On Wed, Feb 29, 2012 at 3:11 PM, Thomas Fischer <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi all, > > I am setting up my first FAI server (debian) for a beowulf cluster > (also debian), and i am experiencing the following issue: > > The fai client fails to mount the debian mirror from the FAI server. > The installation fails trying to apt-update, then i ssh into the > client. Config space and nfs are correctly mounted, but the mirror > isnt. Trying to manually mount the mirror shows: > > # mount 192.168.0.1:/srv/debmirror /media/mirror > mount.nfs: rpc.statd is not running but is required for remote > locking. Either use '-o nolock' to keep locks local, or start statd. > > If i start rpc.statd or append the option '-o nolock', the mirror > mounts fine. I find it strange given that the mirror already correctly > mounted the config space and the nfs. The client tried because > daemon.log on server shows: > > ... authenticated mount request from 192.168.0.95:641 for > /srv/debmirror (/srv/debmirror) > > my fai.conf: > ---------- > LOGUSER=fai > LOGSERVER=192.168.0.1 > FAI_LOGPROTO=ssh > FAI_DEBMIRROR=192.168.0.1:/srv/debmirror > MNTPOINT=/media/mirror > FAI=/var/lib/fai/config > ---------- > > and my default PXE config > ---------- > # generated by fai-chboot for host default with IP no IP > default fai-generated > > label fai-generated > kernel vmlinuz-2.6.26-2-amd64 > append initrd=initrd.img-2.6.26-2-amd64 ip=dhcp root=/dev/nfs > nfsroot=/srv/fai/nfsroot boot=live FAI_FLAGS=verbose,sshd,reboot > FAI_ACTION=install SERVER=192.168.0.1 > ---------- > > I am running out of ideas, has anyone experienced something similar? > I found the following thread > http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.debian.fai/7366/focus=7370 but it > didnt helped me out. >
After looking closer, i realized that the client actually achieves mounting, it just mounts the debian mirror to another location. The relevant lines of the mount output are: rootfs on / type rootfs (rw) /dev/sda1 on /target type ext3 (rw,noatime,errors=remount-ro,data=ordered) 192.168.0.1:/srv/debmirror on /target/media/mirror type nfs (ro,noatime,vers=3,rsize=262144,wsize=262144,namlen=255,acregmin=1800,acregmax=1800,acdirmin=1800,acdirmax=1800,hard,nointr,nolock,proto=tcp,timeo=600,retrans=2,sec=sys,mountproto=udp,addr=192.168.0.1) Why is the mirror beeing mounted on the installation disk (/target/media/mirror) ? I expected it to be mounted on /media/mirror of the nfsroot. Did i miss something in the configuration? Or is this the expected behaviour? Best regards, Thomas -- restate my assumptions: 1. Mathematics is the language of nature. 2. Everything around us can be represented and understood through numbers. 3. If you graph these numbers, patterns emerge. Therefore: There are patterns everywhere in nature. Max Cohen, PI
