Description of problem: Since Beaker 23.0 the watchdog time after the reboot command at the start of the installation is always set to a hardcoded value of 50. In previous releases it was actually the TestTime for the first task in the recipe plus 20 minutes. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): 23.0 How reproducible: somewhat Steps to Reproduce: 1. Submit a job where the first task in the recipe is not /distribution/install, but some other task which has a very long TestTime 2. Check the watchdog timer immediately after the system is rebooted at the start of the installation Actual results: Watchdog timer always starts at 50 minutes. Expected results: Prior to Beaker 23.0, watchdog timer would be TestTime of the first task plus 20 minutes. Additional info: Longer term the initial watchdog *should* be some smaller value not based on the first task time, because it really reflects how long it takes the machine to netboot and nothing to do with the tasks. For that, there is bug 1138486. But the change has to be done deliberately in a way that won't break existing recipes.
As a workaround you could invoke bkr watchdog-extend to extend the watchdog back to the desired value, once the recipe has reached Installing status. For identifying the recipe bkr watchdog-extend will accept R:123, T:123, or fqdn. The only tricky part is that it requires proper authentication (like all client commands) so it can't just be invoked with no authentication inside a kickstart.
http://gerrit.beaker-project.org/5133
Beaker 23.2 has been released.