Merge pull request #32521 from kubernetes/revert-32420-e2e-teardown-on-up

Automatic merge from submit-queue

Revert "e2e: only tear down existing cluster if it exists"

Reverts kubernetes/kubernetes#32420

This broke more things. We're going to backport the `|| true` fix to 1.2 -- doing just enough maintenance on old branches to keep upgrades working with new infra changes.

hack/e2e.go

@@ -94,9 +94,7 @@ func main() {
 		}
 	}
 
-	// TODO: remove the IsUp() check after we stop testing 1.2 and earlier
+	if *up {
-	// (or if we figure out a better way to handle TearDown failing on nonexisting clusters on old releases).
-	if *up && IsUp() {
 		if err := TearDown(); err != nil {
 			log.Fatalf("error tearing down previous cluster: %v", err)
 		}