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Included review availability: Your plan provides up to 8 included reviews per hour; 6 remain after this review. WalkthroughThe journal parsers validate boot and reboot output. They retain valid records and collect diagnostics for malformed or unrecognized lines. The pod prepares the host journal and displays boot timestamps in UTC. ChangesJournal processing
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In `@test/extended/machines/cluster.go`:
- Line 289: Update the journalctl invocation and parsing logic near the
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This does not fix the failure it cites (OCPBUGS-122213), and the stricter parser introduces new ways for the test to fail on healthy nodes. Details inline, summary here.
What actually happened in run 2096709871981301760
From the e2e build log, node ip-10-0-70-87 returned this and nothing else from the reboots container:
node/ip-10-0-70-87.ec2.internal reboot-requests Journal file /var/log/journal/ec25b7f30170b86d7338dd5ddeb1cf0c/system.journal is truncated, ignoring file.
The list-boots container on the same node, in the same pod, saw both boots with no warning:
-1 9952aa615ff3424f8bfab57a12b4020e Sun 2026-09-06 21:31:47 UTC Sun 2026-09-06 21:38:10 UTC
0 8574a278659643289f3bf174815a3720 Sun 2026-09-06 21:38:27 UTC Sun 2026-09-06 23:47:45 UTC
So the truncation was a transient race with journald writing the active system.journal, and journalctl skipped the whole file, dropping the System is rebooting. record for boot -1. The retry (a fresh cluster) passed because the race didn't occur there. The description's framing ("the previous parser could interpret diagnostic text as boot or reboot records") is not what happened. The old code failed with cannot parse "Journal" as "2006"; this PR fails the same input with no reboot records found; journal output contained only diagnostics:
origin/test/extended/machines/cluster.go
Lines 415 to 417 in 8b208ef
I verified this locally by feeding the exact log line above to parseRebootInstances at this SHA. And the new unit test explicitly encodes that behaviour:
origin/test/extended/machines/cluster_test.go
Lines 294 to 299 in 8b208ef
Even if the parser returned an empty list instead, the node timeline would be Boot, Boot with no RebootRequest, and the evaluation loop would still fail with "unexpected boot" / "expected reboot":
origin/test/extended/machines/cluster.go
Lines 156 to 181 in 8b208ef
The data is missing at the source, so no parser change can make this case pass. Upstream systemd hit this exact symptom in its own --list-boots test (a partially written active system.journal reported as truncated) and its documented mitigation is journalctl --flush and journalctl --sync before querying, see TEST-09-REBOOT.journal.sh L26-L38 and systemd/systemd#32890. So the fix belongs in how the data is collected: sync before the query and/or retry when stderr contains is truncated, ignoring file, or have the test treat a node with journal diagnostics and zero records as inconclusive and re-run the pod:
origin/test/extended/machines/display_reboots_pod.yaml
Lines 24 to 28 in 8b208ef
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The bug's description states the parser "treats the first token of that diagnostic output as a reboot timestamp, producing a false failure", and infers from the passing retry that the failure was "caused by the parser handling of intermittent diagnostic output rather than evidence of an unexpected node reboot". The build log does not support that inference: the retry was a fresh cluster on which the journal file was not truncated, not a demonstration that the parser behaved differently. On the failing run the reboot record was never returned by journalctl, so any parser, lenient or strict, ends up with a Boot, Boot timeline for that node. The bug's own "Expected behavior" line, "reject malformed or record-less output", is what L415-L417 implements, and it is exactly the branch that fails on the observed input. The bug is currently Priority Undefined with no severity set, and the assignee (Kevin Hannon) has already commented that the PR "seems quite complicated" and asked for context on why this fix was done. I'd suggest re-describing the bug as "reboot test loses reboot record when journalctl skips a truncated active journal file" before iterating on a fix.
For history: OCPBUGS-35880 (closed Cannot Reproduce) and its PRs #28884 / #28953 fixed pod exit behaviour (|| true on the -g query) and established the test's contract: every boot after the first must be preceded by a systemd-logind "System is rebooting." record. That contract is why a dropped record, not a malformed line, is the thing to fix.
