testflinger cli takes a while to show any info and is noisy... #930
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Testflinger takes a while to actually show any info when polling a new job, and also there's still a lot of "waiting on output" noise:
bladernr@rocinante:~/development/checkflinger$ /usr/bin/time -f %E testflinger poll 47cdf627-89e5-4fab-992a-f237570d6d56 | tee -a /home/jeffrey.lane@canonical.com/testflinger-console-logs/meitner/meitner-xenial-Reservation-2026-02-23_1650.log
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This job is waiting on a node to become available.
This job will be picked up after the current job and 1 job(s) ahead of it in the queue are complete
This job will be picked up after the current job is complete (it is next in line)
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* Starting testflinger setup phase on meitner *
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Cleaning up container if it exists...
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* Starting testflinger provision phase on meitner *
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2026-02-23 22:34:16,596 meitner INFO: DEVICE CONNECTOR: Running pre-provision hook
2026-02-23 22:34:16,596 meitner INFO: DEVICE CONNECTOR: MAAS: Reading node's block device information
2026-02-23 22:34:18,694 meitner INFO: DEVICE CONNECTOR: BEGIN provision
2026-02-23 22:34:18,694 meitner INFO: DEVICE CONNECTOR: Provisioning device
2026-02-23 22:34:18,694 meitner INFO: DEVICE CONNECTOR: MAAS: Fixing EFI boot order before provisioning
Waiting on output...
2026-02-23 22:36:18,836 meitner INFO: DEVICE CONNECTOR: MAAS: Fixing EFI boot order before provisioning
I know there's some work to quiet down the "waiting on output" spam, I wonder if the timeout here shouldn't be pushed backa bit, it seems to be triggered < 2 minutes elapsed since last message. Maybe it should be pushed back a bit to ... some other arbitrary timeout?
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