Re: Ubuntu 7.10 - live/filesystem.dir and read only filesystem
Michael Tautschnig a écrit : [...] Maybe for you too http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=444079 applies - please try to add nfs-common to the NFSROOT file (as shown in the patch attached to the bug report). Best, Michael nfs-common already is in nfs root. and it doesn't work... I try to understand one thing: - When a fai client boots up, he try to mount the nfsroot in read only. all the data is written somewhere else using tmpfs. Is that right ? If this is true, it may be a problem with tmpfs wich is not doing is job (or not present, or not configured...) ? -- Jerome Castang Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: +33(0)5 40 00 36 92
Re: Ubuntu 7.10 - live/filesystem.dir and read only filesystem
Michael Tautschnig a écrit : There are parts that need to be written on every boot-up, just temporary things. Prior to live-initramfs this was solved by mounting parts of the file system as tmpfs. Now live-initramfs takes care of everything. You definitely need to debug the mount problem, possibly by checking the logs on the server. HTH, Michael Taking a look at this old message, i found this: Nov 9 10:00:39 procyon mountd[9249]: authenticated mount request from testfai.labri.fr:1014 for /soft/fai/nfsroot (/soft/fai/nfsroot) Nov 9 10:00:39 mountd[9249]: refused unmount request from for /root (/): not exported Nov 9 10:00:40 mountd[9249]: authenticated mount request from :799 for /soft/fai/nfsroot (/soft/fai/nfsroot) Nov 9 10:00:40 mountd[9249]: refused unmount request from x for /root (/): not exported Nov 9 10:00:41 mountd[9249]: authenticated mount request from :840 for /soft/fai/nfsroot (/soft/fai/nfsroot) Nov 9 10:00:41 mountd[9249]: refused unmount request from xxx.xxx.fr for /root (/): not exported In /var/log/daemon I don't really understand what's going on. Maybe FAI tries to umount an nfs directory that does not exists ? (here /root) -- Jerome Castang Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: +33(0)5 40 00 36 92
Re: Ubuntu 7.10 - live/filesystem.dir and read only filesystem
Michael Tautschnig a écrit : [...] -- Nov 9 09:46:32 procyon kernel: [ 1484.548824] nfsd: last server has exited Nov 9 09:46:32 procyon kernel: [ 1484.548827] nfsd: unexporting all filesystems Nov 9 09:46:32 procyon kernel: [ 1484.549856] RPC: failed to contact local rpcbind server (errno 5). Nov 9 09:46:33 procyon kernel: [ 1485.599824] NFSD: Using /var/lib/nfs/v4recovery as the NFSv4 state recovery directory Nov 9 09:46:33 procyon kernel: [ 1485.599837] NFSD: starting 90-second grace period -- But rpcinfo -p says that rpc is running AFAIK this is just fine, for whatever reason it comes up, but I think things should work nevertheless. So -- what's your current status? What does work, what does not? Best, Michael A this time I get a PXE boot on kernel + initrd (2.6.22-14, but it does the same with olders). Then if I define /srv/fai/nfsroot as NFSROOT it goes on an endless loop reporting: Nov 9 10:00:41 mountd[9249]: authenticated mount request from :840 for /soft/fai/nfsroot (/soft/fai/nfsroot) Nov 9 10:00:41 mountd[9249]: refused unmount request from xxx.xxx.fr for /root (/): not exported In /var/log/daemon In a second way if I define /srv/fai/nfsroot/live/filesystem.dir as NFSROOT (I now this is wrong, but for testing), there is no endless loop but FAI does not work saying that the filesystem is read only. -- Jerome Castang Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: +33(0)5 40 00 36 92
Re: Ubuntu 7.10 - live/filesystem.dir and read only filesystem
[...] Nov 9 10:00:39 procyon mountd[9249]: authenticated mount request from testfai.labri.fr:1014 for /soft/fai/nfsroot (/soft/fai/nfsroot) Nov 9 10:00:39 mountd[9249]: refused unmount request from for /root (/): not exported Nov 9 10:00:40 mountd[9249]: authenticated mount request from :799 for /soft/fai/nfsroot (/soft/fai/nfsroot) Nov 9 10:00:40 mountd[9249]: refused unmount request from x for /root (/): not exported Nov 9 10:00:41 mountd[9249]: authenticated mount request from :840 for /soft/fai/nfsroot (/soft/fai/nfsroot) Nov 9 10:00:41 mountd[9249]: refused unmount request from xxx.xxx.fr for /root (/): not exported In /var/log/daemon I don't really understand what's going on. Maybe FAI tries to umount an nfs directory that does not exists ? (here /root) I have no idea who is trying to unmount something here (note that you replaced parts by very different x-combinations). But I think FAI will never try to unmount anything just after it mounted the root fs. It's all pretty strange... Sorry, no idea so far... Michael pgpqs4TC70WIU.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Ubuntu 7.10 - live/filesystem.dir and read only filesystem
[...] Maybe for you too http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=444079 applies - please try to add nfs-common to the NFSROOT file (as shown in the patch attached to the bug report). Best, Michael pgpAazMBXIm56.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Ubuntu 7.10 - live/filesystem.dir and read only filesystem
On Thu, 08 Nov 2007 16:51:15 +0100, Castang Jerome [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: (the live-initramfs package is installed on the server) You need live-initramfs only inside the nfsroot, not on the server itself. -- regards Thomas
Re: Ubuntu 7.10 - live/filesystem.dir and read only filesystem
Michael Tautschnig a écrit : [...] There is no package named fai-kernels on ubuntu 7.10 I use vmlinuz-2.6.22-14-generic and initrd.img-2.6.22-14-generic to boot. So this initrd image must not include live tools Wich kernel and ramfs must be used ? fai-kernels is deprecated, on Debian we use standard kernels. For Ubuntu you might want to have a look at https://code.launchpad.net/~fai/+archive HTH, Michael The endless loop when trying to mount nfs root is due to the fact that initrd is not searching for a live directory in NFSROOT. So, it tells me that there is no live option in curent ubuntu initrd. (the live-initramfs package is installed on the server) Changing path in pxe boot options to NFSROOT/live/filesystem.dir works but only in ro. So it might be due tmpfs (not inclued ?) in the initrd image... Has anyone experience this type of error with ubuntu initrd ? -- Jerome Castang Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: +33(0)5 40 00 36 92
Re: Ubuntu 7.10 - live/filesystem.dir and read only filesystem
Michael Tautschnig a écrit : [...] There is no package named fai-kernels on ubuntu 7.10 I use vmlinuz-2.6.22-14-generic and initrd.img-2.6.22-14-generic to boot. So this initrd image must not include live tools Wich kernel and ramfs must be used ? fai-kernels is deprecated, on Debian we use standard kernels. For Ubuntu you might want to have a look at https://code.launchpad.net/~fai/+archive HTH, Michael Using the package live-initramfs does nothing. It seems that ubuntu initramfs does not include live ramfs and tmpfs. -- Jerome Castang Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: +33(0)5 40 00 36 92
