Hi Eugene: Please do post some notes on how you got SATA working - I know at least a few people who would benefit from it. I will also try to post it as a FAQ/HOWTO item in the website.
Thanks! Bernard > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of eugene > Sent: Wednesday, March 31, 2004 9:31 > To: eugene > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [Oscar-users] pbs and Complete Cluster Setup > > Hello again, > > Seems what was missing was a localhosts default entry in my servers' > hosts file. In my zelousness to get rid of all localhost > entries, I had deleted it. Either this or the double entry of > of the server hostname in the hosts file, I didnt check > which. Cluster test setup has been completed and all tests > passed succesfully. > > I am a happy man. > > Eugene > > PS. If anyone is interested in how to get a system with > RH9.0, SATA drives and/or Broadcom BCM5700 NIC drivers to > work let me know and I'll post a howto to the list. > > PPS. I have encountered another intermittent error when > running systemconfigurator on the client during install. > Sometimes (I think it is when the 2.4.20-8smp kernel rather > than the plain 2.4.20-8 kernel is selected as the default > boot kernel), the initrd image for the smp kernel fails > during creation which in turn does nasty things when I try to > boot the client. For some reason, the "VERSION" of the kernel > is set to "1.1.3" instead of 2.4.20-8smp. Of course there is no > /lib/modules/1.1.3 directory, so it falls over. Also the > systemimager.conf file gets somewhat scrambled as well, with > the default boot kernel label being truncated in an > unpredictable fashion. > > eugene wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > Another step closer to a working Oscar Installation. > > > > I have managed to get a client node up and running with all > neccesary > > drivers in place and SATA drive converted back to IDE device. > > > > Running the "Complete Cluster Setup" however produces the following > > error messages in the pbs section: > > > > about to run /opt/oscar/packages/pbs/scripts/post_install > for pbs PBS > > mom config file updated with clienthost: hydra01.icon-cg Pushing > > config file to clients... > > building file list ... done > > config > > wrote 154 bytes read 42 bytes 392.00 bytes/sec total size is 105 > > speedup is 0.54 Sending SIGHUP to all moms... > > ************************* oscar_cluster ************************* > > --------- hydra03.icon-cg--------- > > Shutting down PBS Server: [ OK ] > > Starting PBS Server: [ OK ] > > Updating pbs_server nodes > > /opt/pbs/bin/pbsnodes: Server has no node list create node > > hydra03.icon-cg np = 1 , properties = all Creating pbs > workq queue... > > Unknown Host. > > qmgr: cannot connect to server localhost qmgr obj=workq > svr=default: > > Queue already exists Max open servers: 4 create queue workq > > Configuration of PBS queues failed at > > /opt/oscar/packages/pbs/scripts/post_install line 260 Script > > /opt/oscar/packages/pbs/scripts/post_install exitted badly > with exit > > code '2' at ./post_install line 42 Couldn't run > 'post_install' script > > for pbs at ./post_install line 43 > > > > Now this is somewhat confusing to me, why is it making reference to > > localhost? There arent any localhosts to my knowledge. I am > thinking > > this is a small issue compared to my past trials, but > without knowing > > more about pbs and why and where it finds this Unknown Host, I cant > > move forward. > > > > Thanks again to Jeremy, Bernard, Edgar, Frank and all the > other folks > > who have helped me through this difficult time. > > > > Eugene > > > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > > This SF.Net email is sponsored by: IBM Linux Tutorials Free Linux > > tutorial presented by Daniel Robbins, President and CEO of GenToo > > technologies. Learn everything from fundamentals to system > > > administration.http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=1470&alloc_id=3638&op=click > > _______________________________________________ > > Oscar-users mailing list > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/oscar-users > > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.Net email is sponsored by: IBM Linux Tutorials Free > Linux tutorial presented by Daniel Robbins, President and CEO > of GenToo technologies. Learn everything from fundamentals to > system > administration.http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=1470&alloc_id=3638&op=click > _______________________________________________ > Oscar-users mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/oscar-users > > ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: IBM Linux Tutorials Free Linux tutorial presented by Daniel Robbins, President and CEO of GenToo technologies. Learn everything from fundamentals to system administration.http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id70&alloc_id638&op=click _______________________________________________ Oscar-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/oscar-users
