Re: select interfaces for boot/nfs mount

2014-05-23 Diskussionsfäden Thomas Lange
On Fri, 23 May 2014 16:46:22 +0200, Bernhard Glomm b.gl...@gmx.de said: But than the initrd is ... IMHO unnecessarily probing for other NICs. If you specify ip=eth0:dhcp on the kernel command line (also with PXE) then only this interface is probed by the initrd. See man

Re: fai-cd -B gives an error

2014-05-26 Diskussionsfäden Thomas Lange
On Mon, 26 May 2014 14:25:39 +0200, Werner Pommerer werner.pomme...@uni-hohenheim.de said: I would like to create a boot only ISO image which does a network installation. fai-cd -B /tmp/test.iso NFSROOT  /srv/fai/nfsroot   mounted Found dracut inside nfsroot, but

Re: setup-storage -D

2014-05-27 Diskussionsfäden Thomas Lange
On Tue, 27 May 2014 21:23:35 +0200, Thomas Neumann blacky+...@fluffbunny.de said: /usr/sbin/setup-storage -d -D sda sdb sdc sdd setup-storage is running in test-only mode disklist: sda suggested solution: parse given string as comma separated values My suggested

Re: setup-storage -D

2014-05-27 Diskussionsfäden Thomas Lange
On Tue, 27 May 2014 22:11:01 +0200, Thomas Neumann blacky+...@fluffbunny.de said: What do you think about explicitely mentioning quoting in the documentation? I just added a comment on this. Will be included in FAI 4.2. -- regards Thomas

Re: Error in setup-storage in FAI 4.1

2014-06-03 Diskussionsfäden Thomas Lange
On Mon, 26 May 2014 11:00:29 +0200, Andreas Heinlein aheinl...@gmx.com said: Use liblinux-lvm-perl 0.17-1 (from the FAI repos, apparently with Thomas' patch removed again): Can you please give more details about this. Which patch was removed? Is it removed in the Debian version or in

Re: Error in setup-storage in FAI 4.1

2014-06-03 Diskussionsfäden Thomas Lange
On Mon, 26 May 2014 12:15:45 +0200, Thomas Neumann blacky+...@fluffbunny.de said: but also the underlying Linux::LVM is pretty seriously broken. (Roland's patch does work, but I'm not sure if it's really the 'correct' fix.) IMO, we should first try to fix the problems in this

Re: After FAI reboot tasks

2014-06-03 Diskussionsfäden Thomas Lange
On Tue, 3 Jun 2014 17:13:30 -0500, Peter Keller psil...@cs.wisc.edu said: Does FAI have a means to specify a do this once type of thing when the client reboots into the installed distro? Yes, you can do this with a /etc/rc.local script that removes itself after execution. In the

Re: FAI and non debian installs

2014-06-12 Diskussionsfäden Thomas Lange
On Thu, 12 Jun 2014 14:59:18 -0500, Peter Keller psil...@cs.wisc.edu said: The manual seems to be a little sparse on how to use a debian nfsroot to install a different kind of linux distro, suppose xubuntu. I know I have to create a base.tar.gz file, but what is in it? where

Re: Ubuntu 14.04 host: kernel panic

2014-06-13 Diskussionsfäden Thomas Lange
On Thu, 12 Jun 2014 23:39:38 +0200, Robert Markula rob...@markula.org said: I'm using FAI quite a lot mainly installing Ubuntu 10.04 and Ubuntu 12.04-based servers and hosts. The FAI server itself is currently an Ubuntu 12.04-based machine. That sounds interesting. Did you ever

Re: Ubuntu 14.04 host: kernel panic

2014-06-16 Diskussionsfäden Thomas Lange
On Sat, 14 Jun 2014 23:35:55 +0200, Robert Markula rob...@markula.org said: Please fill out http://fai-project.org/questionnaire Already done that a few years ago, although the envirtonment has changed significantly since. Should I fill it out again? Yes, please. If there

Re: Fai nfsv4 nfsroot boot question

2014-06-16 Diskussionsfäden Thomas Lange
On Mon, 16 Jun 2014 12:32:47 +0200, Jan Losinski losin...@wh2.tu-dresden.de said: we have some troubles using fai and an nfsv4 nfs server. I found the debain bug #676883 that describes our problem. The solution you tell there is to switch the kernel. Which kernel do you mean?

Re: FAI and non debian installs

2014-06-17 Diskussionsfäden Thomas Lange
On Tue, 17 Jun 2014 11:07:35 -0500, Peter Keller psil...@cs.wisc.edu said: D) Specify the trusty repos in $NFSROOT/etc/apt/sources.list If I want half of a cluster to be debian wheezy, and the other half to be ubuntu14.04, how do I disambiguate the

Re: Problem booting clients in FAI 4.0.8~deb7u1

2014-06-17 Diskussionsfäden Thomas Lange
On Tue, 17 Jun 2014 17:22:12 +0200, Marc SCHAEFER alphanet-linux-...@alphanet.ch said: There used to be a fai-kernels package, but this is now suppressed according to the changelog. I tried to simply copy /boot/{vmlinuz,initrd}* to /srv/tftp/fai from a manually installed

Re: Best way to add a nfs4 mount to fstab ?

