[None][fix] Keep sysinfo distro probe working without the distro module; fail empty test-list renders loudly

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Root cause of the 2026-08-19 main-wide empty-test-list failures

openai 3.3.1 (uploaded 2026-08-19 16:31 UTC) dropped its distro dependency. TRT-LLM never declared distro directly — it only ever arrived transitively via openai in requirements.txt — so test containers whose pip install -r requirements-dev.txt resolved openai 3.3.1 stopped getting it.

get_sysinfo.py swallowed the resulting ImportError in a bare except: and reported linux_distribution_name='na'. Every pre-merge block in l0_a100.yml/l0_h100.yml/etc. is conditioned on linux_distribution_name: ubuntu*, so trt-test-db rendered an empty test list, pytest --collect-only exited 5, and the stage failed as an unattributable "user failure":

renderTestDB: stage=A100X-PyTorch-1 context=l0_a100 test-db=source ... -> 0 tests
No tests found, created empty cleaned testDBList: .../l0_a100_cleaned.txt
no tests collected (4329 deselected)
Test collection failed for shard 1/1. Cannot proceed without valid test list.

Only sysinfo-rendered stages (K8s single-GPU: A100X/A10/A30/H100_PCIe/RTXPro6000D, all backends) are affected; SLURM stages build their match query without sysinfo (no linux_distribution_name key at all) and are immune — which matches the observed breakage pattern exactly.

Evidence (job LLM/main/L0_Test-x86_64-Single-GPU):

• Run 1116 (pip at 20:12 UTC, Artifactory index cache still on openai 3.3.0): distro-1.9.0 installed, render matched linux_distribution_name=ubuntu, 23 tests.
• Run 1118 (21:46 UTC, got openai 3.3.1): no distro in the install log, render matched "linux_distribution_name":"na", 0 tests.
• Reproduced locally: run 1118's exact trt-test-db --match JSON against the unmodified source test-db yields 0 tests; the same query with linux_distribution_name=ubuntu22.04 yields 23.

This is unrelated to CBTS (#16776) — the merge timing was coincidental. The mirror's index cache TTL explains why failures appeared gradually across stages/PRs rather than at a single instant.

Fix (three layers)

1. get_sysinfo.py — when the distro module is missing, fall back to platform.freedesktop_os_release() (stdlib, Python 3.10+, reads the same /etc/os-release; returns identical ('ubuntu', '24.04', 'noble') values). ('na','na','na') is now reserved for hosts with no os-release at all, and that case logs an error spelling out the empty-render consequence. Also narrows the bare except:.
2. requirements-dev.txt — declare distro explicitly so the probe never depends on a third-party package's transitive dependency set again.
3. jenkins/L0_Test.groovy (renderTestDB) —
   • warn whenever any sysinfo probe returned "na", even when the rendered list is non-empty (conditioned blocks silently drop out — a partially-missing list is otherwise invisible);
   • error() immediately when the rendered list is empty, including the match query in the message. An empty render is never legitimate for a launched stage (CBTS drops fully-narrowed stages before launch via _build_narrowing), and failing at render time replaces the confusing downstream pytest --collect-only exit-5 failure. Failing rather than skipping is deliberate: skip-on-empty would have turned this incident into a silent zero-tests-run green across CI.

Verification

• get_linux_distribution() unit-exercised with distro present and with a meta-path blocker simulating its absence: both return ('ubuntu', '24.04', 'noble').
• python3 -m py_compile on get_sysinfo.py; pre-commit clean on all three files.
• trt-test-db==1.8.5+bc6df7 render of l0_a100 with restored linux_distribution_name values confirmed to select the expected pre-merge tests.

Dev Engineer Review

• Added platform.freedesktop_os_release() as a fallback when the distro module is unavailable or fails.
• Added distro==1.9.0 to development requirements.
• Added logging when OS-release data is unavailable.
• Added warnings for the "na" sysinfo sentinel.
• Improved renderTestDB match-query logging and empty test-list diagnostics.
• Made renderTestDB fail immediately when it produces no tests.
• Preserved errors from unreadable test-list files.
• Removed additional nvidia-cutlass-dsl package variants before LLMAPI sanity installation.
• No test-list files changed.
• No correctness, configuration, or formatting issues identified.

QA Engineer Review

• Modified test support code in tests/integration/defs/sysinfo/get_sysinfo.py.
• No test functions were added, modified, or removed.
• No corresponding test-db/ or qa/ entries were added.
• Verdict: needs follow-up. The distribution-detection fallback and empty-render failure paths require explicit test coverage.

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The change adds Linux distribution detection fallback logic, declares distro for development, and improves renderTestDB diagnostics for unavailable sysinfo values and empty rendered test lists.

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Layer / File(s)	Summary
Sysinfo distribution detection tests/integration/defs/sysinfo/get_sysinfo.py, requirements-dev.txt	The sysinfo helper records probe failures, falls back to platform.freedesktop_os_release(), and adds pinned distro development requirements.
Test database rendering validation jenkins/L0_Test.groovy	renderTestDB logs Mako matches, warns about "na" sysinfo values, preserves file-read failures, rejects empty renders, and removes additional Cutlass DSL package variants.

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The change restores distro detection and makes empty CI test selections fail immediately; the only remaining item is a minor copyright-header update that creates no actionable merge-blocking risk.

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sequenceDiagram
  participant get_sysinfo.py
  participant distro
  participant platform.freedesktop_os_release
  get_sysinfo.py->>distro: query distribution metadata
  distro-->>get_sysinfo.py: return metadata or probe error
  get_sysinfo.py->>platform.freedesktop_os_release: query fallback metadata
  platform.freedesktop_os_release-->>get_sysinfo.py: return metadata or read error

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115-132: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Add focused tests for the fallback paths.

Cover missing distro, a failed distro probe, successful os-release parsing, and missing os-release data. Use mocked unit tests so these cases do not require GPU access or model weights.

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In `@tests/integration/defs/sysinfo/get_sysinfo.py` around lines 115 - 132, Add
focused mocked unit tests for the sysinfo distribution-detection function
covering missing distro, failed distro probing, successful
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In `@tests/integration/defs/sysinfo/get_sysinfo.py`:
- Around line 127-132: Update the Linux distribution fallback handling in the
surrounding distribution-detection function so the OSError log describes either
an unavailable distro module or a failed probe, rather than claiming the module
is missing. Replace the broad except Exception handler with only the specific
expected exceptions from the probe, and add focused coverage for a failed probe
when /etc/os-release is absent without changing test-list entries.

Apply the same fix in `@tests/integration/defs/sysinfo/get_sysinfo.py` around
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distribution-detection function covering missing distro, failed distro probing,
successful platform.freedesktop_os_release parsing, and unavailable os-release
data, without requiring GPU access or model weights. Include the required
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Add focused unit coverage for get_linux_distribution().

Cover missing distro, a failed probe, successful platform.freedesktop_os_release(), and the OSError fallback returning ("na", "na", "na"). No test functions or test-list entries changed. Coverage verdict: insufficient. These tests do not require GPU access, model weights, or LLM_MODELS_ROOT.

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In `@tests/integration/defs/sysinfo/get_sysinfo.py` around lines 115 - 136, Add
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probe exception, successful platform.freedesktop_os_release(), and an OSError
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