Other concerns (inline below): the fail-closed allow-list will turn other real journalctl warnings into new hard failures; the stricter reboot-line shape fails the whole node on any message variant rather than skipping the line; the journalctl:-prefixed fixtures are not real journalctl output.
What looks good: --utc on --list-boots with the UTC-only layout resolves the timezone comment; the reboot-parse error now dumps containerRebootsLogs instead of the boot logs; logging diagnostics separately is useful. Package tests pass locally in UTC and America/New_York, go vet and gofmt are clean.
CI: none of the e2e jobs ran the test. The images build failed on a registry push infra error, so every e2e job is IncompleteTests. Needs a /retest once the approach is settled. I'd hold the release-5.0 backport until this addresses the actual failure.
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This is the line that fires on the observed CI input. A node whose journal emits any diagnostic and has no reboot request now fails the parse, even though "no reboot requests" is a legitimate answer for a node that never rebooted. That is inconsistent with parseBootInstances, which tolerates diagnostics as long as one boot row exists (L342-L344). If diagnostics mean the journal is untrustworthy, the answer is to retry collection, not to fail the node.
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Addressed on the current branch (9077c66, building on 050be55). Collection now runs a privileged prepare-journal init container with journalctl --flush, --sync, and --rotate before the readers start. The parser keeps strict validation for real records, but logs/skips non-record diagnostics and permits legitimate empty reboot output instead of turning diagnostic-only output into a parser failure.
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| return strings.HasPrefix(diagnostic, "Journal file ") && strings.HasSuffix(diagnostic, " is truncated, ignoring file.") |
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The allow-list covers a journalctl: prefix and exactly one message. journalctl doesn't prefix its own stderr with journalctl: (the journalctl[pid]: seen in some logs is the journal capturing a unit's stderr, not journalctl output). The sibling warnings from the same switch in systemd's journal-util.c will now hard-fail the parse instead of being logged:
https://github.com/systemd/systemd/blob/v252/src/shared/journal-util.c#L117-L133
Journal file %s uses an unsupported feature, ignoring file.followed by a second lineUse SYSTEMD_LOG_LEVEL=debug journalctl --file=%s to see the details.(two lines; neither matches)Journal file %s corrupted, ignoring file.An error was encountered while opening journal file or directory %s, ignoring file: ...- v257 adds
Too many journal files (limit is at %u) in scope, ignoring file '%s'.
Any of those on a healthy node is a new false gate failure. Suggest: treat any line that doesn't match the record shape as a diagnostic (log it), and only fail when zero boot rows are found.
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Addressed on the current branch. The diagnostic allow-list was removed: lines that do not match the strict valid-record shape are logged and skipped, while valid records remain strictly checked. The unit tests now use real journal diagnostic variants rather than an invented journalctl: prefix, including unsupported/corrupted-file messages.
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| if len(fields) != 6 { | ||
| return nil, diagnostics, fmt.Errorf("invalid reboot record on line %d: %q", i+1, line) | ||
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| if !isSystemdLogindTag(fields[2]) { | ||
| return nil, diagnostics, fmt.Errorf("invalid reboot source on line %d: %q", i+1, fields[2]) | ||
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| if strings.Join(fields[3:], " ") != "System is rebooting." { | ||
| return nil, diagnostics, fmt.Errorf("invalid reboot message on line %d: %q", i+1, strings.Join(fields[3:], " ")) | ||
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The pod already scopes these lines with -t systemd-logind -g rebooting. Requiring exactly six fields, a systemd-logind[<pid>]: tag and the literal System is rebooting. means any other logind message that matches the grep fails the whole node rather than skipping the line. systemd's action table has three that do: System is rebooting, System is rebooting with kexec, and System userspace is rebooting (soft-reboot):
https://github.com/systemd/systemd/blob/v257/src/login/logind-action.c#L45-L81
Prefer "skip and log" for non-matching lines.
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Addressed on the current branch. Non-matching systemd-logind action lines are now treated as diagnostics (logged/skipped), and the supported action variants no longer cause the whole parse to fail. The parser still strictly validates the record shape before recording a reboot request.
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| if len(fields) == 9 { | ||
| return nil, diagnostics, fmt.Errorf("invalid boot record on line %d: missing boot index: %q", i+1, line) | ||
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The len(fields) == 9 branch exists only to produce a different error string; the != 10 check on the next line already rejects it. Suggest dropping it.
