I thought I'd ask people on the list if they've seen this, because
it's frustrating me.
Still trying to finish setting up OSCAR 5.1rc1 on a cluster of intel
quad-cores, master running Fedora 9. I was away for a bit; just getting
back to this.
I have the installation process getting painfully close to the end; "Step
6" in the GUI completes (apparently) successfully but the nodes do not
*quite* finish imaging correctly when I attempt to boot them after this,
before proceeding to testing. "Enable UYOK" and default systemimager-rsync
imaging/Install Mode, PXE-DHCP-TFTP booting, all successful, node disks
get partitioned and populated, and they encouraging show up in the
"Monitor Cluster Deployment" window (bottom of "step 6") for a full five
minutes... and then the installs fail at the 99% complete point.
Checking a console connected to a node, SystemImager is dying when trying
to set up a bootloader: it claims DEFAULTBOOT was not specied. I looked
around on the web and see reference several times to DEFAULTBOOT being set
to the kernel name in /etc/systemconfig/systemconfig.conf (which is
modified by the OSCAR installation GUI, step 6, when you click on "Setup
Network Boot" at the bottom in the "Setup Networking..." section). In
this case, it's being set to "systemimager"; perhaps this is as intended.
HOwever, I tried setting it to the kernel I'm using,
"2.6.25-14.fc9.x86_64", and reimaging - with absolutely no change.
This seems like a simple problem to solve, but after checking files and
testing a bit I can't. Perhaps someone else has run into this and got
past it. I appreciate that SystemImager's site and lists would be the
place to look into this, but also expect that OSCAR users will have seen
this if it was a problem. ANY guidance would be helpful.
I've included the last few dozen lines from the log. Of possible note are
a couple of broken pipes. The rsync daemon *is* running, despite the
report in the log (and the nodes do image, at least mostly).
Thanks in advance,
Chris
[...]
>> insmod /lib/modules/2.6.25-14.fc9.x86_64/kernel/fs/fuse/fuse.ko
>> insmod
/lib/modules/2.6.25-14.fc9.x86_64/kernel/net/bluetooth/bluetooth.ko
>> insmod /lib/modules/2.6.25-14.fc9.x86_64/kernel/net/bluetooth/l2cap.ko
>> insmod
/lib/modules/2.6.25-14.fc9.x86_64/kernel/net/bluetooth/rfcomm/rfcomm.ko
>> insmod
/lib/modules/2.6.25-14.fc9.x86_64/kernel/net/bluetooth/bnep/bnep.ko
>> insmod /lib/modules/2.6.25-14.fc9.x86_64/kernel/net/bridge/bridge.ko
>> insmod
/lib/modules/2.6.25-14.fc9.x86_64/kernel/fs/exportfs/exportfs.ko
>> insmod
/lib/modules/2.6.25-14.fc9.x86_64/kernel/net/sunrpc/auth_gss/auth_rpcgss.ko
>> insmod
/lib/modules/2.6.25-14.fc9.x86_64/kernel/fs/nfs_common/nfs_acl.ko
>> insmod /lib/modules/2.6.25-14.fc9.x86_64/kernel/fs/lockd/lockd.ko
>> insmod /lib/modules/2.6.25-14.fc9.x86_64/kernel/fs/nfsd/nfsd.ko
>>> Choosing filesystem for new initrd: cpio
>>> Creating new initrd from staging dir: /tmp/.systemimager.0
>> cd /tmp/.systemimager.0 && find . ! -name "*~" | cpio -H newc --create
| gzip -9 > /etc/systemimager/boot/initrd.img
142586 blocks
>> ls -l /etc/systemimager/boot/initrd.img
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 20255928 Nov 7 16:01
/etc/systemimager/boot/initrd.img
>> Evaluating initrd size to be added in the kernel boot options
>> (e.g. /etc/systemimager/pxelinux.cfg/syslinux.cfg):
>> suggested value -> ramdisk_size=81533
cat: write error: Broken pipe
>>> Using kernel from: /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.25-14.fc9.x86_64
>> ls -l /etc/systemimager/boot/kernel
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2069432 Nov 7 16:01 /etc/systemimager/boot/kernel
WARNING: The rsync daemon was not started. You must run si_prepareclient
again, without the -n option, before you can pull this
client's image to an imageserver.
Your client has been successfully prepared. Boot kernel (copied from
this Linux distribution) and an initrd.img (generated by the
initrd_template package) can be found in /etc/systemimager/boot.
Automatically create configuration file for systemconfigurator:
>> /etc/systemconfig/systemconfig.conf
cat: write error: Broken pipe
cat: write error: Broken pipe
--> Step 6: Successfully enabled UYOK
--> Step 6: Setup network boot: ./setup_pxe -v --uyok
2008-11-7 16:1:20 [main :: Line 290] Checking arguments.
2008-11-7 16:1:20 [main :: Line 116] Restarting xinetd
Stopping xinetd: ESC[60G[ESC[0;32m OK ESC[0;39m]
Starting xinetd: ESC[60G[ESC[0;32m OK ESC[0;39m]
2008-11-7 16:1:20 [main :: Line 118] Enabling tftp
2008-11-7 16:1:20 [main :: Line 132] Creating directories.
2008-11-7 16:1:20 [main :: Line 170] Getting pxelinux.0.
2008-11-7 16:1:20 [main :: Line 175] Copying default pxelinux.cfg file
2008-11-7 16:1:20 [main :: Line 182] Updating
/tftpboot/pxelinux.cfg/default file to skip local.cfg and support
si_monitor.
2008-11-7 16:1:20 [main :: Line 201] Disabling nonexec mappings on x86_64
2008-11-7 16:1:20 [main :: Line 207] Copying SystemImager's message.txt to
/tftpboot/pxelinux.cfg
2008-11-7 16:1:20 [main :: Line 259] Updating
/tftpboot/pxelinux.cfg/default file to support UYOK ramdisk size.
2008-11-7 16:1:20 [main :: Line 265] Copying SystemImager UYOK boot kernel
and initrd.img to /tftpboot
2008-11-7 16:1:20 [main :: Line 272] Symlinking SystemImager UYOK boot
kernel and initrd.img to /tftpboot/kernel and /tftpboot/initrd.img
respectively
--> Step 6: Successfully setup network boot
tcpdump: no process killed
--> Step 6: Stopped listening to network
--> Step 6: Completed successfully
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