Sippy shows that baremetal blocking job on 4.13 started failing on Oct 19th and hasn't recovered. The two prevailing causes of failure are lease aquisition and metalkube returning an Internal Server Error.

https://sippy.dptools.openshift.org/sippy-ng/jobs/4.13/analysis?filters=%7B%22items%22%3A%5B%7B%22columnField%22%3A%22name%22%2C%22operatorValue%22%3A%22equals%22%2C%22value%22%3A%22periodic-ci-openshift-release-master-nightly-4.13-e2e-metal-ipi-sdn-bm%22%7D%5D%7D

 

Lease acquisition is known and straight forward, here's an example of the ISE.

https://prow.ci.openshift.org/view/gs/origin-ci-test/logs/periodic-ci-openshift-release-master-nightly-4.13-e2e-metal-ipi-sdn-bm/1716554939418808320

 

```
info: Mirroring completed in 0s (0B/s)
645
E1023 21:33:03.494942 66 memcache.go:238] couldn't get current server API group list: Get "https://api.ostest.test.metalkube.org:6443/api?timeout=32s": Internal Server Error
646
E1023 21:33:03.558487 66 memcache.go:238] couldn't get current server API group list: Get "https://api.ostest.test.metalkube.org:6443/api?timeout=32s": Internal Server Error
647
E1023 21:33:03.621854 66 memcache.go:238] couldn't get current server API group list: Get "https://api.ostest.test.metalkube.org:6443/api?timeout=32s": Internal Server Error
648
E1023 21:33:03.685509 66 memcache.go:238] couldn't get current server API group list: Get "https://api.ostest.test.metalkube.org:6443/api?timeout=32s": Internal Server Error
649
E1023 21:33:03.749401 66 memcache.go:238] couldn't get current server API group list: Get "https://api.ostest.test.metalkube.org:6443/api?timeout=32s": Internal Server Error
650
Unable to connect to the server: Internal Server Error
651
failed to ack the 4.9 Kube v1beta1 removals; possibly API-server issue, or a pre-4.8 release image
652
E1023 21:33:03.864235 84 memcache.go:238] couldn't get current server API group list: Get "https://api.ostest.test.metalkube.org:6443/api?timeout=32s": Internal Server Error
653
E1023 21:33:03.927752 84 memcache.go:238] couldn't get current server API group list: Get "https://api.ostest.test.metalkube.org:6443/api?timeout=32s": Internal Server Error
654
E1023 21:33:03.991368 84 memcache.go:238] couldn't get current server API group list: Get "https://api.ostest.test.metalkube.org:6443/api?timeout=32s": Internal Server Error
655
E1023 21:33:04.054933 84 memcache.go:238] couldn't get current server API group list: Get "https://api.ostest.test.metalkube.org:6443/api?timeout=32s": Internal Server Error
656
Unable to connect to the server: Internal Server Error
657

{"component":"entrypoint","error":"wrapped process failed: exit status 1","file":"k8s.io/test-infra/prow/entrypoint/run.go:84","func":"k8s.io/test-infra/prow/entrypoint.Options.internalRun","level":"error","msg":"Error executing test process","severity":"error","time":"2023-10-23T21:33:04Z"}

658
error: failed to execute wrapped command: exit status 1
659
INFO[2023-10-23T21:33:04Z] Step e2e-metal-ipi-sdn-bm-baremetalds-e2e-test failed after 1m53s.
660
INFO[2023-10-23T21:33:04Z] Step phase test failed after 1m53s.
```