[Question] kpt cli fails intermittently

[Cbkhare]

My kpt/Porch system fails intermittently or gives no output. Wanted to check what could be possible reasons for that.

$ kpt alpha repo get -A
NAME             TYPE   CONTENT   DEPLOYMENT   READY   ADDRESS
test-catalogue   git    Package   false        True    https://github.com/******/************************.git

$ kpt alpha rpkg get

• no output in the above case. After some time below was the state.

$ kpt alpha rpkg get -A
Error: Unable to list "porch.kpt.dev/v1alpha1, Resource=packagerevisions": the server could not find the requested resource (get packagerevisions.porch.kpt.dev)
$ kpt alpha rpkg get -A
Error: Unable to list "porch.kpt.dev/v1alpha1, Resource=packagerevisions": the server could not find the requested resource (get packagerevisions.porch.kpt.dev)

log of the proch-controller

E0427 13:55:57.223156       1 reflector.go:140] pkg/mod/k8s.io/client-go@v0.25.3/tools/cache/reflector.go:169: Failed to watch *v1alpha1.PackageRevision: failed to list *v1alpha1.PackageRevision: the server is currently unable to handle the request (get packagerevisions.porch.kpt.dev)
W0427 13:56:36.596070       1 reflector.go:424] pkg/mod/k8s.io/client-go@v0.25.3/tools/cache/reflector.go:169: failed to list *v1alpha1.PackageRevision: the server is currently unable to handle the request (get packagerevisions.porch.kpt.dev)
E0427 13:56:36.596800       1 reflector.go:140] pkg/mod/k8s.io/client-go@v0.25.3/tools/cache/reflector.go:169: Failed to watch *v1alpha1.PackageRevision: failed to list *v1alpha1.PackageRevision: the server is currently unable to handle the request (get packagerevisions.porch.kpt.dev)

system details:

$ uname -a
Linux cbk-VirtualBox 5.15.0-71-generic #78~20.04.1-Ubuntu SMP Wed Apr 19 11:26:48 UTC 2023 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

$ kind get clusters
management

Virtualbox details

• 10 GB RAM
• 6 core processor.

Workaround I am following is to redeploy the porch.

[johnbelamaric]

Can you get the logs from the porch-server Pod?

[mortent]

Yeah, the error here suggest that there is a problem with the Porch server. If you can provide the logs or any errors you might see in the logs, that would make it easier to understand what is going on.

[Cbkhare]

thanks for the suggestion @mortent / @johnbelamaric . I recreated the proch-system and since then I have not hit the issue. I will update the details with porch-server logs when I encounter the issue again.