5-6-2-VSAN-Complex nightly fail: govc datastore.vsan.dom.ls panic: nil pointer dereference

[AngieCris]

nightly 12/16/17 test group 5-6-2-VSAN-Complex

After VCH cleanup, running govc datastore.vsan.dom.ls -ds "vsanDatastore" -l -o 2>&1 gives invalid memory address or nil pointer dereference:

Where the panic happens according to the stack trace:
/~https://github.com/vmware/govmomi/blob/master/object/datastore.go#L410

Log:
5-6-2-VSAN-Complex.zip

@dougm

[AngieCris]

PR: vmware/govmomi#969

[dougm]

Note that the govc change does not fix the problem here, it just changes the panic to an error, the test would have still failed. Normally the task info would never be nil (the possible panic had been there for years), so something unexpected happened with the network or hostd for example.

[anchal-agrawal]

Needs a priority - putting in Not Ready.

[hickeng]

Adding the vmomi-gateway tag to issues that can/should be caught and handled below the level of the core product code. I'm still hopefully that we actually split out that component for isolation and much more targeted testing. (yes, this was in govc but the same vSphere behaviour should be handled by the product also).

[mdubya66]

Same build has been used in every nightly since 2/23. Closing.