CAST-40271: Conman restarting frequently due "Change detected in the river passwords..." resulting in missing conman logs.

- Fixed to ignore blank current credentials to avoid unnecessary ConMon restarts.

Author: ravikanth-nalla-hpe

CHANGELOG.md

@@ -7,15 +7,19 @@ and this project adheres to [Semantic Versioning](https://semver.org/spec/v2.0.0
 
 ## [Unreleased]
 
+## [2.10.3] - 2026-9-10
+### Fixed
+ - CASMTRIAGE-9260/CAST-40271: Conman restarting frequently due "Change detected in the river passwords..." resulting in missing conman logs.
+   - Fixed to ignore blank current credentials to avoid unnecessary ConMon restarts.
+
+## [2.10.2] - 2026-04-09
 ### Dependencies
 - Bump `github.com/go-jose/go-jose/v4` from 4.0.5 to 4.1.4 ([#133](https://github.com/Cray-HPE/console-node/pull/133))
 - CASMCMS-9640: Bump Golang 1.23 to 1.24
     - 1.23 is no longer supported
     - The updated `go-jose` version requires 1.24
     - This allowed `go-jose` to remove an external dependency that was a regular source of CVEs
 
-
-## [2.10.2] - 2026-04-09
 ### Dependencies
 - CASMCMS-9638: Update `zypper-refresh-patch-clean.sh` to ensure it applies all necessary patches
 - CASMCMS-9637: Update `zypper-docker-build.sh`

src/console_node/monitor.go

@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 //
 //  MIT License
 //
-//  (C) Copyright 2023-2025 Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development LP
+//  (C) Copyright 2023-2026 Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development LP
 //
 //  Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a
 //  copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"),
@@ -137,8 +137,8 @@ func checkIfRiverPasswordsChanged() bool {
 
 	for _, xname := range xnames {
 		currentCreds, ok := currentPasswords[xname]
-		if !ok {
-			log.Printf("Missing credentials detected for %s while checking for credential changes", xname)
+		if !ok || currentCreds.Username == "" || currentCreds.Password == "" {
+			log.Printf("WARNING: Missing/ Incomplete credentials detected for %s while checking for credentials changes", xname)
 			continue
 		}
 		previousCreds, _ := previousPasswords[xname]