Dave --

This all sounds most excellent.

Any chance you can commit all your recent fixes to CVS in the near future (even if it's still a work in progress)?

Many thanks!


On Thu, 8 Jul 2004, Lombard, David N wrote:

In the last installment, I had appeared to have successfully completed
"build OSCAR client image" and failed at "define OSCAR clients". In
order to successfully complete the client definition, I had to make the
following mods:

1) The client image was missing /opt/mpich-1.2.5.10-ch_p4-gcc/bin.  This
was caused by a missing <rpmlist> block in packages/mpich/config.xml.
Adding the block corrected the initial failure to include any mpich
RPMs.

2) Once the mpich RPMs were included, update-rpms failed to install
mpich as it incorrectly reported a missing dependency.  A correction to
update-rpms then allowed the mpich RPMs to be installed.

As of now, I can successfully complete the "Setup networking..." step.
However, the clients will not build because the
/tftpboot/pxelinux.cfg/default file is incorrect, it's a "localboot"
file, not the expected SI kernel/initrd download file.  I manually
copied /etc/systemimager/pxelinux.cfg/syslinux.cfg to
/tftpboot/pxelinux.cfg/default; this allowed the client to boot and
build.  I will report this problem on the systemimager list, it may be
an SI problem or a failure to update oscar (scripts/setup_pxe) for the
current SI packages.

Having successfully built the client, the "complete cluster setup"
reported a successful completion, however, the "test cluster setup"
failed.  The first time the cluster test was run, it failed and
immediately closed the xterm window after only printing a couple of
lines; on the second run, the test hung with:

 SSH server->node        [EMAIL PROTECTED]'s password:

This failure occurred because oscartst does not exist as a user on
oscarnode1, i.e., /etc/passwd was not properly updated.

Beyond that,
- ssh as oscartst to the headnode worked properly
- ssh as root to oscarnode1 worked properly
- /home was NFS mounted from the headnode.

Back to the salt mines ;-)

--
David N. Lombard

My comments represent my opinions, not those of Intel Corporation.


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