2014-06-18 Diskussionsfäden Thomas Lange
On Wed, 18 Jun 2014 16:18:54 +0200, Prunk Dump prunkd...@gmail.com said: When you say that $target is no longer needed, is this just for /etc/fstab on all the command are chrooted ? It's not needed for all ainsl calls. FAI now sets the environment variable AINSL_TARGET so that ainsl

Re: Error in setup-storage in FAI 4.1

2014-06-19 Diskussionsfäden Thomas Lange
On Wed, 18 Jun 2014 16:59:51 +0200, Thomas Neumann blacky+...@fluffbunny.de said: +sub _make_lv_devicename { + # LVM 2.02.88 or below: LV Name = /dev/vg/lv + # LVM 2.02.89 or higher: LV Name = lv, LV Path = /dev/vg/lv In Debian wheezy we already have LVM 2.02.95-8. So

Re: [schae...@alphanet.ch: Simple system-wide autoconfiguration for GNOME 3]

2014-06-19 Diskussionsfäden Thomas Lange
On Thu, 19 Jun 2014 16:39:25 +0200, Marc SCHAEFER alphanet-linux-...@alphanet.ch said: I just wrote this to debian-user, but maybe there is a standard FAI way to preconfigure system-wide GNOME3 ? Have a look at the DebianLAN project. It's a ready-to-go FAI config space which also

Re: fai-mirror and conflicting packages

2014-06-20 Diskussionsfäden Thomas Lange
On Fri, 20 Jun 2014 12:02:39 +0200, Andreas Heinlein aheinl...@gmx.com said: The most time is spent in each aptitude call while doing Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done Reading extended state information

Re: modules

2014-06-20 Diskussionsfäden Thomas Lange
On Thu, 19 Jun 2014 18:21:47 +0200, linux-service.be bvba g...@linux-service.be said: I am doing a lot of ubuntu installs with fai on different machines in schools. Today I have a problem with zotac mini pc's. Xubuntu 14.04 install very good with fai from debian wheezy, but

Re: Error in setup-storage in FAI 4.1

2014-06-20 Diskussionsfäden Thomas Lange
On Fri, 20 Jun 2014 14:29:22 +0200, Thomas Neumann blacky+...@fluffbunny.de said: Please try this patch against an unmodified 'fai-setup-storage_4.2_all.deb' and install libcapture-tiny-perl. You can also remove liblinux-lvm-perl if you want. We should move this discussion

Re: Version 4.2 backward incompatibility?

2014-06-21 Diskussionsfäden Thomas Lange
On Fri, 20 Jun 2014 23:55:36 -0300, Norman Schmidt Jr nor...@norman.com.br said: to fai-make-nfsroot and fai-mirror. After that, any ISO I generate start to boots but stops with some errors: http://i.imgur.com/oZVDPxo.png So Im guessing there is some backward

Re: Version 4.2 backward incompatibility?

2014-06-23 Diskussionsfäden Thomas Lange
On Sat, 21 Jun 2014 12:50:28 +0200, Thomas Lange la...@informatik.uni-koeln.de said: Yes, in FAI 4.2 we things in fai-cd. I guess you are using the old s/we things/we changed things/ -- regards Thomas

Re: FAI, fai-cd and multiple architectures

2014-06-27 Diskussionsfäden Thomas Lange
On Thu, 26 Jun 2014 11:53:46 +0200, Andreas Heinlein aheinl...@gmx.com said: one more question: can someone tell me about the status of support for multiple architectures in FAI? Your FAI install server can support i386 and amd64 architectures by using two different nfsroots.

Re: Version 4.2 backward incompatibility?

2014-06-30 Diskussionsfäden Thomas Lange
On Mon, 30 Jun 2014 17:47:59 -0300, Norman Schmidt Jr nor...@norman.com.br said: This is odd, because I have FAI_CONFIG_SRC=file:///var/lib/fai/config in /etc/fai/fai.conf, but not on /etc/fai/grub.cfg I checked grub.cfg from v4.2 and it does not have this config line too.

Re: logging output for fai-softupdate

2014-07-02 Diskussionsfäden Thomas Lange
On Wed, 02 Jul 2014 10:19:47 -0500, John G. Heim jh...@math.wisc.edu said: If I have a script run daily by fai-softupdate, how do I get it to log output? For example, I have status messages that it display via the bash echo command. But these do not get displayed when the

Re: dist-upgrade fai softupdate

2014-07-03 Diskussionsfäden Thomas Lange
On Wed, 02 Jul 2014 11:42:30 -0500, John G. Heim jh...@math.wisc.edu said: Is it redundant to do a apt-get dist-upgrade as part of a fai softupdate? fai softupdates calls task_updatebase which does aptitude full-upgrade which is the same as dist-upgrade. -- regards Thomas

