raft/rafttest: TestPause failed

[cockroach-teamcity]

raft/rafttest.TestPause failed on release-24.3 @ 4cbedefd790c75cb0f21f77ed8d917c8528a7d15:

raft2024/10/19 04:19:49 INFO: 3 received MsgVoteResp from 2 at term 2
raft2024/10/19 04:19:49 INFO: 3 has received 3 MsgVoteResp votes and 2 vote rejections
raft2024/10/19 04:19:49 INFO: 3 became leader at term 2
raft2024/10/19 04:19:49 INFO: 3 [logterm: 2, index: 6, vote: 3] ignored MsgVote from 4 [logterm: 1, index: 5] at term 2: supporting fortified leader 3 at epoch 1
raft2024/10/19 04:19:49 INFO: 2 [term: 2] received a MsgVote message with higher term from 4 [term: 3]
raft2024/10/19 04:19:49 INFO: 2 became follower at term 3
raft2024/10/19 04:19:49 INFO: 2 [logterm: 1, index: 5, vote: 0] cast MsgVote for 4 [logterm: 1, index: 5] at term 3
raft2024/10/19 04:19:49 INFO: 1 [term: 2] received a MsgVote message with higher term from 4 [term: 3]
raft2024/10/19 04:19:49 INFO: 1 became follower at term 3
raft2024/10/19 04:19:49 INFO: 1 [logterm: 1, index: 5, vote: 0] cast MsgVote for 4 [logterm: 1, index: 5] at term 3
raft2024/10/19 04:19:49 INFO: 1 [term: 3] ignored a MsgFortifyLeader message with lower term from 3 [term: 2]
raft2024/10/19 04:19:49 INFO: 2 [term: 3] ignored a MsgFortifyLeader message with lower term from 3 [term: 2]
raft2024/10/19 04:19:49 INFO: 1 [term: 3] ignored a MsgFortifyLeader message with lower term from 3 [term: 2]
raft2024/10/19 04:19:49 INFO: 4 received MsgVoteResp from 5 at term 3
raft2024/10/19 04:19:49 INFO: 4 has received 2 MsgVoteResp votes and 0 vote rejections
raft2024/10/19 04:19:49 INFO: 4 received MsgVoteResp from 1 at term 3
raft2024/10/19 04:19:49 INFO: 4 has received 3 MsgVoteResp votes and 0 vote rejections
raft2024/10/19 04:19:49 INFO: 4 became leader at term 3
raft2024/10/19 04:19:49 INFO: 4 [term: 3] ignored a MsgFortifyLeader message with lower term from 3 [term: 2]
raft2024/10/19 04:19:49 INFO: 5 [term: 3] ignored a MsgApp message with lower term from 3 [term: 2]
raft2024/10/19 04:19:49 INFO: 5 [term: 3] ignored a MsgApp message with lower term from 3 [term: 2]
raft2024/10/19 04:19:49 INFO: 1 [term: 3] ignored a MsgApp message with lower term from 3 [term: 2]
raft2024/10/19 04:19:49 INFO: 4 [term: 3] ignored a MsgApp message with lower term from 3 [term: 2]
raft2024/10/19 04:19:49 INFO: 1 [term: 3] ignored a MsgFortifyLeader message with lower term from 3 [term: 2]
raft2024/10/19 04:19:49 INFO: 3 [term: 2] received a MsgFortifyLeader message with higher term from 4 [term: 3]
raft2024/10/19 04:19:49 INFO: 3 became follower at term 3
raft2024/10/19 04:19:49 INFO: 2 [term: 3] ignored a MsgFortifyLeader message with lower term from 3 [term: 2]
raft2024/10/19 04:19:49 INFO: 5 [term: 3] ignored a MsgFortifyLeader message with lower term from 3 [term: 2]
raft2024/10/19 04:19:49 INFO: 2 [term: 3] ignored a MsgApp message with lower term from 3 [term: 2]
raft2024/10/19 04:19:49 INFO: 2 [term: 3] ignored a MsgApp message with lower term from 3 [term: 2]
raft2024/10/19 04:19:49 INFO: 4 [term: 3] ignored a MsgFortifyLeader message with lower term from 3 [term: 2]
raft2024/10/19 04:19:49 INFO: 5 [term: 3] ignored a MsgFortifyLeader message with lower term from 3 [term: 2]
raft2024/10/19 04:19:49 INFO: 4 [term: 3] ignored a MsgApp message with lower term from 3 [term: 2]
raft2024/10/19 04:19:49 INFO: 2 [term: 3] ignored a MsgFortifyLeader message with lower term from 3 [term: 2]
raft2024/10/19 04:19:49 INFO: 4 [term: 3] ignored a MsgApp message with lower term from 3 [term: 2]
raft2024/10/19 04:19:49 INFO: 2 [term: 3] ignored a MsgApp message with lower term from 3 [term: 2]
raft2024/10/19 04:19:49 INFO: 1 [term: 3] ignored a MsgApp message with lower term from 3 [term: 2]
raft2024/10/19 04:19:49 INFO: 5 [term: 3] ignored a MsgApp message with lower term from 3 [term: 2]
raft2024/10/19 04:19:49 INFO: found conflict at index 6 [existing term: 2, conflicting term: 3]
raft2024/10/19 04:19:49 INFO: replace the unstable entries from index 6
raft2024/10/19 04:19:49 INFO: 5 [term: 3] ignored a MsgFortifyLeader message with lower term from 3 [term: 2]
raft2024/10/19 04:19:49 INFO: 4 [term: 3] ignored a MsgFortifyLeader message with lower term from 3 [term: 2]
raft2024/10/19 04:19:49 INFO: 1 [term: 3] ignored a MsgApp message with lower term from 3 [term: 2]
    node_test.go:126: commits failed to converge!
I241019 04:19:54.853300 347 (gostd) node.go:162  [-] 13  raft.1: stop
I241019 04:19:54.853411 349 (gostd) node.go:162  [-] 14  raft.2: stop
I241019 04:19:54.853481 351 (gostd) node.go:162  [-] 15  raft.3: stop
I241019 04:19:54.853522 353 (gostd) node.go:162  [-] 16  raft.4: stop
I241019 04:19:54.853565 355 (gostd) node.go:162  [-] 17  raft.5: stop
--- FAIL: TestPause (5.38s)

