FYI this sosreport test is run every time any redhat-certification test is executed and there is no way to disable this.  If a partner has a failed test, the sosreport helps our cert-ops engineers check their system for configuration issues.  It's a mandatory test.

Having this test take 25+ minutes every time we run any test is severely slowing down our testing of redhat-certification on RHEL 8.6 systems.  We also run nightly automation where 10+ tests are run, each one waiting 25+ minutes for sosreport to run thus tying up many beaker systems for a long time.

Can we please get this fix into RHEL 8.6 ASAP.  We run this sosreport test constantly on x86_64, ppc64le, s390x and aarch64 systems so we could act as OtherQE for this fix

Thanks for your consideration.  Doreen

Agreed with QE to contain the fix in 8.6 / in the next respin (week or two timeframe), under the condition of OtherQE.

I will clone it to RHEL9 as well now, to have 8.6 and 9.0 in par.

One missing (sanity check) fix identified, will respin.

We have run our sosreport test using sos 4.2-13.el8 on x86_64, aarch64, ppc64le and s390x with no issues.  We are no longer seeing the 25 minutes timeouts

Example on aarch64 system.  This took just over 2 minutes with no timeout error messages

 [root@ ~]# date
Tue Feb  8 07:00:29 EST 2022
[root@ ~]# sosreport
Please note the 'sosreport' command has been deprecated in favor of the new 'sos' command, E.G. 'sos report'.
Redirecting to 'sos report '

sosreport (version 4.2)

This command will collect diagnostic and configuration information from
this Red Hat Enterprise Linux system and installed applications.

An archive containing the collected information will be generated in
/var/tmp/sos.7r_imve0 and may be provided to a Red Hat support
representative.

Any information provided to Red Hat will be treated in accordance with
the published support policies at:

        Distribution Website : https://www.redhat.com/
        Commercial Support   : https://www.access.redhat.com/

The generated archive may contain data considered sensitive and its
content should be reviewed by the originating organization before being
passed to any third party.

No changes will be made to system configuration.

Press ENTER to continue, or CTRL-C to quit.

Optionally, please enter the case id that you are generating this report for []: 

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[plugin:wireless] skipped command 'iwlist scanning': required kmods missing: cfg80211.  
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Creating compressed archive...

Your sosreport has been generated and saved in:
	/var/tmp/sosreport-hp-moonshot-03-c27-2022-02-08-qhguezm.tar.xz

 Size	14.17MiB
 Owner	root
 sha256	524ffac90f45ee9117d001b8edad83a4f5273fedd5916874b7b8d74fe0b9e831

Please send this file to your support representative.

[root@ ~]# date
Tue Feb  8 07:02:38 EST 2022

Since the problem described in this bug report should be
resolved in a recent advisory, it has been closed with a
resolution of ERRATA.

For information on the advisory (sos bug fix and enhancement update), and where to find the updated
files, follow the link below.

If the solution does not work for you, open a new bug report.

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHEA-2022:1998