Etcd writing error in tests about missing confstate

[serathius]

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What happened?

Periodic failures in https://testgrid.k8s.io/sig-etcd-periodics#ci-etcd-e2e-amd64
TestNoErrorLogsDuringNormalOperations/three_node_cluster_with_auto_tls_(peers) is failing with:

Messages:   	error level log message found: {"level":"error","ts":"2024-11-16T20:58:00.500222Z","caller":"version/monitor.go:120","msg":"failed to update storage version","cluster-version":"3.6.0","error":"cannot detect storage schema version: missing confstate information","stacktrace":"go.etcd.io/etcd/server/v3/etcdserver/version.(*Monitor).UpdateStorageVersionIfNeeded\n\tgo.etcd.io/etcd/server/v3/etcdserver/version/monitor.go:120\ngo.etcd.io/etcd/server/v3/etcdserver.(*EtcdServer).monitorStorageVersion\n\tgo.etcd.io/etcd/server/v3/etcdserver/server.go:2286\ngo.etcd.io/etcd/server/v3/etcdserver.(*EtcdServer).GoAttach.func1\n\tgo.etcd.io/etcd/server/v3/etcdserver/server.go:2467"}

Started at least before 16 Nov based on testgrid history
Example:
https://prow.k8s.io/view/gs/kubernetes-ci-logs/logs/ci-etcd-e2e-amd64/1857887040968855552

What did you expect to happen?

Etcd should not write errors during startup

How can we reproduce it (as minimally and precisely as possible)?

Return test

Anything else we need to know?

No response

Etcd version (please run commands below)

$ etcd --version
# paste output here

$ etcdctl version
# paste output here

Etcd configuration (command line flags or environment variables)

paste your configuration here

Etcd debug information (please run commands below, feel free to obfuscate the IP address or FQDN in the output)

$ etcdctl member list -w table
# paste output here

$ etcdctl --endpoints=<member list> endpoint status -w table
# paste output here

Relevant log output

No response

[serathius]

Possibly flakes start after we added a new test in #18819

[serathius]

cc @ghouscht @ahrtr

[ghouscht]

I‘ll have a look later this week, thanks for notifying.

/assign