Hi,
[...]
I've just implemented some Automated tests.
the doc(1) say: Test scripts are called via fai-do-scripts(1) and
should append it's messages to $LOGDIR/test.log.
But I've found that the logs are appended to $LOGDIR/shell.log
[...]
Fai use fai-do-scripts command and expect logs
Hi Fredrik,
[...]
We noticed that, after an installation where we preserve a LVM
volume under RAID (thanks again for that functionality), the
partition table will look like this,
Despite Julien's comment about raid-autodetect being deprecated I'd like to
fully understand the (potential)
Hi,
[...]
This mail is to inform you that a new lens for FAI disk_config files was
added to Augeas. It can currently be found in the git repository of the
Augeas project [1]. This lens will turn disk_config files into a tree that
can be parsed with xpath using Augeas.
[...]
Thanks a lot
Hi again,
[...]
I have noticed that the schema on the wiki is outdated, and sometimes not
functional even. With the lens in the current state, I've been able to
successfully parse 477 disk_config files we use in production. I'd be happy
to get more tricky cases to test if you wish to send
Hi,
Would you mind taking a look at the logtail patch that's been sitting in
experimental for almost forever already?
I don't see how this can possibly work on something like the kernel message
buffer. Its contents will rotate once it runs full so the offset noted by
logtail will no
Hi Thomas,
Could you please add a warning about existing (but now unused) *.asc files?
After all, this was supported since version 3.3 and fixed bugs #363701,#504018,
hence I'd expect a number of users of this feature who will find their config no
longer works.
Thanks a lot,
Michael
Author:
Just for the record:
[...]
Would you mind sending the patch? I just want to make sure I patch the right
places and don't claim this is fixed in trunk and tested when what you test
is a
completely different code...
Patch was received, with further ideas for improvements. All of which are
Julien BLACHE jbla...@debian.org wrote:
Hi,
I can provide that tomorrow; basically having an extended partition that
takes all the remaining disk space should trigger the bug.
Attached.
Works for me(TM) just fine. Well, to be honest I found that fai-vol_id would
sometimes fail on
Hi all and Julien in particular,
[...]
One issue I'm seeing is the end position for the last partition
exceeding the device size when that last partition is an extended
partition.
Would you have a disk config available, where you've seen breakage? I'd then
check it... If not, could you give
Hi,
[...]
After reading just the changelog I doubt they let it in :-) (But do try!)
But, two of the closed important bugs (from the bts) still seem worthwhile
fixing in stable... (offline atm, so I cannot look up the numbers.)
I've only now reviewed the changelog myself and indeed the
Hi all,
The following applies to trunk+experimental, hence not reporting a bug right
now. I haven't checked, however, whether 3.4.8 might also be affected. So let's
rock:
[...]
FAI_CONFIG_SRC is set to svn+ssh://root@myserver/my/path/fai
svn: Write error: Broken pipe
/var/lib/fai/config already
Hi all,
MT wrote:
Does that sufficiently clarify documentation?
I think so. This could at least help some people who wonder about this
behaviour.
prefer not to change the semantics of these numbers as that might break
existing
setups in unexpected (and very dangerous) ways.
I
Hi Julien,
[...]
Unfortunately, with msdos partition tables this doesn't yield the exact
same result due to alignment issues. Basically, I'm only using the
script for GPT partition tables aligned to 1 MiB boundary.
[...]
I have no idea about the python-parted API, but isn't there some
Thanks Michael for adding this patch. I also like to add the patch to
FAI, but had no time in the past.
[...]
If anybody could do just a very brief test of the changed version, it could then
probably migrate into trunk real soon? I'll be using this modified version of
fcopy on one of my
JFTR,
if you patch doc/fai-guide.txt, you should also updte the date (line
8) of the document.
In 3.4.4 the patch [2dbf3c5] fai-guide.txt: changed it, but didn't
update the date.
Sorry, this was my fault; shall I fix this in trunk, at least?
Best,
Michael
pgpeD2GEY6ggG.pgp
Hi Michael,
Michael Tautschnig wrote:
That helped a lot in debugging; could you please give the version mentioned
above another try? In case it fails again, would you please send another
debug
log?
At the moment I'm busy doing other things, so I won't be able to test it
any time soon
Hi Michael,
Hello,
Is it possible that the following is valid:
Index: bin/install_packages
===
--- bin/install_packages(revision 6118)
+++ bin/install_packages(working copy)
@@ -184,7 +184,7 @@
my
Michael Tautschnig m...@debian.org wrote:
might commit a somewhat different version. Yet, I don't see this as
critical as
it's just about preserving swap partitions, which does seem to be a very
rare
scenario.
Just commit a patch that refuses to preserve a swap partition ;) I'm
[...]
... I was kind of aware of the fact that linux-swap(v1) was shown by parted,
but
its documentation does not state that it would also be acceptable as input to
mkpart and frieds. But of course I hadn't thought of the fact that my code
would
try to rebuild a partition as shown by
Hi Peter!
