T6761: Add timeout for OSPF smoketest fail

From time to time the smoektest script checks frrconfig to early.
I.e. FRR does not fully load the config during checking or the OSPF
daemon is not started at the time of checking.

1 files changed, 17 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/smoketest/scripts/cli/test_protocols_ospf.py b/smoketest/scripts/cli/test_protocols_ospf.py
index 905eaf2e9..c3ae54e12 100755
--- a/smoketest/scripts/cli/test_protocols_ospf.py
+++ b/smoketest/scripts/cli/test_protocols_ospf.py
@@ -15,6 +15,7 @@
 # along with this program.  If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
 
 import unittest
+import time
 
 from base_vyostest_shim import VyOSUnitTestSHIM
 
@@ -558,6 +559,22 @@ class TestProtocolsOSPF(VyOSUnitTestSHIM.TestCase):
 
         # Verify FRR ospfd configuration
         frrconfig = self.getFRRconfig('router ospf', daemon=PROCESS_NAME)
+        # Required to prevent the race condition T6761
+        retry_count = 0
+        max_retries = 60
+
+        while not frrconfig and retry_count < max_retries:
+            # Log every 10 seconds
+            if retry_count % 10 == 0:
+                print(f"Attempt {retry_count}: FRR config is still empty. Retrying...")
+
+            retry_count += 1
+            time.sleep(1)
+            frrconfig = self.getFRRconfig('router ospf', daemon=PROCESS_NAME)
+
+        if not frrconfig:
+            print("Failed to retrieve FRR config after 60 seconds")
+
         self.assertIn(f'router ospf', frrconfig)
         self.assertIn(f' network {network} area {area1}', frrconfig)