When tripleo_container_manage starts containers it uses PodmanManage. PodmanManage checks if container is running and stops it before running container start. This would work fine on clean deploy but tripleo uses systemd services for containers. Sometimes systemd reacts facter than PodmanManage and during update or upgrade starts back container before the new one is spawned. This results in ansible failure. There is higher chance of this happening on bigger environments and those are also costly to rerun.
Failing QA scale up or scale down operations would end with outage on control plane and might even affect dataplane: [stack@undercloud-0 ~]$ grep "WARNING | Stopped" overcloud_scale_up.log 2024-10-11 11:38:03.403122 | | WARNING | Stopped service tripleo_memcached 2024-10-11 11:38:03.480668 | | WARNING | Stopped service tripleo_memcached 2024-10-11 11:42:13.481965 | | WARNING | Stopped service tripleo_clustercheck 2024-10-11 11:42:13.804133 | | WARNING | Stopped service tripleo_clustercheck 2024-10-11 11:43:08.230257 | | WARNING | Stopped service tripleo_nova_virtlogd_wrapper 2024-10-11 11:43:08.231361 | | WARNING | Stopped service tripleo_ovn_controller 2024-10-11 11:43:08.231820 | | WARNING | Stopped service tripleo_nova_libvirt 2024-10-11 11:43:08.232339 | | WARNING | Stopped service tripleo_iscsid 2024-10-11 11:43:28.320755 | | WARNING | Stopped service tripleo_horizon 2024-10-11 11:43:28.321806 | | WARNING | Stopped service tripleo_ovn_controller 2024-10-11 11:43:28.322489 | | WARNING | Stopped service tripleo_iscsid 2024-10-11 11:43:28.323190 | | WARNING | Stopped service tripleo_keystone 2024-10-11 11:43:28.323881 | | WARNING | Stopped service tripleo_keystone_cron 2024-10-11 11:43:29.400431 | | WARNING | Stopped service tripleo_horizon 2024-10-11 11:43:29.401397 | | WARNING | Stopped service tripleo_ovn_controller 2024-10-11 11:43:29.401897 | | WARNING | Stopped service tripleo_iscsid 2024-10-11 11:43:29.402458 | | WARNING | Stopped service tripleo_keystone 2024-10-11 11:43:29.402859 | | WARNING | Stopped service tripleo_keystone_cron 2024-10-11 11:44:31.207074 | | WARNING | Stopped service tripleo_nova_virtlogd_wrapper 2024-10-11 11:44:31.208801 | | WARNING | Stopped service tripleo_ovn_controller 2024-10-11 11:44:31.210098 | | WARNING | Stopped service tripleo_nova_virtsecretd 2024-10-11 11:44:31.211791 | | WARNING | Stopped service tripleo_iscsid 2024-10-11 11:44:31.212445 | | WARNING | Stopped service tripleo_nova_virtnodedevd 2024-10-11 11:44:31.214456 | | WARNING | Stopped service tripleo_nova_virtstoraged 2024-10-11 11:44:31.215044 | | WARNING | Stopped service tripleo_nova_virtqemud 2024-10-11 11:44:31.216242 | | WARNING | Stopped service tripleo_nova_virtproxyd 2024-10-11 11:47:32.366667 | | WARNING | Stopped service tripleo_ovn_cluster_north_db_server 2024-10-11 11:47:32.502762 | | WARNING | Stopped service tripleo_ovn_cluster_north_db_server 2024-10-11 11:47:42.792046 | | WARNING | Stopped service tripleo_ovn_cluster_south_db_server 2024-10-11 11:47:43.048683 | | WARNING | Stopped service tripleo_ovn_cluster_south_db_server 2024-10-11 11:47:53.803595 | | WARNING | Stopped service tripleo_ovn_cluster_northd 2024-10-11 11:47:54.293897 | | WARNING | Stopped service tripleo_ovn_cluster_northd 2024-10-11 11:48:01.040551 | | WARNING | Stopped service tripleo_logrotate_crond 2024-10-11 11:48:02.578835 | | WARNING | Stopped service tripleo_logrotate_crond 2024-10-11 11:48:03.119513 | | WARNING | Stopped service tripleo_logrotate_crond 2024-10-11 11:48:10.502090 | | WARNING | Stopped service tripleo_logrotate_crond 2024-10-11 11:48:10.509531 | | WARNING | Stopped service tripleo_nova_migration_target 2024-10-11 11:48:10.510536 | | WARNING | Stopped service tripleo_ovn_metadata_agent 2024-10-11 11:48:10.513469 | | WARNING | Stopped service tripleo_logrotate_crond 2024-10-11 11:48:10.514130 | | WARNING | Stopped service tripleo_nova_migration_target 2024-10-11 11:48:10.514617 | | WARNING | Stopped service tripleo_ovn_metadata_agent 2024-10-11 11:49:57.094538 | | WARNING | Stopped service tripleo_cinder_api_cron 2024-10-11 11:49:57.096113 | | WARNING | Stopped service tripleo_heat_api_cron 2024-10-11 11:49:57.096584 | | WARNING | Stopped service tripleo_heat_api_cfn 2024-10-11 11:49:57.097023 | | WARNING | Stopped service tripleo_cinder_api 2024-10-11 11:49:57.097491 | | WARNING | Stopped service tripleo_heat_api 2024-10-11 11:49:57.097948 | | WARNING | Stopped service tripleo_logrotate_crond 2024-10-11 11:49:57.098440 | | WARNING | Stopped service tripleo_nova_conductor 2024-10-11 11:49:57.098883 | | WARNING | Stopped service tripleo_nova_vnc_proxy 2024-10-11 11:49:57.099343 | | WARNING | Stopped service tripleo_neutron_api 2024-10-11 11:49:57.099759 | | WARNING | Stopped service tripleo_cinder_scheduler 2024-10-11 11:49:57.100218 | | WARNING | Stopped service tripleo_nova_scheduler 2024-10-11 11:49:57.100696 | | WARNING | Stopped service tripleo_heat_engine 2024-10-11 11:49:57.101146 | | WARNING | Stopped service tripleo_placement_api 2024-10-11 11:49:57.101579 | | WARNING | Stopped service tripleo_glance_api_cron 2024-10-11 11:49:57.102029 | | WARNING | Stopped service tripleo_glance_api 2024-10-11 11:49:57.102562 | | WARNING | Stopped service tripleo_glance_api_internal 2024-10-11 11:49:57.102995 | | WARNING | Stopped service tripleo_nova_metadata 2024-10-11 11:49:57.103482 | | WARNING | Stopped service tripleo_nova_api 2024-10-11 11:49:57.103901 | | WARNING | Stopped service tripleo_nova_api_cron 2024-10-11 11:49:57.207366 | | WARNING | Stopped service tripleo_cinder_api_cron 2024-10-11 11:49:57.209149 | | WARNING | Stopped service tripleo_heat_api_cron 2024-10-11 11:49:57.209671 | | WARNING | Stopped service tripleo_heat_api 2024-10-11 11:49:57.210124 | | WARNING | Stopped service tripleo_cinder_api 2024-10-11 11:49:57.210565 | | WARNING | Stopped service tripleo_heat_api_cfn 2024-10-11 11:49:57.210982 | | WARNING | Stopped service tripleo_logrotate_crond 2024-10-11 11:49:57.211432 | | WARNING | Stopped service tripleo_nova_conductor 2024-10-11 11:49:57.211844 | | WARNING | Stopped service tripleo_neutron_api 2024-10-11 11:49:57.212284 | | WARNING | Stopped service tripleo_cinder_scheduler 2024-10-11 11:49:57.212698 | | WARNING | Stopped service tripleo_nova_vnc_proxy 2024-10-11 11:49:57.213136 | | WARNING | Stopped service tripleo_nova_scheduler 2024-10-11 11:49:57.213564 | | WARNING | Stopped service tripleo_heat_engine 2024-10-11 11:49:57.213980 | | WARNING | Stopped service tripleo_placement_api 2024-10-11 11:49:57.214465 | | WARNING | Stopped service tripleo_glance_api_cron 2024-10-11 11:49:57.214879 | | WARNING | Stopped service tripleo_glance_api 2024-10-11 11:49:57.215351 | | WARNING | Stopped service tripleo_glance_api_internal 2024-10-11 11:49:57.215787 | | WARNING | Stopped service tripleo_nova_api 2024-10-11 11:49:57.216244 | | WARNING | Stopped service tripleo_nova_metadata 2024-10-11 11:49:57.216728 | | WARNING | Stopped service tripleo_nova_api_cron 2024-10-11 11:52:16.252390 | | WARNING | Stopped service tripleo_nova_compute 2024-10-11 11:52:16.871009 | | WARNING | Stopped service tripleo_nova_compute
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 (RHOSP 17.1.4 bug fix and enhancement advisory), 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/RHBA-2024:9974
*** Bug 2316429 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***