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Aleksei Sviridkin 07c67a8913 test(e2e): capture previous container logs and stop killing the snapshot
Root-causing a crash-loop failure was blocked twice over by the
diagnostics collected on failure.

`kubectl logs` shows only the current container instance, so for a
crash-looping pod the suites' `podLogs` collector captured the Nth
restart -- a fresh replay of the same startup path -- while the
evidence that explained the failure sat in the first, interrupted
instance. Chainsaw's podLogs collector has no `previous` option, so
add e2e-capture-previous-logs.sh and drive it from the global catch
and from the BATS failure hook. It discovers containers with
restartCount > 0 at runtime (init containers included, where an
interrupted bootstrap lives), orders the app suites' namespace first,
and dumps each to the job log and the snapshot tree. Containers that
never restarted are skipped, so a healthy run emits one line rather
than a page of "previous terminated container not found".

Every way that capture can come up short is named rather than
inferred, because kubectl exits 1 for a garbage-collected container,
an RBAC denial and an unreachable node alike: the container cap, a
pod list that never returned (which is not the same as nothing having
restarted), a read that timed out versus one kubectl refused and the
reason it gave, and a previous instance that produced no output. A
partial capture is kept and marked truncated rather than deleted --
it is the only copy of a log already gone from the cluster.

The crust-gather snapshot was killed by the Chainsaw op containing it.
A script op is bounded by timeouts.exec (5m), and the catch's own
wall-clock wrappers summed to 960s, so the script was SIGKILLed
partway through -- taking out the process group mid-write and skipping
the data-plane capture entirely. Give each catch op an explicit
timeout above the budgets it contains, so an inner timeout fires
instead and leaves a partial, still-servable snapshot behind. The
data-plane leg drops from 600s to 300s at that call site so both legs
fit one envelope; the BATS hook keeps the wider budget, having no
containing op.

Set crust-gather --duration explicitly as well. It is the collection
phase's own budget, it defaults to 60s, and on elapse it abandons the
collection and skips its finish step, leaving a truncated tree with no
indication anything is missing. The outer wall-clock has to exceed it
because the API discovery that runs first is not covered by that
budget at all -- with an unhealthy aggregated APIService, the state a
failed run is usually in, discovery alone can consume the whole
timeout before a single object is written. Send each collector's
output to a log beside its snapshot instead of /dev/null, with a
complete/truncated/failed verdict, so that question is answerable
from the artifact.

Assisted-By: Claude <noreply@anthropic.com>
Signed-off-by: Aleksei Sviridkin <f@lex.la>
2026-07-21 18:37:07 +03:00
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