System with FCoE connected devices fails to boot randomly due to wicked ordering cycle problems

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 15 SP2
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP2

Booting a system with Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) connected devices result in random boot failures. Analyzing the journalctl -xb output, the wicked service reports messages similar to:
 

Aug 24 13:43:27 sles15sp2 systemd[1]: wickedd.service: Job wickedd.service/start deleted to break ordering cycle starting with network.target/start
Aug 24 13:43:27 sles15sp2 systemd[1]: network.target: Found dependency on wickedd-dhcp6.service/start
Aug 24 13:43:27 sles15sp2 systemd[1]: network.target: Breaking ordering cycle by deleting job wickedd-dhcp6.service/start
Aug 24 13:43:27 sles15sp2 systemd[1]: wickedd-dhcp6.service: Job wickedd-dhcp6.service/start deleted to break ordering cycle starting with network.target/start
Aug 24 13:43:27 sles15sp2 systemd[1]: Starting wicked network nanny service...
Aug 24 13:43:27 sles15sp2 wickedd-nanny[1513]: /org/opensuse/Network/Interface.getManagedObjects failed. Server responds:
Aug 24 13:43:27 sles15sp2 wickedd-nanny[1513]: org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.ServiceUnknown: The name org.opensuse.Network was not provided by any .service files
Aug 24 13:43:27 sles15sp2 wickedd-nanny[1513]: Couldn't refresh list of active network interfaces
Aug 24 13:43:27 sles15sp2 systemd[1]: Starting wicked DHCPv4 supplicant service...
Aug 24 13:43:27 sles15sp2 systemd[1]: Starting wicked AutoIPv4 supplicant service...
Aug 24 13:43:27 sles15sp2 systemd[1]: Started wicked network nanny service.
Aug 24 13:43:27 sles15sp2 systemd[1]: Started wicked DHCPv4 supplicant service.
Aug 24 13:43:27 sles15sp2 systemd[1]: Started wicked AutoIPv4 supplicant service.


Checking /etc/fstab a configuration with several mount points and /var on a separate volume is observed, the mount points are configured to use the _netdev option like:

/dev/evg00/root                            /                  xfs   defaults      0  0
/dev/evg00/var                             /var               xfs   _netdev       0  0
/dev/evg00/var.tmp                         /var/tmp           xfs   nodev,nosuid  0  0
/dev/evg00/var.log                         /var/log           xfs   _netdev       0  0
/dev/evg00/var.crash                       /var/crash         xfs   _netdev       0  0
/dev/evg00/usr                             /usr               xfs   _netdev       0  0
/dev/evg00/tmp                             /tmp               xfs   nodev,nosuid  0  0
/dev/evg00/opt                             /opt               xfs   _netdev       0  0
/dev/evg00/swap                            swap               swap  _netdev       0  0

To address this issue, please apply the fix SUSE-SLE-Module-Basesystem-15-SP2-2021-698. To have the fix available during installation, the Installer Self-Update repository needs to be enabled as patches required for the installation environment. For further details, please see:

https://documentation.suse.com/sles/15-SP2/html/SLES-all/cha-install.html#sec-yast-install-self-update