Re: No /tmp/fai/, /tmp not writable
That did it. In the past I used ch-boot to generate the pxe config files and then edited them manually. I thought I had to have anboth root and nfsroot parameters. I didn't understand the difference. Still don't actually. But I see that the root parameter is correct the way ch-boot generates it if you pass it the correct parameters. So I kind of had to undo the edits I had made to the pxe boot file for my test machine. It wasn't quite right originally the way ch-boot generated it. But I think I can probably get it to do that if I pass it the right parms. On 02/12/2018 11:32 AM, Thomas Lange wrote: On Mon, 12 Feb 2018 11:20:12 -0600, John G Heim said: > upunable to create a /tmp/fai/fai.log. So I can't really tell where the That's the usual problem when the read-only nfsroot is not writeable. Even you server was upgraded, I pretty sure that the FAI nfsroot was not rebuilt. The read-only issue is often caused by a NFS v4 issue. You can fix that by forcing NFS v3 for the nfsroot. I do this by adding nfsver=3 to the pxelinux.cfg file for the install client. The whole option then looks like this: root=1.2.3.4:/srv/fai/nfsroot,nfsvers=3 Also make sure you are using the option rootovl if you are using a 4.x kernel which enables overlayfs. In the past we used the option aufs, but this is only for 3.x kernels.
Re: No /tmp/fai/, /tmp not writable
> On Mon, 12 Feb 2018 11:20:12 -0600, John G Heim > said: > upunable to create a /tmp/fai/fai.log. So I can't really tell where the That's the usual problem when the read-only nfsroot is not writeable. Even you server was upgraded, I pretty sure that the FAI nfsroot was not rebuilt. The read-only issue is often caused by a NFS v4 issue. You can fix that by forcing NFS v3 for the nfsroot. I do this by adding nfsver=3 to the pxelinux.cfg file for the install client. The whole option then looks like this: root=1.2.3.4:/srv/fai/nfsroot,nfsvers=3 Also make sure you are using the option rootovl if you are using a 4.x kernel which enables overlayfs. In the past we used the option aufs, but this is only for 3.x kernels. -- regards Thomas
No /tmp/fai/, /tmp not writable
I'm having a problem with my FAI installs. The target machine comes upunable to create a /tmp/fai/fai.log. So I can't really tell where the problem begins. If I try to create the directory /tmp/fai/, I get the error "Operation not permitted". I would assume that means the root file system is mounted read-only. This may be related to an upgrade I did recently. My FAI server was running ubuntu 16.04. I had to upgrade it to 17.10 last week. That may or may not have upgraded fai since I get fai from the fai repository itself,. PS: Unfortunately, I cannot tell you what the screen says on the target machine. I'm blind. I used my phone to read it to me and it has a a gazillion "file not found" messages.
