Hi list, after a few days of unsuccessful troubleshooting I'm afraid I have to ask for your help :-)
I'm using FAI quite a lot mainly installing Ubuntu 10.04 and Ubuntu 12.04-based servers and hosts. The FAI server itself is currently an Ubuntu 12.04-based machine. Basefiles are used to install different host flavours. All works as expected. Now I tried installing Ubuntu 14.04 using FAI. All classes have been adapted [1], install finishes without any relevant errors [2], but upon first reboot of the newly installed host, I get an ugly kernel panic: <snip> [...] EXT4-fs (vda2): mounted filesystem with ordered data mode. Opts: (null) Begin: Running /scripts/local-bottom ... done. Begin: Running /scripts/init-bottom ... done. Kernel panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill init! exitcode=0x00000000 CPU: 0 PID: 1 Comm: init Not tainted 3.13.0-29-generic #53 Ubuntu Hardware name: Bochs Bochs, BIOS Bochs 01/01/2007 [...] </snip> As you can see, this is a kvm-based virtual machine. Now for the important thing: If I use the same FAI setup to install Ubuntu 12.04 (using the 12.04 base.tgz image and sources.list) on the same machine, everything works out perfectly fine. But if I switch to the 14.04 base.tgz image, using the otherwise the same config [1] and the same disk layout [3] (using LVM), the kernel chickens out. Any idea what might be wrong? Or where to look at? Does anybody have a setup where installing Ubuntu 14.04 actually works? Cheers, Robert [1] The only difference in the config is: * the 14.04 basefile * the apt sources.list * and all apt GPG keys [2] Here is the FAI error.og: <snip> dmesg.log:[ 0.246039] HEST: Table not found. dmesg.log:[ 0.488455] ERST: Table is not found! dmesg.log:[ 56.008513] EXT4-fs (dm-0): mounted filesystem with ordered data mode. Opts: errors=remount-ro dmesg.log:[ 56.045362] EXT4-fs (vda1): mounted filesystem with ordered data mode. Opts: errors=remount-ro fai.log:Can't exec "mdadm-startall": No such file or directory at /usr/sbin/setup-storage line 138, <$config_file> line 1. format.log:Can't exec "mdadm-startall": No such file or directory at /usr/sbin/setup-storage line 138, <$config_file> line 1. shell.log:chroot: failed to run command `install-keymap': No such file or directory shell.log:cat: /boot/grub/video.lst: No such file or directory shell.log:Warning: Setting GRUB_TIMEOUT to a non-zero value when GRUB_HIDDEN_TIMEOUT is set is no longer supported. shell.log:Warning: Setting GRUB_TIMEOUT to a non-zero value when GRUB_HIDDEN_TIMEOUT is set is no longer supported. </snip> [3] And the disk config: <snip> # Physical disks disk_config vda bootable:1 fstabkey:uuid primary /boot 1G ext4 defaults,errors=remount-ro primary - 35G- - - # LVM setup disk_config lvm vg vgmain vda2 vgmain-sys_root / 10G ext4 defaults,errors=remount-ro vgmain-sys_var /var 10G-20G ext4 defaults,nosuid vgmain-sys_vartmp /var/tmp 1G ext4 defaults,noexec,nosuid,nodev vgmain-sys_tmp /tmp 1G ext4 defaults,noexec,nosuid,nodev vgmain-sys_home /home 1G ext4 defaults,noexec,nosuid,nodev vgmain-sys_swap swap 2G swap sw vgmain-storage_srv /srv 1G- ext4 defaults,noexec,nosuid,nodev </snip>