Re: fai repository task messes up /etc/apt/sources.list.d

2014-07-03 Diskussionsfäden Thomas Lange
On Wed, 02 Jul 2014 14:14:07 -0500, John G. Heim jh...@math.wisc.edu said: I keep getting pre_fcopy files in the /etc/apt/sources.list.d directory on machines after I run a fai softupdate. Yep, there we do a fcopy /etc/apt without the option -B. I've fixed this now, and hope this

Re: console-tools and console-common packages

2014-07-08 Diskussionsfäden Thomas Lange
On Tue, 08 Jul 2014 23:13:57 +0900, Jeong Han Lee jh...@ibs.re.kr said: Does anybody have some troubles with console-tools and console-common in NFSROOT? In FAI 4.2 we use those packages in /etc/fai/NFSROOT: console-common kbd -- regards Thomas

Re: console-tools and console-common packages

2014-07-08 Diskussionsfäden Thomas Lange
On Tue, 08 Jul 2014 23:37:32 +0900, Jeong Han Lee jh...@ibs.re.kr said: What I understand from your extremely quick reply is there is no trouble at all. Is it correct? Yes. If you are OK, I can send my installation log to your email. With that log, you may understand

Re: packages avail during install

2014-07-08 Diskussionsfäden Thomas Lange
On Tue, 8 Jul 2014 16:41:14 +0200, Holger Parplies w...@parplies.de said: Hi, Thomas Neumann wrote on 2014-07-08 09:36:55 +0200 [Re: packages avail during install]: On Monday 07 July 2014 17:42:58 Peter Keller wrote: There's no need to completely rebuild the nfsroot. I

Re: packages avail during install

2014-07-08 Diskussionsfäden Thomas Lange
On Tue, 8 Jul 2014 10:15:09 -0500, Peter Keller psil...@cs.wisc.edu said: Please, do not cite all old mails if it's not necessary. D) How do I manage an nfsroot effectively? I shouldn't make changes to it so I can regenerate it easily, but I have to, so what's the best way

FAI 4.2.1, LVM fixes included

2014-07-09 Diskussionsfäden Thomas Lange
FAI 4.2.1 is now released. It includes several LVM related fixes in setup-storage. Please keep in mind that you should use liblinux-lvm-perl version 0.17-2 or newer to get all fixes. This version is included in the package repository at fai-project.org. -- regards Thomas

Re: packages avail during install

2014-07-10 Diskussionsfäden Thomas Lange
On Thu, 10 Jul 2014 09:41:23 -0500, Peter Keller psil...@cs.wisc.edu said: On Tue, Jul 08, 2014 at 05:22:36PM +0200, Thomas Lange wrote: the client machine after it finishes installing Yes and no. You can use the fai-monitor for that or the client logs into the install

Re: Can't start from RAM disk image

2014-07-16 Diskussionsfäden Thomas Lange
On Wed, 16 Jul 2014 12:20:40 +0200, Dr. Daniel Löb dan...@sardisverlag.de said: When I boot the target machine after that, it _should_ start fai but then drop into a root@none prompt. What it instead does is to show these two messages: Received 001a Kbyte, sorted 001a Kbyte,

Re: Can't start from RAM disk image

2014-07-16 Diskussionsfäden Thomas Lange
On Wed, 16 Jul 2014 20:48:01 +0200, Dr. Daniel Löb dan...@sardisverlag.de said: http://etherboot.org/wiki/removable I know this project. But gpxe (which is used by etherboot.org) is a dead project. If you need a more up-to-date version have a look at ipxe.org. It's the the fork of gpxe

Re: nfsroot doesn't build with fai-project.org deb repository

2014-07-17 Diskussionsfäden Thomas Lange
On Thu, 17 Jul 2014 09:56:02 -0700, Jeff Swartzman jswartz...@edgecast.com said: I'm having problems building an nfsroot when the http://fai-project.org/download deb repository is added to the sources.list for the nfsroot.  Other than this change, my configurations are all default

Re: FAI - server logging + FAI Ubuntu Trusty

2014-07-21 Diskussionsfäden Thomas Lange
On Tue, 08 Jul 2014 16:25:51 +0200, René Bleisch accou...@climate.unibe.ch said: I had quite some problems to solve: - I had to chmod /srv/tftp/fai_ubuntu/initrd... from -rw--- to -rw-r--r-- (seems to be a known problem) I;m windering why you need this. in fai-make-nfsroot the

Re: fai-setup error

2014-07-25 Diskussionsfäden Thomas Lange
On Fri, 25 Jul 2014 15:23:58 +0200 (CEST), Stefano Vogliotti stvog...@alice.it said: E: Failed getting release file http://http.debian.net/debian/dists/wheezy/Release In the log file no suggestion. Try another mirror. Maybe the mirror you are redirected to is currently broken. --

FAI 4.2.2 available

2014-07-26 Diskussionsfäden Thomas Lange
The new version FAI 4.2.2 fixes another LVM issues and can now install CentOS 7 using the simple examples of the config space. The ssh daemon can now be started earlier, if you specify the FAI_FLAGS on the kernel command line. The new packages are available from the FAI project package

