bifrost-deploy: dnsmasq not giving boot file name

[Stefan Pinter]

**Bug Report**
hi! I try to build a multinode Openstack test environment with Kayobe. This is about the following: "Discovery of the overcloud is supported by the ironic inspector service running in the bifrost_deploy container on the seed. The service is configured to PXE boot unrecognised MAC addresses with an IPA ramdisk for introspection."

So my "to be provisioned/introspected" host is sending a DHCP DISCOVER and dnsmasq from inside the bifrost-deploy container is responding with a DHCPOFFER that does not contain a reference to a boot file. The container has some images in it though.

The pxe client tells me "no boot file name received"

what can I do? why are there only 3 issues on launchpad? are there some archived issues somewhere?

thank you very much for your time!

Kayobe Version: 2023.1

[Maksim Malchuk (mmalchuk)]

Looks like an error in configuration. Please provide more information.

[Stefan Pinter (nidrix-glandda)]

i'd be very happy to provide my config. do you need the whole kayobe config? would it make sense that i push my whole config into a repo and link it here?

any hints on what variables i have to look at?

sadly the documentation of kayobe did not give me any hint.

[Maksim Malchuk (mmalchuk)]

a link to the repo with configuration would be great, especially if it is a clone of the kayobe-config repo.

[Stefan Pinter (nidrix-glandda)]

hello again! i pushed it there. it is a new repo though

https://github.com/stefanpinterBE/kayobe-config

[Michał Skibicki (grucha)]

I've got this issue too. I can see that @mmalchuk repo is not available anymore so I posted my config on github https://github.com/skbki/kayobe-config-debug

I've run tcpdump while bare metal machine was booting.
https://pastebin.com/4EzT39Zg

Looks like dnsmasq in bifrost-deploy container isn't configured to serve any dhcp boot file.

[Daniel Martinez (entaltoaragon)]

Hi,

Looks like dnsmasq.conf is not generated fine

Manually generating dnsmasq.conf following the template from: https://opendev.org/openstack/bifrost/src/branch/stable/2023.1/playbooks/roles/bifrost-ironic-install/templates/dnsmasq.conf.j2 seems to work

Cheers!

[Maksim Malchuk (mmalchuk)]

Hi,

please provide the log of the 'seed service deploy' command with -vvvv option generated, configuration files from the $KOLLA_CONFIG_PATH and /etc/kolla/bifrost

[Will Szumski (willjs)]

My colleague Matt Anson spotted this: https://review.opendev.org/c/openstack/bifrost/+/902233. We have proposed a cherry-pick to 2023.1. That config section was made conditional in: https://github.com/openstack/bifrost/commit/8d273d13147bcdffdfa3e803ff46e15b18662b0b. This broke discovery.

[Will Szumski (willjs)]

Workaround is may be to set `dhcp_provider: none` in $KAYOBE_CONFIG_PATH/kolla/config/bifrost/bifrost.yml

[Will Szumski (willjs)]

This should now be in the latest kolla images. Let us know if you are still seeing this issue after trying the new images.