Hello again,
If I'm correct, then the included setup-storage should support raid on
whole
disks, and LVM on top of it. But if I use:
[...]
While this probably should work, and I'll look into this again to see what is
broken, the following workaround should
* Michael Tautschnig m...@debian.org [Fri Oct 01, 2010 at 06:49:20PM +0200]:
Please comment ASAP, I'd like to release it until beginning of next
week so Stephan gets a chance for pushing 3.4.3 into Ubuntu as well.
Full ACK, I'd just like to request 6091 to be taken into account
Hi,
IMHO it's a good practice for any project to document existing
policies, workflows and the way developers handle their stuff.
As a starting point I thought about documenting my workflow WRT
stable release management in FAI. There we are:
http://grml.org/tmp/fai-release.txt
If
[...]
- It would be great to see this on the FAI wiki, I believe this would be the
most appropriate place.
This was my plan, in the long run I'd like to have something like
http://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/internals/contributing/ for
FAI.
That's a very nice document indeed;
Hi Julien,
Michael Tautschnig m...@debian.org wrote:
Hi,
absolutely fine if the fix goes in via this patch). Just one stylistic note:
Unless I'm missing something, the following if ... elsif ...
-if (FAI::set_partition_type_on_phys_dev($d, raid)) {
+ if ($vol-{preserve
[...] (nice and detailed explanation of intended stable workflow)
Is this correct? Does it sound reasonable and would be fine for you?
Hopefully I didn't mix up anything WRT
merging/commiting/rebasing/ Please correct me if I mixed up
something. :)
Full ACK. Absolutely reasonable and
Hi Mika,
[...]
Can you please commit your setup-storage_do-partition-table-first to
a branch so I can sync it for 3.4.1 release?
I'll take the freedom to merge this into trunk and bump the beta revision;
I'm sure that's fine for Thomas, so please go ahead.
[...]
Please
[...]
That proposal for patch-comment formatting clashes a bit with automated
builds
on alioth: The script on alioth expects the patch author's name in the first
line and a detailed explanation to be given only afterwards (both of which
go in
the changelog); essentially this is
Hi Thomas,
I've created a little roadmap for the FAI development. It includes
some topics I like to work on for the next release and a brief
timeline. Comments are welcome.
Thanks a lot for sharing your plans!! Just a few quick comments, I might add
some more comments in a few days.
-
On Tue, 20 Jul 2010 16:20:53 +0100, Michael Tautschnig
m...@debian.org said:
- Please make that DHCP-transition-bug top priority. We really
shouldn't be
blocking transitions. (Well, they'll ignore FAI anyway, but it's just
such a
small change that only requires
I'm wondering if fai-client should really depend on fai-setup-storage?
Instead, I would prefer it recommends fai-setup-storage and maybe
fai-nfsroot depends on fai-setup-storage. Does this make sense?
I'm wondering whether we need the Recommends at all - shouldn't even the
dependency in
Hi everyone,
[...]
What made the problem difficult to debug was the fact setup-storage
or, more precisely, the partition script created by setup-storage did
not fail during FAI_INSTALL even though mkfs.ext4 returned with exit
code 1.
Since I am not that familiar with setup-storage yet,
Hi,
while trying to debug a problem with setup-storage in our local FAI
configuration, I stumbled across a small spelling error in
bin/install_packages. Please find the attached patch.
[...]
Although only a typo, I've included the patch in the experimental builds for
it not to be
Hi Torge,
On Sat, 29 May 2010 18:06:02 +0200, Michael Tautschnig m...@debian.org
wrote:
I think it's just that nobody requested it before. But it should be
pretty
straight forward to come up with a patch: Just check for : in the
hostname and
handle this accordingly in the host2hex
Hi!
Is there any good reason for this, that it is not possible to initiate
installations based on the MAC address?
Like making an output-file 01-00-11-22-33-44-55 from fai-chboot -IBv
00:11:22:33:44:55 ??
Is this a design decision or did it simply needed no one?
I
Julien BLACHE jbla...@debian.org wrote:
We're going to find out in a few minutes, as I have fixes for the
grub-pc patch to remove Perl warnings and fix the code for /boot on RAID
:)
And that failed due to:
trunk-w-exp/debian/fai-setup-storage% ls -l
total 4
drwxrwxr-x 2 mt mt 4096
Michael Tautschnig m...@debian.org wrote:
Hi,
as well: Would you mind adding those patches to the experimental branch
yourself? I don't know whether you already have commit rights in the FAI
repository, but I guess Thomas could take care of this pretty much
So everything has been
Michael Tautschnig m...@debian.org wrote:
Hi,
So everything has been taken care of and I've just added the 3 patches
to the experimental branch. Hopefully I've got it right :)
I guess you did, but it seems there are some permission issues with
autobuilding
on alioth. I'll try
Hi Julien,
I'll reply to this one first; one general remark applies to your other patches
as well: Would you mind adding those patches to the experimental branch
yourself? I don't know whether you already have commit rights in the FAI
repository, but I guess Thomas could take care of this pretty
And another one ...