Re: dracut warning: could not boot

2014-07-29 Diskussionsfäden Thomas Lange
On Tue, 29 Jul 2014 13:24:42 -0500, Peter Keller psil...@cs.wisc.edu said: Basically, I need to add some more modules into the initrd in order for a USB dongle to be (I hope) properly set up after the PXE boot, but I'm not sure how to do that in the new dracut world order. man

Re: Updated installation instructions for Ubuntu

2014-09-22 Diskussionsfäden Thomas Lange
On Fri, 19 Sep 2014 11:56:43 +0200, Robert Markula rob...@markula.org said: I would like to update the Wiki page on Ubuntu [1] with instructions on how to install and run FAI 4.2.4 on Ubuntu 14.04 using a Ubuntu 14.04 NFSroot and installing Ubuntu 14.04 on the clients.

Re: dracut warning: could not boot

2014-09-26 Diskussionsfäden Thomas Lange
On Tue, 29 Jul 2014 16:20:22 -0500, Peter Keller psil...@cs.wisc.edu said: /etc/dracut.conf.d/whatever.conf file. Then, how do I run dracut such that it reproduces the initrd.img.blah in the /boot chroot which chroot /srv/fai/nfsroot dpkg-reconfigure dracut -- regards Thomas

Re: Editing partition table msdos or gpt

2014-10-09 Diskussionsfäden Thomas Lange
On Tue, 7 Oct 2014 12:58:10 -0300, Ro Siade eij...@gmail.com said: Im using qlustar OS installer who use fai project. Actually qlustar use msdos and automatic partitions. How can edit fai to allow me to use GPT instead od msdos partition table type? Here's an example: disk_config disk1

Re: User fai asks for a pw

2014-10-09 Diskussionsfäden Thomas Lange
On Thu, 09 Oct 2014 19:31:25 +0200, werner.pomme...@uni-hohenheim.de said: at the end of an installation - when the logs are copied to the install-server - fai@ asks for a password. Why? Normally fai-setup does everything for you. But you can do following things:

Re: FAI Shellshock

2014-10-17 Diskussionsfäden Thomas Lange
On Fri, 17 Oct 2014 12:55:23 -0500, Peter Keller psil...@cs.wisc.edu said: But when I enter the chroot, I see: + chroot /srv/wheezy-i386-chroot /bin/bash -x /bin/bash: BASH_FUNC_task_softupdate(): line 0: syntax error near unexpected token `)' /bin/bash:

FAI 4.3 released, btrfs support added

2014-10-27 Diskussionsfäden Thomas Lange
Thanks to the work of Kerim Gueney, the new release of FAI 4.3 now has support for btrfs in the FAI partitioning tool setup-storage. Here's a simple example of the configuration file for disk_config/. disk_config disk1 primary /boot 500 ext4 rw primary - 2048 - - disk_config disk2 primary -

Re: CENTOS with LVM layout

2014-11-06 Diskussionsfäden Thomas Lange
On Thu, 6 Nov 2014 15:19:47 +0200, Antanas Masevicius antanas.masevic...@gmail.com said: lately i tried installing CENTOS 6 and 7 with LVM partitions: but after successful installation, rebooting stops at: dracut-initqueue: Warning: /dev/mapper/vg1-root_ does not exists Please

Re: CENTOS with LVM layout

2014-11-07 Diskussionsfäden Thomas Lange
On Fri, 7 Nov 2014 09:43:57 +0200, Antanas Masevicius antanas.masevic...@gmail.com said: one more note. After boot drops to dracut console i don't event see lvm command available. Is it some packaging issue? I made my  CENTOS7_64.tar.xz with mk-basefile If packages are missing, you

Re: CENTOS with LVM layout

2014-11-07 Diskussionsfäden Thomas Lange
On Fri, 7 Nov 2014 12:04:51 +0200, Antanas Masevicius antanas.masevic...@gmail.com said: thanks for the tip. Added base to to yumgroup. Still, the same result. lvm command still not available. Maybe has something to do with lvm not being loaded into ram disk? Not sure how it works.

Re: CENTOS with LVM layout

2014-11-07 Diskussionsfäden Thomas Lange
On Fri, 7 Nov 2014 14:53:36 +0200, Antanas Masevicius antanas.masevic...@gmail.com said: it looks like there is no lvm module in that initramfs file.  That not good. shell.log:  /run/lvm/lvmetad.socket: connect failed: No such file or directory shell.log:  WARNING: Failed to

Re: FAI initramfs-tools breaks console-setup

2014-11-13 Diskussionsfäden Thomas Lange
On Thu, 13 Nov 2014 09:36:51 +0100, Robert Markula rob...@markula.org said: Hello, have there been changes to initramfs-tools in the FAI wheezy repositories lately? Yes. I put a newer version into the fai-project.org repository. because we hab problems when using the 3.16 bpo