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Addressed on the current branch: the redundant len(fields) == 9 branch was removed. The single strict field-count validation remains.
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| name: "journal diagnostics do not hide valid reboot requests", | ||
| args: args{rebootsOutput: `Journal file /var/log/journal/example/system.journal is truncated, ignoring file. | ||
| journalctl: warning: skipped unreadable journal data | ||
| journalctl: warning while filtering systemd-logind messages containing rebooting | ||
| 2024-03-01T12:00:00-0500 journalctl: warning: skipped rotated journal data | ||
| 2024-03-01T12:01:00-0500 journalctl: warning while filtering systemd-logind messages containing rebooting | ||
| 2024-03-13T10:20:01-0400 fedora systemd-logind[1404]: System is rebooting. | ||
| 2024-04-24T11:45:58-0400 fedora systemd-logind[1460]: System is rebooting. | ||
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| want: []bootTimelineEntry{ | ||
| {action: "RebootRequest", time: mustTime("2024-03-13T10:20:01-04:00")}, | ||
| {action: "RebootRequest", time: mustTime("2024-04-24T11:45:58-04:00")}, | ||
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| wantDiagnostics: []string{ | ||
| "Journal file /var/log/journal/example/system.journal is truncated, ignoring file.", | ||
| "journalctl: warning: skipped unreadable journal data", | ||
| "journalctl: warning while filtering systemd-logind messages containing rebooting", | ||
| "2024-03-01T12:00:00-0500 journalctl: warning: skipped rotated journal data", | ||
| "2024-03-01T12:01:00-0500 journalctl: warning while filtering systemd-logind messages containing rebooting", | ||
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These journalctl: warning: ... fixture lines (also L47 and L296) are not strings journalctl produces. They only pass because of the invented journalctl: prefix branch in isJournalDiagnostic. Please replace them with real messages, e.g. the "unsupported feature" and "corrupted" variants above, so the test covers what the cluster will actually emit.
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Addressed on the current branch. The invented journalctl: warning fixtures were replaced with real journal diagnostics, including the unsupported-feature and corrupted-file variants, so the tests exercise the messages the collection command can actually emit.
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(Anchored here because the reboots command below at L27 is unchanged in this diff.)
The reboots container command at L27 is where the fix should land. The truncation warning is systemd reading a partially written active journal file, and upstream systemd hit the identical symptom in its own --list-boots test and documented the mitigation: journalctl --flush and journalctl --sync before querying (their workaround for systemd/systemd#32890), optionally followed by --rotate so everything of interest is in archived files:
https://github.com/systemd/systemd/blob/main/test/units/TEST-09-REBOOT.journal.sh#L26-L38
A bounded retry when the output contains is truncated, ignoring file would also work. Optionally send stderr to a separate stream so diagnostics never interleave with records.
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Addressed on the current branch. The collection-side mitigation is implemented in a separate privileged prepare-journal init container that runs journalctl --flush, --sync, and --rotate before list-boots and reboots read the host journal. This keeps the synchronization step out of the parser and applies it before both readers.
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In `@test/extended/machines/display_reboots_pod.yaml`:
- Line 18: Update the prepare-journal container definition to include Kubernetes
CPU and memory limits, using the repository’s established resource-limit values
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- Around line 20-21: Harden the pod security configuration around the display
reboot containers by replacing privileged execution with a least-privileged
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Why this change is needed
The unexpected-reboots test can receive journal diagnostics interleaved with
journalctloutput. The previous parser could interpret diagnostic text as boot or reboot records, producing false gate failures; malformed record-shaped lines could also be discarded and leave an incomplete boot timeline.This was observed in the AWS 5.1 serial gate
periodic-ci-openshift-release-main-nightly-5.1-e2e-aws-ovn-serial-1of2on run2096709871981301760. The same payload passed on retry as run2096754740166660096.What changed
systemd-logindPID tag, and exact reboot message before recording a reboot request.Validation
go test ./pkg/...passed.go vet ./...passed.make openshift-testspassed.make verify-originpassed.git diff --check origin/main...HEADpassed.Tracking: OCPBUGS-122213
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