tried to cancel action ... but failed with error state changing too quickly

[Jake Hill]

juju 2.8.10. A freshly installed model.

juju run --machine=5 times out without completing. Seems different to 1914619 but perhaps a hangover from that fix?

/var/log/juju/machine-5.log contains;

2021-04-29 13:05:44 INFO juju.worker.machineactions worker.go:85 tried to cancel action action-94 but failed with error state changing too quickly; try again soon
2021-04-29 13:05:44 ERROR juju.worker.dependency engine.go:671 "machine-action-runner" manifold worker returned unexpected error: could not retrieve action 94: action no longer available
2021-04-29 13:07:45 INFO juju.worker.machineactions worker.go:85 tried to cancel action action-94 but failed with error state changing too quickly; try again soon
2021-04-29 13:07:45 ERROR juju.worker.dependency engine.go:671 "machine-action-runner" manifold worker returned unexpected error: could not retrieve action 94: action no longer available
2021-04-29 13:09:35 INFO juju.worker.machineactions worker.go:85 tried to cancel action action-94 but failed with error state changing too quickly; try again soon
2021-04-29 13:09:35 ERROR juju.worker.dependency engine.go:671 "machine-action-runner" manifold worker returned unexpected error: could not retrieve action 94: action no longer available
2021-04-29 13:11:35 INFO juju.worker.machineactions worker.go:85 tried to cancel action action-94 but failed with error state changing too quickly; try again soon
2021-04-29 13:11:35 ERROR juju.worker.dependency engine.go:671 "machine-action-runner" manifold worker returned unexpected error: could not retrieve action 94: action no longer available
2021-04-29 13:13:35 INFO juju.worker.machineactions worker.go:85 tried to cancel action action-94 but failed with error state changing too quickly; try again soon
2021-04-29 13:13:35 ERROR juju.worker.dependency engine.go:671 "machine-action-runner" manifold worker returned unexpected error: could not retrieve action 94: action no longer available

[Heather Lanigan (hmlanigan)]

I am unable to reproduce this currently.

What charm is installed on machine 5 and what action is being run? Does this happen with a specific machine or any machine?

[John A Meinel (jameinel)]

So the line 2021-04-29 13:11:35 INFO juju.worker.machineactions
worker.go:85 tried to cancel action action-94 but failed with error state
changing too quickly; try again soon

Is probably happening because of a bad pre-check before running the
assertion. It looks like the object is actually gone, and thus it is trying
to apply a change to an object but not checking the object exists.
At least that is how I read it if we are also seeing
2021-04-29 13:09:35 ERROR juju.worker.dependency engine.go:671
"machine-action-runner" manifold worker returned unexpected error: could
not retrieve action 94: action no longer available

On Thu, Apr 29, 2021 at 5:00 PM Heather Lanigan <email address hidden>
wrote:

> I am unable to reproduce this currently.
>
> What charm is installed on machine 5 and what action is being run? Does
> this happen with a specific machine or any machine?
>
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