Node in a non-bootable state fails to PXE boot

Bug #1317973 reported by Raphaël Badin
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Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
MAAS
Fix Released
Medium
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Bug Description

pserv.log contains this stacktrace: http://paste.ubuntu.com/7422186/.

A node in a non-bootable state (not 'Declared' nor 'Ready') got powered up. I see two problems here:
a) how could a MAAS node end up in such a state? It's easy to create this problem by powering up a node manually when a node is in a non-bootble state but that's not what happened here.
b) the failure mode for this is really bad. The code at the bottom of src/maasserver/api.py:get_boot_purpose is crack. It returns a boot purpose that looks like it's valid but is not.

Tags: power
Raphaël Badin (rvb)
summary: - Node in a non-bootable fails to PXE boot
+ Node in a non-bootable state fails to PXE boot
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Julian Edwards (julian-edwards) wrote :

I don't believe there is anything MAAS can do here other than issue a power down job and bail out on the boot attempt. If people are manually powering up machines it's totally out of our control.

Changed in maas:
importance: Critical → High
importance: High → Medium
Revision history for this message
Julian Edwards (julian-edwards) wrote :

I think this is a dupe as well but I can't find the other.

tags: added: power
Changed in maas:
status: Triaged → Fix Released
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