Achim Bohnet wrote:
Am 25.11.2008 um 20:32 schrieb Ryan Steele:
Adrian Gibanel Lopez wrote:
Hi list,
This is my first message. I am trying to setup FAI so that it serves
Ubuntu 8.10 as the client system.
I've already checked in launchpad that ubuntu's intrepid's fai
package
has been updated to gutsy. But hardy ?
For what it's worth, I took the Lenny packages from Tomas Lange's
website (3.2.14) and adapted it for Hardy. Works fine, but it did
require some massaging to alter the package names (for example, the
aufs packages in Ubuntu are provided by linux-ubuntu-modules and it's
ilk), kernel names, and other differences.
The ubuntu fai pkgs are build for an lauchpad bzr repo: lp:fai/ubuntu
See https://code.launchpad.net/fai. You can compare to lp:fai branch
with correponds to the debians code or build the ubuntu fai package.
The diff.gz will contain the ubuntu changes.
Would be nice if you could merge your changes. Or sent the diff
compared to debians sources.
Well, my installation is kind of hacked up now; I've completely removed
the FAIBASE, GERMAN, and other classes that I never use. And,
unfortunately, my FAI server isn't even Hardy yet, I'm just using it to
install Hardy clients. So it wouldn't be a very pristine diff -
definitely not representative of a stock installation. But, if you give
me a week or two (perhaps over this holiday weekend I can find some
time), I can try to grab a virgin copy of 3.2.14 on a Hardy box and
generate a diff. Are the Intrepid packages much different than the
Hardy packages? I admit, I'm guilty of not having looked at the repo in
quite some time, since I needed a more bleeding edge version than what
was available from those repo's when I constructed my FAI server.
Here there are some of the things that I have done so far:
- Added 192.168.1.5 demohost line to /etc/hosts line.
- Setup /etc/fai/apt/sources.list to intrepid
- Setup /etc/default/tftpd-hpa to my config.
- Idem with /etc/dhpc3/dhcp.conf
- Modified:
FAI_DEBOOTSTRAP="intrepid
file:/home/ubuntu_mirrors/us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu"
and:
FAI_DEBOOTSTRAP_OPTS="--exclude=dhcp-client,info
--include=aptitude,fontconfig,defoma,belocs-locales-bin"
in /etc/fai/make-fai-nfsroot.conf.
First line is obvious.
The second line tried to fix a bug about aptitute command not being
found
(now it is found) and the fontconfig,deforma,belocs-locales-bin
tried to
fix some lack of packages on the client (I think so) because of some
error
that I have.
Ah that's interesting.
If that's something folks are hitting, we should probably get some more
detail about what the user did to resolve the problem.
- Modified NFSROOT so that: console-tools and sysvinit are not
installed
and upstart is installed. (I thought that it was the origin of the
client
problems but I am not sure any more.)
- Followed the quick-start guide (copied the examples and so on)
Once fai-setup -v is finished I try to boot the client.
* It fetches ok kernel and initrd. I think it mounts the nfs ok.
However I am not very about itbecause it often outputs:
mount: error while loading share libraries: libsepol.so.1
I have checked the NFSROOT interpretation by make-fai-nfsroot and
libsepol
seems to be installed ok so I do not understand why that happens.
Are libsepol1 and libsepol1-dev both installed?
I run into the sam problem. It's not missing or wronge packages.
For whatever reason most path include a /root prefix so binaries
and libs are ther but not found.
I've compared a lenny nfsroot/initrd with the ones from ubuntu
but could not find the reason :(
This is something that I never hit when converting the Lenny packages to
Hardy. But your explanation isn't very clear to me - what do you mean
'most path include a /root prefix'? I can interpret that in several ways.
* It outputs wc not found but coreutils seems to be installed. Is there
any place where might I check the PATH?
