[plugin][ovn-central] timeout on non-leader host

[Eric Desrochers]

[IMPACT]
When running the ovn_central plugin on a non-leader host the sbctl command hangs indefinitely until the sosreport timeout kicks in.

[TEST CASE]
* Run 'sos report -a' (AKA sosreport -a) which should exercise ovn-central, if the detection criteria are met. In this case if package 'ovn-central' is installed.

AND/OR

* Run 'sos report -o ovn_central' (AKA sosreport -o ovn_central) which will enable the ovn_central plugin only.

* The plugin will then timeout and logs will be as follows:

Setting up plugins ...
[plugin:ovn_central] Could not open DB schema file /usr/share/openvswitch/ovn-nb.ovsschema: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '/usr/share/openvswitch/ovn-nb.ovsschema'
[plugin:ovn_central] Could not open DB schema file /usr/share/openvswitch/ovn-sb.ovsschema: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '/usr/share/openvswitch/ovn-sb.ovsschema'
[plugin:ovn_central] added cmd output 'ovn-nbctl show'
[plugin:ovn_central] added cmd output 'ovn-sbctl show'
[plugin:ovn_central] added cmd output 'ovn-sbctl lflow-list'
[plugin:ovn_central] added cmd output 'ovn-nbctl get-ssl'
[plugin:ovn_central] added cmd output 'ovn-nbctl get-connection'
[plugin:ovn_central] added cmd output 'ovn-sbctl get-ssl'
[plugin:ovn_central] added cmd output 'ovn-sbctl get-connection'
[plugin:ovn_central] added cmd output 'ovn-nbctl list Load_Balancer'
[plugin:ovn_central] added cmd output 'ovn-nbctl list ACL'
[plugin:ovn_central] added cmd output 'ovn-nbctl list Logical_Switch_Port'
[plugin:ovn_central] added cmd output 'journalctl --no-pager --unit ovn-northd'
 Running plugins. Please wait ...

  Starting 1/1 ovn_central [Running: ovn_central]
[plugin:ovn_central] collecting path '/var/log/ovn/ovn-controller.log'
[plugin:ovn_central] collecting output of 'ovn-nbctl show'
[plugin:ovn_central] collecting output of 'ovn-sbctl show'

[WHERE PROBLEM COULD OCCUR]

If something arise after this change. It will only affect the data collection of the ovn-central plugin individually. It won't affect other plugins nor core functionalities.

Worse case scenario would be that user will have to collect ovn debugging data manually (outside a usual sosreport run) in order to provide it to a third-party support vendor.

[OTHER INFORMATION]

Upstream issue:
https://github.com/sosreport/sos/issues/2418

Upstream PR:
https://github.com/sosreport/sos/pull/2419

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package sosreport - 4.0-1ubuntu9

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sosreport (4.0-1ubuntu9) hirsute; urgency=medium

  [Edward Hope-Morley]
  * d/p/0019-ovn-fix-sbctl-cmd-execution.patch (LP: #1916635)

 -- Eric Desrochers <email address hidden> Wed, 24 Feb 2021 10:40:56 -0500

[Brian Murray (brian-murray)]

The Groovy Gorilla has reached end of life, so this bug will not be fixed for that release