NodeRef is missing from machines

[uhthomas]

I'm running into an issue with clusterctl move where it thinks the nodes are not provisioned. This is not the case as I am the Kubernetes cluster is running and healthy.

❯ clusterctl move --kubeconfig-context=admin@unwind-bootstrap --to-kubeconfig=$HOME/.kube/config --to-kubeconfig-context=admin@unwind -v10
No default config file available
Performing move...
Discovering Cluster API objects
MetalMachineTemplate Count=2
TalosControlPlane Count=1
Secret Count=15
MachineDeployment Count=1
MetalCluster Count=1
TalosConfigTemplate Count=1
ServerBinding Count=5
Machine Count=5
MetalMachine Count=5
Cluster Count=1
Environment Count=1
ConfigMap Count=1
ServerClass Count=1
Server Count=5
TalosConfig Count=5
MachineSet Count=1
Total objects Count=51
Excluding secret from move (not linked with any Cluster) name="siderolink"
Error: failed to get object graph: failed to check for provisioned infrastructure: [cannot start the move operation while the control plane for "/, Kind=" default/unwind is not yet initialized, cannot start the move operation while "/, Kind=" default/unwind-cp-dbnpd is still provisioning the node, cannot start the move operation while "/, Kind=" default/unwind-cp-89sgs is still provisioning the node, cannot start the move operation while "/, Kind=" default/unwind-cp-wrc8j is still provisioning the node, cannot start the move operation while "/, Kind=" default/unwind-cp-49wdk is still provisioning the node, cannot start the move operation while "/, Kind=" default/unwind-cp-mmg97 is still provisioning the node]
sigs.k8s.io/cluster-api/cmd/clusterctl/client/cluster.(*objectMover).Move
        sigs.k8s.io/cluster-api/cmd/clusterctl/client/cluster/mover.go:96
sigs.k8s.io/cluster-api/cmd/clusterctl/client.(*clusterctlClient).move
        sigs.k8s.io/cluster-api/cmd/clusterctl/client/move.go:125
sigs.k8s.io/cluster-api/cmd/clusterctl/client.(*clusterctlClient).Move
        sigs.k8s.io/cluster-api/cmd/clusterctl/client/move.go:97
sigs.k8s.io/cluster-api/cmd/clusterctl/cmd.runMove
        sigs.k8s.io/cluster-api/cmd/clusterctl/cmd/move.go:101
sigs.k8s.io/cluster-api/cmd/clusterctl/cmd.glob..func16
        sigs.k8s.io/cluster-api/cmd/clusterctl/cmd/move.go:59
github.com/spf13/cobra.(*Command).execute
        github.com/spf13/[email protected]/command.go:916
github.com/spf13/cobra.(*Command).ExecuteC
        github.com/spf13/[email protected]/command.go:1044
github.com/spf13/cobra.(*Command).Execute
        github.com/spf13/[email protected]/command.go:968
sigs.k8s.io/cluster-api/cmd/clusterctl/cmd.Execute
        sigs.k8s.io/cluster-api/cmd/clusterctl/cmd/root.go:99
main.main
        sigs.k8s.io/cluster-api/cmd/clusterctl/main.go:27
runtime.main
        runtime/proc.go:250
runtime.goexit
        runtime/asm_amd64.s:1594

This error message leads to here which suggests the machines are missing a NodeRef? Why? What information can I give you to help understand this? The logs don't show anything interesting from what I can see.

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Originally raised here.