test(bastion): cover the rescue boot path and record what it exposed
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`provision debug` is the lab's recovery tool of last resort and had no integration coverage on any architecture. Adding it -- x86_64 on KVM so it runs in ~15 minutes, plus the aarch64 equivalent -- showed the rescue environment coming up correctly but nothing ever listening on port 22. Reproduced on both architectures, so it is neither ARM-specific nor an emulation artefact, and it is orthogonal to the multi-arch work: x86_64 is unchanged by that. Documented in ARCHITECTURE.md with the leads worth checking, rather than left as a silent gap. Also restructures the ARM rescue suite to seed the machine into state instead of discovering it first. That mirrors the DGX Spark situation -- SSH-onboarded, never PXE-discovered, architecture known only from its record -- and holds the test to one emulated boot, since each spends ~15 of its ~18 minutes fetching Anaconda's stage2 under TCG. KEEP_VM=1 leaves the VM up on failure; half-hour emulated runs are too expensive to pay twice just to see what happened. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_015nRFZXpKwUVE4SRSHw6GjF
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### Anaconda Rescue Mode Limitations
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`%pre` and `%post` sections do not execute in `inst.rescue` mode. SSH in rescue mode is provided by Anaconda's `inst.sshd` kernel parameter + `sshpw` kickstart directive. Manual setup via `curl bastion:8080/debug-setup.sh | bash` for nc listener.
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**Unresolved (2026-08-11): rescue SSH has never been observed working.** Adding the first
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integration coverage for `provision debug` (`tests/integration/pxe-rescue.test.ts`) showed the
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rescue environment coming up correctly — the bastion serves the kernel and initrd, Anaconda
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boots, fetches `debug.ks`, and reaches its installer environment — but **nothing ever listens on
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port 22**. Confirmed on aarch64 by probing the port for 30 minutes while the Anaconda environment
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was demonstrably running (NetworkManager, polkitd, rsyslog all up), and reproduced on x86_64 with
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KVM, so it is not architecture-specific and not an emulation artefact.
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This is orthogonal to the multi-architecture work: the same failure occurs on x86_64, which that
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work does not touch. Leads worth checking, in order:
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- Does `inst.sshd` actually start `sshd` in `inst.rescue` mode, or only in install mode? The
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port never opens, so this is the prime suspect — an auth problem would still show an open port.
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- `sshkey` may apply only to the *installed* system, leaving the installer environment
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password-only via `sshpw`. That would matter once sshd does listen: the test authenticates
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key-only (`BatchMode=yes`).
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- The `%anaconda`-context directives in `debug.ks` may be skipped entirely when a kickstart is
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supplied alongside `inst.rescue`.
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Until this is resolved, `provision debug` gets you a booted rescue environment on the console
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(including on arm64), but not an SSH shell. The `debug-setup.sh` nc-listener path is the
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documented workaround and is unaffected.
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