At the end of the quick provision script it does a "(sleep 2; reboot) &" right before exiting. The intention is that the SSH call should return successfully, and then the device should reboot. It appears as if the script can finish, but the SSH call doesn't actually return successfully, and then when it's terminated by the reboot, the entire provisioned is failed.
From:
https://storage.cloud.google.com/chromeos-autotest-results/hosts/chromeos4-row6-rack9-host12/431248-provision/20182802083741/autoupdate_logs/CrOS_update_chromeos4-row6-rack9-host12_6975.log?_ga=2.155353147.-1609996729.1510708542
2018-02-28 08:42:55-08:00 INFO: Reboot (into cyan-paladin/R66-10446.0.0-rc2)
2018-02-28 08:42:55-08:00 INFO: Updated status: DUT: Reboot
KEYVAL: QUICK_PROVISION_start=1519835976
KEYVAL: QUICK_PROVISION_end=1519836175
KEYVAL: QUICK_PROVISION_elapsed=199
2018/02/28 08:43:34.879 DEBUG| cros_build_lib:0648| (stderr):
Warning: Permanently added 'chromeos4-row6-rack9-host12,100.115.197.86' (ED25519) to the list of known hosts.
Warning: Permanently added 'chromeos4-row6-rack9-host12,100.115.197.86' (ED25519) to the list of known hosts.
% Total % Received % Xferd Average Speed Time Time Time Current
Dload Upload Total Spent Left Speed
0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 --:--:-- --:--:-- --:--:-- 0
100 9663 100 9663 0 0 3145k 0 --:--:-- --:--:-- --:--:-- 4718k
Timeout, server chromeos4-row6-rack9-host12 not responding.
Comment 1 by bugdroid1@chromium.org
, Mar 2 2018