Hello,

> Thank you.  Regarding your suggestion should I run "cexec mount /home" on the
> server or the client or both?  I am a bit confused.  I am dieing to know why
> this is happening.

You have to run this command as root from the server. It will exec
remotely on all nodes the command (in this case, the /home will be
mounted from NFS).

The reasons can be numerous but one of them is that your NFS server was
maybe down when the node booted .

> Would it have worked to repear the whole install/setup strictly logged in as
> root (including startx from root so there is no trace of other non-root user
> accounts that OSCAR could pick up)?

Well, yes, by running the OSCAR wizard another time (IIRC the complete
cluster setup) then the /home will have been mounted on the /home.

However, because most of your users will be regular (unprivilegied)
users, the tests are performed with a regular user (oscartest) so that
this kind of problem can be detected ... and corrected !

Ben
> Vincent Randal
> Longmont, CO
> 
> --- Benoit des Ligneris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 
> > hello,
> > 
> > Most of the time, it signify that the /home directory is not mounted by
> > NFS on your client nodes.
> > 
> > Can you, as root, run
> > cexec mount /home
> > 
> > And then try again ?
> > 
> > Why this is happening is another problem...
> > 
> > Ben
> > * Vincent Randal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [04-11-03 18:00]:
> > > All,
> > > 
> > > This is my first post to this list.  I searched the archive and looked for
> > an
> > > answer in the FAQ oscar.sf.net and did not see an answer.  My apologoies if
> > I
> > > have missed something simple here.
> > > 
> > > Question: Why do I need to give a password for [EMAIL PROTECTED] as shown
> > in
> > > the excerpt from step 7 below?  I did "startx" from a vtrandal login, but
> > after
> > > that I did all my work as root (twice to be sure).
> > > 
> > > --> Step 7: Running: ./post_install
> > > Gathering processor count from oscarnode1.oscardomain.
> > > Warning: Permanently added 'oscarnode1.oscardomain,192.168.20.101' (RSA) to
> > the
> > > Updating database for machine oscarnode1.oscardomain.
> > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]'s password:
> > > 
> > > The are numerous password prompts during step 7, and each time a write to
> > disk
> > > on client is involved the write fails presumably because user vtrandal does
> > not
> > > root priviledges on the client.
> > > 
> > > My guess is that step 7 should logging into the client as root and not
> > > vtrandal.  I am thinking about running the start_over script, removing user
> > > vtrandal, and doing a console login as root, running "startx" as root,
> > > repeating the whole OSCAR install/setup process.  I know X will complain
> > about
> > > running under a root login, but I want to try it anyway so OSCAR should
> > have no
> > > trace of vtrandal.
> > > 
> > > Any ideas?
> > > 
> > > Vincent Randal
> > > Longmont, CO  
> > > 
> > > 
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> > > > Today's Topics:
> > > > 
> > > >    1. Re: errors while pushing image to client (Rajiv)
> > > > 
> > > > --__--__--
> > > > 
> > > > Message: 1
> > > > From: "Rajiv" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > > > To: "Benoit des Ligneris" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > > > Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > > > Subject: Re: [Oscar-users] errors while pushing image to client
> > > > Date: Sun, 31 Oct 2004 11:10:04 +0530
> > > > 
> > > > Dear Benoit,
> > > >     I have tried with another set of P4 IDE machines. Now I get no dhcp 
> > > > offers received error during PXE boot of the client. dhcp is running on 
> > > > master and all devices are getting sensed sucessfully during PXE booting
> > of 
> > > > the slave.
> > > > 
> > > > Regards,
> > > > Rajiv
> > > > ----- Original Message ----- 
> > > > From: "Benoit des Ligneris" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > > > To: "Rajiv" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > > > Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > > > Sent: Friday, October 29, 2004 8:01 PM
> > > > Subject: Re: [Oscar-users] errors while pushing image to client
> > > > 
> > > > 
> > > > > Hello,
> > > > >
> > > > > It looks like the device /dev/sda is not present.
> > > > > Are you sure that the SCSI drive is /dev/sda (look for /dev/sdb, etc.)?
> > > > >
> > > > > In order to modify a posteriori the partitioning of the image, please
> > > > > have a look at /var/lib/systemimager/scripts/oscarimage.master
> > > > >
> > > > > You can modify the installation script from this point.
> > > > >
> > > > > If you want to regenerate a brand new image, please adjust
> > > > > /opt/oscar/oscarsamples/sample.disk.scsi
> > > > > to use another drive.
> > > > >
> > > > > Ben
> > > > >
> > > > > * Rajiv <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [04-10-29 02:29]:
> > > > >>    Dear All,
> > > > >>
> > > > >>        I am installing OSCAR 2.3- Red-Hat 9.0 on Intel Harlingen
> > machines
> > > > >>    all 3  are  identical configuration  - SCSI drive - One master and
> > two
> > > > >>    clients.  I  am finding problems while loading the image of the
> > master
> > > > >>    to the client during PXE booting. I get
> > > > >>
> > > > >>
> > > > >>
> > > > >>    Partitioning /dev/sda
> > > > >>
> > > > >>    Error: Couldn't stat device /dev/sda - No such file or directory
> > > > >>
> > > > >>    parted -s --dev/sda mklabel msdos ||shellout
> > > > >>
> > > > >>    Error: Couldn't stat device /dev/sda - No such file or directory
> > > > >>
> > > > >>    What  should  I  do  now.  I  have  included  kernel  support  to
> > SCSI
> > > > >>    driver-aic79xx  and  network  driver.  During  PXE  boot my client
> > say
> > > > >>    "using  /lib/modules/2.4.20_boel/scsi_mod.o.  Does any change
> > expected
> > > > >>    here.  I  think  system  is detecting the SCSI drive and giving
> > errors
> > > > >>    only during partitioning.
> > > > >>
> > > > >>    Regards,
> > > > >>    Rajiv
> > > > >
> > > > > -- 
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President de Revolution Linux     http://www.revolutionlinux.com/
OSCAR Chair                    http://oscar.openclustergroup.org/
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