Failure in multiple specs | Invalid login or password

Summary

Tests fail with invalid login or password.

We're beginning to see this failure across multiple specs and am beginning to wonder if these are all related.

These latest occurrences appear in the following specs:

• ./qa/specs/features/api/3_create/repository/project_archive_compare_spec.rb
• ./qa/specs/features/browser_ui/4_verify/ci_variable/pipeline_with_protected_variable_spec.rb

This has additionally been seen in the following specs:

• ./qa/specs/features/browser_ui/3_create/snippet/add_comment_to_snippet_spec.rb (#351059 (closed))
• ./qa/specs/features/browser_ui/3_create/merge_request/merge_merge_request_from_fork_spec.rb:20 (#343801 (closed))
• ./qa/specs/features/browser_ui/3_create/web_ide/link_to_line_in_web_ide_spec.rb
  • https://ops.gitlab.net/gitlab-org/quality/production/-/jobs/6151617

Job logs for the first two specs, respectively:

• https://ops.gitlab.net/gitlab-org/quality/canary/-/jobs/6121163
• https://ops.gitlab.net/gitlab-org/quality/canary/-/jobs/6121212

Stack trace

After performing an action that leads to a UI log in:

   QA::Page::Validatable::PageValidationError:
     navbar did not appear on QA::Page::Main::Menu as expected

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