leader maintains leadership when in error state

[Stuart Bishop]

If the lead unit goes into an error state, it still maintains its leadership lease.

This will paralyze some charms. Other units will run their hooks as needed, but no decisions can be made by the leader unless the error is resolved or the jujud on the leader shut down.

[Christian Muirhead (2-xtian)]

Do you mean that the uniter currently keeps renewing the lease, and it should let it lapse so that a different unit can pick it up once it expires?
Or that the lease should expire immediately if the leader unit goes into error?

[Christian Muirhead (2-xtian)]

Reading the second paragraph more carefully it sounds like you mean the former, is that right?

[Stuart Bishop (stub)]

The uniter keeps renewing the lease, and the unit remains leader despite being in an error state.

For this case, I don't think it matters if the lease is lost immediately after going into an error state, or if it expires at the end of the current lease period. It is perfectly acceptable for there to be no-leader at all until the lease expires and another unit picks it up.

Bug #1532085 is a similar issue (a departing unit remains leader), and its needs might drive how this bug is approached. In that bug's case, leadership needs to be lost before before the peer relation-departed and other teardown hooks are kicked off.

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