:~# screendump /dev/ttyS0

Ubuntu 14.04.5 LTS node-5.test.domain.local tty1

node-5 login: