[sos39][networking] dpdk port flapping observed during sosreport execution

[XENIAL][PRE-SRU TESTING]

An impacted user did 'pre-SRU' testing. Here's what has been brought to my attention:

"
Thanks for the test package.
We tested it, and as per expectation, it is not executing ethtool -e and in turn not causing dpdk port flap.
Please let us know when can we have the official fix.
"

- Eric

Hello Eric, or anyone else affected,

Accepted sosreport into xenial-proposed. The package will build now and be available at https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/sosreport/3.9.1-1ubuntu0.16.04.2 in a few hours, and then in the -proposed repository.

Please help us by testing this new package. See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed for documentation on how to enable and use -proposed. Your feedback will aid us getting this update out to other Ubuntu users.

If this package fixes the bug for you, please add a comment to this bug, mentioning the version of the package you tested, what testing has been performed on the package and change the tag from verification-needed-xenial to verification-done-xenial. If it does not fix the bug for you, please add a comment stating that, and change the tag to verification-failed-xenial. In either case, without details of your testing we will not be able to proceed.

Further information regarding the verification process can be found at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/QATeam/PerformingSRUVerification . Thank you in advance for helping!

N.B. The updated package will be released to -updates after the bug(s) fixed by this package have been verified and the package has been in -proposed for a minimum of 7 days.

All autopkgtests for the newly accepted sosreport (3.9.1-1ubuntu0.16.04.2) for xenial have finished running.
The following regressions have been reported in tests triggered by the package:

sosreport/3.9.1-1ubuntu0.16.04.2 (armhf)

Please visit the excuses page listed below and investigate the failures, proceeding afterwards as per the StableReleaseUpdates policy regarding autopkgtest regressions [1].

https://people.canonical.com/~ubuntu-archive/proposed-migration/xenial/update_excuses.html#sosreport

[1] https://wiki.ubuntu.com/StableReleaseUpdates#Autopkgtest_Regressions

Thank you!

[XENIAL VERIFICATION]

I have tested the proposed package (3.9.1-1ubuntu0.16.04.2) and I confirm that 'ethtool -e' is now executed only when the eepromdump networking's plugin option is turn on as explained in the [TEST PLAN].

- Eric

This bug was fixed in the package sosreport - 3.9.1-1ubuntu0.16.04.2

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sosreport (3.9.1-1ubuntu0.16.04.2) xenial; urgency=medium

  * d/p/0005-networking-collect-ethtool-e-device-conditionally-only.patch:
    - EEPROM dump collection might hang on specific types of devices, or
      negatively impact the system otherwise. As a safe option, sos report
      should collect the command when explicitly asked via a plugopt only.
      (LP: #1925351)

 -- Eric Desrochers <email address hidden> Wed, 21 Apr 2021 09:07:20 -0400

The verification of the Stable Release Update for sosreport has completed successfully and the package is now being released to -updates. Subsequently, the Ubuntu Stable Release Updates Team is being unsubscribed and will not receive messages about this bug report. In the event that you encounter a regression using the package from -updates please report a new bug using ubuntu-bug and tag the bug report regression-update so we can easily find any regressions.