Hi, I am currently experimenting with FAI for sarge. Since (approx.) last week I ran into problems when installing specific packages:
Every time a package postinst tries to add a user or a group, there comes the error message "rpcinfo: can't contact portmapper: RPC: Remote system error - Connection timed out" It looks like the portmapper on the installation client is not running as it should -- when using addgroup, there is a process "/usr/bin/rpcinfo -p", and this one seems to hang. If I try to restart the portmapper with /etc/init.d/portmap (re)start, this does not seem to work as it should should -- the portmapper is not running. If I run strace on portmap manually, the last two lines are: clone(child_stack=0, flags=CLONE_CHILD_CLEARTID|CLONE_CHILD_SETTID|SIGCHLD, child_tidptr=0x40038908) = 13936 exit_group(0) = ? Anyone experiencing the same problem? Any known bugs, of which I am not aware? Any workarounds? (The installation hangs for some minutes every time addgroup or adduser is invoked, but continues ...) Other hints, suggestions? Best regards, Alex P.S.: The installation server, it's NFS root, and my package mirror seem to be up to date, I upgraded last week to FAI 2.8.2, and today to 2.8.3. The problem occurred first last week, but I do not know if it related to a new version of the portmap or fai or any other package ... -- Alexander Bugl, Central IT Services, ZMAW Max Planck Institute for Meteorology Bundesstrasse 53, D-20146 Hamburg, Germany tel +49-40-41173-351, fax -298, room PE042
