Hi, I am installing OSCAR 5.0, with Fedora Core 5 fresh install on a server node. Everything goes smooth until I try to push OSCAR image to slave nodes via network boot (PXE). If I select rsync as a transport, oscar_wizard proceeds to network-booting a node just fine, partitions hard drive, creates local filesystem and initiates rsync image transfer without any errors or warnings reported. Then the transfer will abort at about 50% and time out. There is no errors whatsoever reported, it just stops abruptly. I can still ping slave node from the server node and after install script fails on the node upon rsync timeout and throws a shell prompt I can also ping server node from the slave, but alas - no rsync traffic at all. I initially suspected a hardware problem and tried replacing network switch, cables, power cycling both head node and slave, etc. Nothing helped. I also tried disabling firewall, no effect. However, now every next attempt after the initial failure the image transfer will not even start, just sits at 0% and eventually times out. Which looks more like a software problem to me. All other transport options work fine, e.g. BitTorrent, multicast, but I'd really like to be able to use rsync since it is by far the fastest transport supported.
On a related issue: should I try upgrading server node OS (with yume) before creating slave images? Will this put updated rsync into the image or is it a fixed part of SystemImager network boot image (together with the kernel)? Cheers, Ivan Adzhubey ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/ _______________________________________________ Oscar-users mailing list Oscar-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/oscar-users