Parameters:

• attempt=1
• run=25
• shard=1

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Same failure on other branches

• raft/rafttest: TestPause failed #132205 raft/rafttest: TestPause failed [C-bug C-test-failure O-robot P-1 T-kv branch-master]

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Jira issue: CRDB-43390

[miraradeva]

Duplicate of #132205.

This test expects a stable leader, and we see from the logs that the loader changed:

raft2024/10/19 04:19:49 INFO: 3 became leader at term 2
...
raft2024/10/19 04:19:49 INFO: 4 became leader at term 3

It's similar in flavor to #121745 (comment), which is fixed. There might be a slightly different reason for the leadership change here, but it's most likely another variant of the waitLeader flakeyness described in etcd-io/raft#195.

Assigning P3 and removing the release blocker label, similar to #121745.

[iskettaneh]

+1 to what @miraradeva said. The test basically proposes many entries to different nodes, and assumes that there was a stable leader, so therefore all entries that were proposed got committed, which is not true if there are leadership changes.

Some suggestions to make the test more stable:

1. Follow-up on rafttest: reduce waitLeader flakiness etcd-io/raft#195 where we consider a leader in the test to be stable if it has the highest term in the cluster. This should work for tests that don't have partitions, and should reduce the chances of unstable leader.

2. Increase the electionTimeout: Right now, the nodes in the tests call elections if they don't hear from a leader for [10,20)ms. This is a short duration where multiple nodes could end up calling for elections at the same time. Maybe we can increase it to [100,200)ms?

[iskettaneh]

I am able to reproduce the failure by running:

./dev test pkg/raft/rafttest -f TestPause --stress --count=10000 --deadlock