Hi,
The attached patch (code only) adds support for external log devices for
XFS and ext3/4 to setup-storage.
External log devices can improve performance a lot when they reside on a
different physical device than the filesystem itself.
Ok.
Due to the way mkfs
* Kurt Gramlich k...@skolelinux.de [100329 21:34]:
hallo Liste,
alles in Debian Lenny mit Virtualbox 3.0
mit VirtualBox habe ich einen faiserver aufgebaut. Im internen
Netz habe ich verschiedene pxe clients probiert und dabei auch
die verschiedenen Einstellungen in
Hi FAI developers,
following patch for the experimental tree implements the possibility
to use a squashfs compressed config space downloaded via http.
I use a md5 checksum file to verify a complete download and to
minimize unneeded downloads of the config space to reduce bandwith.
I
Hi FAI developers,
it seems that fstab generation still contains the bug, that
swap will be checked. Attached patch fixes it for me.
Up to now the patch for this issue only sits in experimental, see also
http://bugs.debian.org/568800
Testing this version is greatly appreciated :-)
Best,
[...]
This has already been fixed in the experimental builds, see also
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=568794
The patch does more or less what you proposed to change; I just tried to
make it
slightly easier later on to also distinguish GiB/GB once also parted
Hi FAI Developers,
recently Ubuntu changed the default lvm.conf file, they now use
following:
-
# Since version 2.02.54, the tools distinguish between powers of
# 1024 bytes (e.g. KiB, MiB, GiB) and powers of 1000 bytes (e.g.
# KB, MB, GB).
# If you have scripts that
On Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 09:55:42PM +0100, Thomas Lange thus spake:
On Mon, 11 Jan 2010 11:42:53 -0800, Jason Helfman jhelf...@e-e.com
said:
- Is the tool parted available?
No.
Oh, that's bad. Our partinioning tool depends on parted, and rewriting
it is not possible.
[...]
As we use udevsettle the second command will never get executed. I'll try
to
come up with a fix as soon as possible (it's not that hard, just gotta do it).
The problems should be solved in 3.2.21+experimental3. Please see
http://faiwiki.debian.net/index.php/Main_Page#getting_FAI
Henning Sprang [Wed, Apr 08, 2009 at 04:57:25PM +0200]:
Nico -telmich- Schottelius wrote:
- using -apache2 just resulted in package not found error
I never used that myself, but isn't it apache2- ?
Oh, yes, sorry!
- Why does removing fail?
Can you try to run FAI in verbose
Henning Sprang [Wed, Apr 08, 2009 at 04:57:25PM +0200]:
Nico -telmich- Schottelius wrote:
- using -apache2 just resulted in package not found error
I never used that myself, but isn't it apache2- ?
Oh, yes, sorry!
- Why does removing fail?
Can you try to run FAI
Holger Levsen wrote:
resend to fai-devel, as bcc:s are stuck in moderation. Thomas is it ok to
commit the attached patch to trunk? (IMO its a waste of time to file a bug
for this and it's clearly a serious bug.)
Hi Luk,
Hi Holger
Note that we want to get rid of net-tools using
Hi Luk,
On Samstag, 21. März 2009, Luk Claes wrote:
Note that we want to get rid of net-tools using packages. I'll look into
a patch that uses iproute instead if that's ok?
Noted cool. (And what Michael said.)
Still atm fai is seriously buggy in that depends regard, so unless you
Hello,
I found a problem reinstalling a host using an existing volume group
name. The regexp used to find out the total space of the vg fails when
the vg exists and has no free space:
system 69280.00 MB [69280.00 MB used / 0 MB free]
This patch changes the regexp to permit a non-float
I've been having some problems when using lvm configurations. The normal
partitioning, and the raid configurations are both working just fine. I
haven't tried testing preserve or anything fancy. When using raid, the
disk_var.sh still shows /dev/md0 as the boot device. I don't know if
Hi!
[...]
Meinungen?
Da ich ja schon seit einiger Zeit am (hoffentlich) Nachfolger von
setup_harddisks arbeite, habe ich mir die Sache mal angesehen:
Es scheint sich dabei ja doch eher um ein sehr spezielles Problem zu handeln,
von dem wohl nur sehr wenige Benutzer betroffen sind. Daher
Hi,
On Saturday 24 November 2007 19:28, Maximilian Wilhelm wrote:
But luckily, Storage Magic isn't far anymore...
I'll have a look at it.
The word magic is kind of 'warning'...
I agree. I liked the old name, setup harddisks 2, better.
It's more descriptive, less cryptic.
But I
[...]
Other ideas: setup harddisk ng, storage setup
Hmm, the last describes it's goals and work best - if storage is
something remotely, we are not setting up a harddisk, and it is no magic
but hard calculation... (no, we shouldn't call it hard storage setup
calculator and setup tool :) )
[...]
The downside of setup harddisks is, that probably nobody will add
patches to it anymore...
Why not?
[...]
For the simple reason that Storage Magic is intended to be the successor of
setup_harddisks, so I guess we won't integrate any new features into
setup_harddisks anymore,
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