Hello, We are trying to perform a kickstart based bare metal install of centos 5 on Dell T610 machines. While performing the reload of this T610 node through vcl, the rinstall fails.
2012-11-14 12:36:58|17746|37:37|new|xCAT2.pm:load(339)|attempting to open rinstall lockfile: /tmp/rinstall.lockfile 2012-11-14 12:36:58|17746|37:37|new|xCAT2.pm:load(341)|opened lockfile, attempting to obtain lock 2012-11-14 12:36:58|17746|37:37|new|xCAT2.pm:load(343)|obtained exclusive lock on /tmp/rinstall.lockfile 2012-11-14 12:36:58|17746|37:37|new|utils.pm:insertloadlog(3703)|inserted computer=1, rinstall, starting install process 2012-11-14 12:36:58|17746|37:37|new|xCAT2.pm:load(347)|executing rinstall managed_node_610 2012-11-14 12:36:58|17746|37:37|new|xCAT2.pm:load(350)|beginning rinstall attempt 1 on managed_node_610 2012-11-14 12:36:58|17746|37:37|new|xCAT2.pm:load(354)|nodeset managed_node_610 install nodeset managed_node_610 failure: at /opt/xcat/bin/rinstall line 53. 2012-11-14 12:36:58|17746|37:37|new|xCAT2.pm:load(440)|releasing exclusive lock on /tmp/rinstall.lockfile Manually executing the rinstall command works, however through vcl it leads to a failure. [root@gnl-ipws45 nshetty3]# rinstall managed_node_610 nodeset managed_node_610 install: install centos5-x86_64-centos5-base25-v0 managed_node_610: reset [root@gnl-ipws45 nshetty3]# tabdump nodetype #node,os,arch,profile,provmethod,supportedarchs,nodetype,comments,disable "managed_node_610","centos5","x86_64","centos5-base25-v0","install",,,, [root@gnl-ipws45 nshetty3]# Any pointers on why the rinstall could be failing ? Regards, Neha