Re: FAI initramfs-tools breaks console-setup

2014-11-13 Diskussionsfäden Thomas Lange
On Thu, 13 Nov 2014 21:38:48 +0100, Robert Markula rob...@markula.org said: Is the breakage of initramfs-tools something that can/will be fixed with a later release? Is there an archive of old FAI releases somewhere that one can use in the meantime? This is not the

Re: Proxy configuration (apt) during client installation

2014-11-16 Diskussionsfäden Thomas Lange
On Sun, 16 Nov 2014 13:48:00 +0100, Christian Meyer c2h...@web.de said: is it possible to configure an apt proxy during client installation? Hi Christian, yes this is possible. If you install a new machine (no matter if it becomes the server or a client) a hook is called:

Re: [fai] use // operator instead of 'defined .. and' construct (802d5bc)

2014-11-16 Diskussionsfäden Thomas Lange
On Fri, 14 Nov 2014 11:51:11 -0800, Mikhail Lesin notificati...@github.com said: At least reinstall flag now operates incorrectly, // operator returns contents of $flag_initial, which is also 1 instead of 0 (it was old behavior) Ooop, this was really a bad change. I fixed this in

Re: fai-mirror, fai-cd and backports

2014-11-18 Diskussionsfäden Thomas Lange
On Tue, 18 Nov 2014 09:30:01 +0100, Andreas Heinlein aheinl...@gmx.com said: If I add 'hplip/precise-backports' to the packages file, this works for the normal installation, but it does not for the CDs. The reason is that fai-mirror creates a new repository named 'cskoeln', so

FAI 4.3.1 available

2014-11-19 Diskussionsfäden Thomas Lange
The new FAI version 4.3.1 is now available for jessie in the package repository of fai-project.org. It includes some bug fixes, of which #769923 is most important. This bugs prevents setup-storage from working, if you use preserve_reinstall in disk_config and set flag_initial=1. This bug was

FAI 4.3.1+wheezy1 released

2014-11-21 Diskussionsfäden Thomas Lange
I've created FAI version 4.3.1+wheezy1, which is the same as 4.3.1 except that not jessie but wheezy is the default distribution. It's available now if you use this line in your sources.lists files: deb http://fai-project.org/download wheezy koeln -- regards Thomas

Re: Error message after installing via fai-cd before reboot with UBUNTU

2014-12-01 Diskussionsfäden Thomas Lange
On Mon, 1 Dec 2014 10:18:23 +, Fabian Hartmann fabian.hartm...@cloudguard.ch said: I’m trying to setup a Ubuntu Linux with fai-cd. Which FAI and which Ubuntu version are you using? -- regards Thomas

Re: Error message after installing via fai-cd before reboot with UBUNTU

2014-12-01 Diskussionsfäden Thomas Lange
On Mon, 1 Dec 2014 10:18:23 +, Fabian Hartmann fabian.hartm...@cloudguard.ch said: The installation process is completed, but I get an error from mv : inter-device move failed : /tmp/rebootCD to /target /tmp/rebootCD : unable to remove target : read-only file system After

Re: AW: Error message after installing via fai-cd before reboot with UBUNTU

2014-12-02 Diskussionsfäden Thomas Lange
On Tue, 2 Dec 2014 07:59:47 +, Fabian Hartmann fabian.hartm...@cloudguard.ch said: And I remember to not have this problem in the beginning while working with an example disk_config from FAIBASE with a /tmp partition... So that could probably be causing the problem! Is it

Re: AW: AW: Error message after installing via fai-cd before reboot with UBUNTU

2014-12-03 Diskussionsfäden Thomas Lange
On Wed, 3 Dec 2014 07:53:51 +, Fabian Hartmann fabian.hartm...@cloudguard.ch said: Then I wanted to have a look at another shell, but there are only two other consoles with messages from dmesg, no shell where I could actually do something on the live-system. How can I configure

FAI talk at linux.conf.au Systems Administration Miniconf

2014-12-10 Diskussionsfäden Thomas Lange
Hi folks, I will give a talk about FAI at the Systems Administration Miniconf which is held as part of linux.conf.au. The conference takes place in Auckland, NZ and last from 12th to 16th january 2015. If you are near by, I would be happy to meet you at the conference. Here's the schedule of this

Re: No atapi cdrom found

2014-12-22 Diskussionsfäden Thomas Lange
On Mon, 22 Dec 2014 14:51:48 +0100, Thierry Ranson thierry.ran...@gmail.com said: I'm having big problems on installing an old fai with kernel 2.6.17. On new hardware. The cdrom boots OK but the image doesn't want to detect the cdrom to get all the data for install. no atapi cdrom

Re: No atapi cdrom found

2014-12-22 Diskussionsfäden Thomas Lange
On Mon, 22 Dec 2014 15:30:23 +0100, Thierry Ranson thierry.ran...@gmail.com said: The thing is I've already installed the same kernel with the same cdrom (ide cdrom I just add when I need to since I don't need it after install) . The mother board was different though... Different mother

