[utah-devel] Utah fail/backout on Late command failure

[Christopher Lee]

Hi All,

I have a suggestion/request regarding utah provisioning.

Would it be possible to have an argument (or perhaps default behaviour 
and the
arg smothers it) where Utah stops provisioning/installing if it encounters:
  > "utah: Late command failure detected"

A couple of times we've had jobs just sit idle for hours when a step in 
the late
command failed causing the script that sets up the system for the tests 
to not
be run (so the monitoring script just sat there checking for something 
that will
never occur.).

I've recently added a hack to our preseed and test script where the last 
thing
the preseed does is touch a 'flag' file and the first the test script 
does is
check for it's existence or exits.
IMO it would be a good thing for Utah to handle automatically (i.e. if a 
step in
provisioning the machine fails, stop and exit).


Regards,
Chris