Lack of a response generally means that no one on the list knows the answer to your question. You could try posting to the systemimager list, there's some folks there that are very good at diagnosing bugs/odd problems with their software that don't watch this list.
On Fri, Nov 14, 2008 at 1:43 PM, Allan Menezes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Chris, > I had the same problem with setting up fc10 beta x86_64 after i svnned > the code from the branch-5.1 to my head node. > I managed to get the gui going after a lot of trouble and client oscarimage > and clients network etc but ran into the same problem you > are experiencing when imaging a node same DEFAULTBOOT error! I did not > investigate it as i did not have the time and i did post it on the user not > developer list but nobody replied. > I think it is the new systemimager or system configurator? > It fails the client install at the last moment and when i mount /a and see > /boot all the kernel files are there but trying to reboot the machine just > hangs. > I guess there are some changes made to systemimager which is responsible for > installing the client nodes after i had successfully twice installed fc9 > x86_64 when it was released some time ago. > SOMEBODY OUT THERE PLEASE HELP! > Cheers this should get their attention. > Allan Menezes > Chris Stevenson wrote: > > 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 > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge > Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great > prizes > Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world > http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ > _______________________________________________ > Oscar-users mailing list > Oscar-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/oscar-users > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge > Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great > prizes > Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world > http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ > _______________________________________________ > Oscar-users mailing list > Oscar-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/oscar-users > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ _______________________________________________ Oscar-users mailing list Oscar-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/oscar-users