Re: No atapi cdrom found

2014-12-23 Diskussionsfäden Thomas Lange
On Tue, 23 Dec 2014 09:37:22 +0100, Thierry Ranson thierry.ran...@gmail.com said: to do this. If I could just create a new FAI CD it would be just great. For creating a FAI CD you have to use the commands fai-mirror and fai-cd. They both have man pages. -- regards Thomas

Re: Debian fai server, sles11sp3 nodes

2014-12-24 Diskussionsfäden Thomas Lange
On Wed, 24 Dec 2014 01:47:00 +0100, Salva . paulvar...@gmail.com said: We have used FAI 4.x in the recent past with Debian server and nodes with no big issues. Now we are trying to deploy it on a wheezy server but we need to deploy SLES11 SP3 on the nodes. First you have to create

Re: Debian fai server, sles11sp3 nodes

2015-01-02 Diskussionsfäden Thomas Lange
On Wed, 24 Dec 2014 14:46:51 +0100, Salva . paulvar...@gmail.com said: Thanks a lot for your quick reply. If we write new documentation about the process we will send it to you in case you want to add it to the wiki... Hi Salva, you can get a wiki account to add this by yourself if you

Re: [Patch] Make using SVN as config source more robust

2015-02-04 Diskussionsfäden Thomas Lange
On Thu, 2015-01-15 at 16:37 +0100, Moritz Struebe wrote: here's a little patch that makes using svn for the config more robust. On Thu, 15 Jan 2015 18:19:33 +0200, Toomas Tamm tt-...@kky.ttu.ee said: I would make running svn clean an option for those who really need it, and

Re: Virtual Machine

2015-02-05 Diskussionsfäden Thomas Lange
On Tue, 20 Jan 2015 15:05:25 +0100, Ezio Sella e.se...@tdemacno.it said: I am trying to install your faicd64-4.3.1+wheezy1.img on a VM Virtualbox. i insert login and password as descibed on the grub menu but after that i get just a blank screen. It looks like the kernel

Re: crossing the distributions

2015-02-05 Diskussionsfäden Thomas Lange
2) I focus on the BASH_FUNC error.  I find mail list conversation in October 2014 and bug #764313 that seem related.  On Oct 20 the bug was closed when considering the Debian wheezy environment Yes, this bug is closed in Debian Wheezy. I don't know what Ubuntu is doing. It's more a

Re: fai-make-nfsroot

2015-03-20 Diskussionsfäden Thomas Lange
On Fri, 20 Mar 2015 14:06:05 +0100, Werner Pommerer werner.pomme...@uni-hohenheim.de said: after a new fai version on the the fai-server is installed, what is the correct way, the install-clients will use this new version. I got troubles after fai-make-nfsroot –f. The client

Re: Variable DOMAIN in get-boot-info ignored in case of IP as kernel parameter

2015-03-24 Diskussionsfäden Thomas Lange
On Mon, 23 Mar 2015 12:22:44 +0100, steven.w...@t-online.de steven.w...@t-online.de said: And at the end of the script $bootlog is getting checked for DOMAIN= which would never be true and causes an localdomain. I'm not sure about this - bug or not? Or is there another reason at all

Re: fai-make-nfsroot

2015-03-25 Diskussionsfäden Thomas Lange
On Wed, 25 Mar 2015 13:54:27 +0100, werner.pomme...@uni-hohenheim.de said: Hello, root@btwp3:/tmpfai-make-nfsroot -fv Using configuration files from /etc/fai Creating FAI nfsroot in /srv/fai/nfsroot mv: cannot move `/srv/fai/nfsroot' to

Re: Option to set Ports for NFS mount

2015-03-30 Diskussionsfäden Thomas Lange
On Mon, 30 Mar 2015 06:30:15 +, Schulz, Reiner r.sch...@dvz-mv.de said: in our enviroment we must to use a ssh tunnelt to connect to fai clients. So we have to use reverse ssh tunnel for all connections from client to server (nfs, save-log, etc) Up to now we patch the fai

Re: AW: Option to set Ports for NFS mount

2015-03-30 Diskussionsfäden Thomas Lange
On Mon, 30 Mar 2015 10:41:48 +, Schulz, Reiner r.sch...@dvz-mv.de said: We use fai 3.4.8 for now and patch /usr/sbin/fai at line export romountopt to export romountopt=-t nfs4 -o port=20549,soft,async,noatime,nolock,ro,actimeo=1800 It should be possible to redefine the

Re: AW: fai-make-nfsroot

2015-03-26 Diskussionsfäden Thomas Lange
On Thu, 26 Mar 2015 16:36:23 +0100, werner.pomme...@uni-hohenheim.de said: http://paste.debian.net/hidden/a7354e4b You are mixing jessie and wheezy packages. When calling debootstrap (line 4) you are using jessie, but later you are using packages from wheezy. This will cause problems.

