Debian: collectd.log reports Unhandled python exception every 5 minutes

[Kirti Singh]

UnboundLocalError due to uid referenced before assignment.
As a result, the top 10 memory rss processes were not reflected in collectd log file

For example storage-0 collectd.log

2022-11-09T16:50:59.222 storage-0 collectd[34324]: info Unhandled python exception in read callback: UnboundLocalError: local variable 'uid' referenced before assignment
2022-11-09T16:50:59.222 storage-0 collectd[34324]: info Traceback (most recent call last):
2022-11-09T16:50:59.223 storage-0 collectd[34324]: info File "/opt/collectd/extensions/python/memory.py", line 753, in read_func
2022-11-09T16:50:59.223 storage-0 collectd[34324]: info pids = get_platform_memory_per_process()
2022-11-09T16:50:59.223 storage-0 collectd[34324]: info File "/opt/collectd/extensions/python/memory.py", line 585, in get_platform_memory_per_process
2022-11-09T16:50:59.223 storage-0 collectd[34324]: info platform.items(), k8s_system.items(), pod_group[uid].items()))
2022-11-09T16:50:59.223 storage-0 collectd[34324]: info UnboundLocalError: local variable 'uid' referenced before assignment
2022-11-09T16:50:59.223 storage-0 collectd[34324]: info read-function of plugin `python.memory' failed. Will suspend it for 60.000 seconds.

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[Ghada Khalil (gkhalil)]

This LP is opened against the wrong project. It should be under the starlingx project: https://bugs.launchpad.net/starlingx/

[Ghada Khalil (gkhalil)]

Fixed By: https://review.opendev.org/c/starlingx/monitoring/+/867128