Is the wc problem in the config space or in the client (/target)
space? You can chroot into the nfsroot on your FAI server to find
out pre-installation if it's in the nfsroot, and drop to a busybox
shell with a ctrl+c during the installation to find out if wc is
present in the client space.
Again wrong file path spec. wc and libs are there. Only not found.
Again, please clarify your statement above.
* It outputs grep: error while loading libpcre.so.3. What's the
associate
package for that?
Do an 'apt-cache search libpcre'; the answer should be self-evident.
* It outputs complaints about perl because of en_US.UTF_8 locale not
being
correctly installed. How do I fix it? (It is very annoying).
This is because the locale is not being set during the installation.
Make sure belocs-locales-bin, locales, and util-linux-locales are in
the list of packages installed to the client. You can then make a
custom script that executes something like the following to make sure
it's the default locale when you reboot:
$ROOTCMD bash -x -c "echo \"LANG='en_US.UTF-8'
LANGUAGE='en_US.UTF-8' LC_CTYPE='en_US.UTF-8'
LC_NUMERIC='en_US.UTF-8'
LC_TIME='en_US.UTF-8'
LC_COLLATE='en_US.UTF-8'
LC_MONETARY='en_US.UTF-8'
LC_MESSAGES='en_US.UTF-8'
LC_PAPER='en_US.UTF-8'
LC_NAME='en_US.UTF-8'
LC_ADDRESS='en_US.UTF-8'
LC_TELEPHONE='en_US.UTF-8'
LC_MEASUREMENT='en_US.UTF-8'
LC_IDENTIFICATION='en_US.UTF-8'\" >> /etc/environment"
As long as LC_* is not expictly set, the default to LANG. So
equivalent version is
$ROOTCMD bash -x -c "echo LANG=en_US.UTF-8
LANGUAGE=en_US.UTF-*" >> /etc/environment
Maybe I'm wrong but I think LANGUAGE is just set to en
No, I believe you are right. I just like to be very explicit in my
config settings, instead of relying on implicit rules. Just in case
there is some edge case I don't know about. I don't know if it's
practical paranoia or not, but it certainly doesn't hurt, and required
only a few extra keystrokes :)
That's just off the top of my head, so there may be typos :P
Same for me ;)
Once more please feel free to look at the sources at bzr branch
lp:fai/ubuntu It contains latest debian code + ubuntu changes
but does not boot due to the /root prefix that comes from nowhere.
Any help fixing it is welcome.
Are these built for Intrepid? I haven't had time to look at the repo
yet, but if so, I suppose I can put Intrepid on one of my boxes this
weekend (I've been meaning to do that anyways) and give it the old
college try.
Achim
I also, just as an extra precautionary measure, install postgres like
this in Hardy, since the postgresql-8.3 package uses the default
locale (which in my case and in your case was/is 'C' or 'POSIX'):
$ROOTCMD bash -x -c "export LANG='en_US.UTF-8' LANGUAGE='en_US.UTF-8'
LC_CTYPE='en_US.UTF-8' LC_NUMERIC='en_US.UTF-8' LC_TIME='en_US.UTF-8'
LC_COLLATE='en_US.UTF-8' LC_MONETARY='en_US.UTF-8'
LC_MESSAGES='en_US.UTF-8' LC_PAPER='en_US.UTF-8'
LC_NAME='en_US.UTF-8' LC_ADDRESS='en_US.UTF-8'
LC_TELEPHONE='en_US.UTF-8' LC_MEASUREMENT='en_US.UTF-8'
LC_IDENTIFICATION='en_US.UTF-8' && apt-get -y install postgresql-8.3
postgresql-common postgresql-client-8.3 postgresql-client-common"
And finally (not related to the client boot) I have also seen that when
parsing NFSROOT file is not finding any ext2resize package.
Is it a problem? How do I solve it?
If you want ext2resize in your nfsroot, put it in /etc/fai/NFSROOT
and run make-fai-nfsroot -k
Thank you very much for all the help you can provide. I am here for
providing any information that you request me.
Adrian