FAI 4.3.2, new CD image

2015-03-27 Diskussionsfäden Thomas Lange
A week ago I released a new version of FAI. 4.3.2 includes some bug fixes. It also adds a new variable $FAI_MONITOR_PORT which can be used for setting the port number to which the clients send its messages for the FAI monitor daemon. I just added the wheezy version of FAI 4.3.2 (4.3.2+wheezy1) to

Re: Problem with empty VG

2015-02-26 Diskussionsfäden Thomas Lange
On Tue, 3 Feb 2015 22:24:07 + (UTC), C. V. list-u...@backenhoernchen.de said: I noticed due to my own configuration with FAI that this error still exists. Do you plan to fix it in the near future? I am using fai version 4.0.8~deb7u1 It would be nice, if you could check it with

Re: AW: fai-make-nfsroot

2015-03-26 Diskussionsfäden Thomas Lange
On Thu, 26 Mar 2015 14:13:20 +0100, Werner Pommerer werner.pomme...@uni-hohenheim.de said: There is no e.g. /srv/fai/nfsroot/usr/sbin/fai nfsroot seems not to be complete. Do you need the logfile from fai-make-nfsroot -v ? Yes, please put it on paste.debian.net. You may want to

Re: AW: fai-make-nfsroot

2015-03-26 Diskussionsfäden Thomas Lange
On Thu, 26 Mar 2015 15:49:20 +0100, werner.pomme...@uni-hohenheim.de said: I put the log on paste.debian.net Which URL? -- regards Thomas

Re: FAI and APT packages

2015-04-14 Diskussionsfäden Thomas Lange
On Tue, 14 Apr 2015 12:08:48 +0100, Rui Teixeira ruiteixeir...@gmail.com said: There's two questions here: 1. Calling fai-mirror as a root is wrong or raises any problem? I'm executing it as root. It's not wrong, but I would never call command as root if it's not strictly necessary.

Re: FAI and APT packages

2015-04-14 Diskussionsfäden Thomas Lange
On Thu, 9 Apr 2015 23:26:48 +0100, Rui Teixeira ruiteixeir...@gmail.com said: I'm here to ask if someone can explain to me how the freaking apt packages works with FAI. I have simple repositories on my /etc/apt/ and /etc/fai/apt/ sources.list. I've added the keys to my system and

Re: FAI 4.3.2: Fehler bei setup-storage 1.7

2015-05-04 Diskussionsfäden Thomas Lange
On Mon, 04 May 2015 14:53:07 +0200, looper loo...@gmx.li said: Executing: wipefs -a /dev/sda1 Executing: wipefs -a /dev/sda5 Executing: parted -s /dev/sda mklabel msdos Executing: parted -s /dev/sda mkpart primary ext3 1048576B 525336575B Executing: parted -s /dev/sda

Re: FAI 4.3.2: Fehler bei setup-storage 1.7

2015-05-01 Diskussionsfäden Thomas Lange
On Fri, 01 May 2015 07:43:52 +0200, looper loo...@gmx.li said: disk_config disk1 disklabel:msdos bootable:1 fstabkey:uuid primary/boot 500 ext3rw logicalswap 2G swapsw logical/var/log 4G ext4rw,noatime,nodev logical/

Re: ERROR 256 256 in fai.log

2015-04-30 Diskussionsfäden Thomas Lange
On Thu, 30 Apr 2015 15:50:23 +0200, Werner Pommerer werner.pomme...@uni-hohenheim.de said: in the past it worked, but now I get following error in fai.log. I didn’t change anything. ERROR: 256 256 ERROR: chroot /target yum -y install authconfig

Re: FAI 4.3.2: Fehler bei setup-storage 1.7

2015-04-30 Diskussionsfäden Thomas Lange
On Thu, 30 Apr 2015 16:53:03 +0200, looper loo...@gmx.li said: Hallo, seit der Umstellung von Debian Wheezy auf Jessie schlägt die Installation mit FAI fehl. Hier die Daten aus dem FAI-Client: Kannst du auch noch die disk_config zeigen. -- regards Thomas

Re: FAI - jessie / GDM3

2015-05-07 Diskussionsfäden Thomas Lange
On Tue, 05 May 2015 15:33:20 +0200, René Bleisch accou...@climate.unibe.ch said: = Did anyone stumble over other maybe important jessie-related issues? Currently FAI has one major problem when doing a reinstallation. If setup-storage likes to resize a partition, this fails, since parted 3

Re: AW: Option to set Ports for NFS mount

2015-05-07 Diskussionsfäden Thomas Lange
On Mon, 13 Apr 2015 14:54:36 +, Schulz, Reiner r.sch...@dvz-mv.de said: May be there is another way: scp and ssh have an option -F to use another config file, if you could extent fai-savelog to use something like -F $MYSSHCONFIGFILEWITHSPECIALOPTION if this variable is set to an

Re: Cannot get FAI to build jessie

2015-05-11 Diskussionsfäden Thomas Lange
On Mon, 11 May 2015 08:35:56 +0200, Moritz Struebe moritz.stru...@cs.fau.de said: Yea, we have had the same problem with vivid. You need to install it in in a seperate apt-run. Aptitude's conflict resolution sucks! We I have put this in my /etc/fai/NFSROOT, which makes aptitude

Re: Packagename depends on uname -r

2015-05-10 Diskussionsfäden Thomas Lange
On Fri, 8 May 2015 15:47:24 +0200, Werner Pommerer werner.pomme...@uni-hohenheim.de said: I would like to install a package (SLC6), which depends on ‘uname –r’. How do I do this? Just use it in a package_config file, for e.g. package-`uname -r` Since this package name will be

Re: Cannot get FAI to build jessie

2015-05-11 Diskussionsfäden Thomas Lange
On Mon, 11 May 2015 09:29:07 +0200, q...@vienna.at said: sysvinit-core kollidiert mit systemd-sysv und umgekehrt Ja, genau. Deshalb habe ich jetzt auch explizit systemd-sysv mit einem - hinzugefuegt, damit das ohne Probleme deinstalliert wird. So soll die Zeile in /etc/fai/NFSROOT

Re: locales in NFSROOT

2015-05-11 Diskussionsfäden Thomas Lange
On Sun, 10 May 2015 00:32:19 +0200, Christian Meyer c2h...@web.de said: while chroot /srv/fai/nfsroot/live/filesystem.dir dpkg-reconfigure -fnoninteractive locales fails. Even with the mentioned debconf-communicate lines executed before. Mmm, I had the same problem. Maybe a

Re: fai-mirror, fai-cd and backports

2015-05-04 Diskussionsfäden Thomas Lange
On Tue, 18 Nov 2014 09:30:01 +0100, Andreas Heinlein aheinl...@gmx.com said: If I add 'hplip/precise-backports' to the packages file, this works for the normal installation, but it does not for the CDs. The reason is that fai-mirror creates a new repository named 'cskoeln', so

Re: FAI 4.3.2: Fehler bei setup-storage 1.7

2015-05-03 Diskussionsfäden Thomas Lange
On Sun, 03 May 2015 19:33:45 +0200, looper loo...@gmx.li said: Command had non-zero exit code Error in task partition. Code: 710 Kannst du das mal mit debug ausfuehren? Du kannst das wie folgt auf dem Client aufrufen: setup-storage -X -d -f /var/lib/fai/config/disk_config/BASIS

Re: Cannot get FAI to build jessie

2015-05-09 Diskussionsfäden Thomas Lange
On Sat, 09 May 2015 06:24:45 -0700, fai1...@macrotex.net said: We first use fai-make-nfsroot. This (mostly) seems to work, but we get some errors (see below). We then pxeboot this nsfroot to attempt to build a jessie system and get errors related to systemd and NSF and

Re: Cannot get FAI to build jessie

2015-05-09 Diskussionsfäden Thomas Lange
Oops! The nfsroot I said in my last email is a wheezy nfsroot including a 3.16 bpo kernel. But I can build you a generic jessie nfsroot tomorrow if you need it. -- regards Thomas

Re: Cannot get FAI to build jessie

2015-05-10 Diskussionsfäden Thomas Lange
On Sun, 10 May 2015 08:55:49 -0700, fai1...@macrotex.net said: The main fai-make-nfsroot log: http://paste.debian.net/174450 I found the problem. You do not install the package sysvinit-core into the NFSROOT. Please add sysvinit-core to /etc/fai/NFSROOT and rebuild the nfsroot. This should

Re: Cannot get FAI to build jessie

2015-05-12 Diskussionsfäden Thomas Lange
On Tue, 12 May 2015 19:43:34 +0200, Sven Schumacher schumac...@tfd.uni-hannover.de said: fai uses /etc/init.d/rcS for starting the installation. Probably this has to be changed for jessie with systemd to be a systemd-job with lowest priority and dependcy of network... Yes, this

Re: fai jessie ubuntu vivid

2015-05-15 Diskussionsfäden Thomas Lange
On Fri, 15 May 2015 09:08:10 +0200, linux service g...@linux-service.be said: If you are installing Vivid you need to go back to upstart, as systemd is currently not supported by FAI. Add a file with the following content to /etc/fai/nfsroot-hooks/ and make it executable: In

Re: AW: Packagename depends on uname -r

2015-05-15 Diskussionsfäden Thomas Lange
On Fri, 15 May 2015 14:16:39 +0200, Werner Pommerer werner.pomme...@uni-hohenheim.de said: But fai.log says: install_packages: executing chroot /target yum -y install kernel-module-openafs-`uname -r` ... No package kernel-module-openafs-3.2.0-4-amd64 available.

Re: FAI 4.3.2: Fehler bei setup-storage 1.7

2015-05-18 Diskussionsfäden Thomas Lange
On Thu, 07 May 2015 21:18:48 +0200, looper loo...@gmx.li said: root@fai:~# parted -s /dev/sda mkpart logical linux-swap 525337600B 2672821247B Warning: The resulting partition is not properly aligned for best

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