[xcat-user] ubuntu 20 or 22 working for anyone

Good morning all, has anyone got a working deployment for ubuntu 20 or 22 or has everyone essentially given up on that for the time being? Will I save myself a lot of trouble if we just go with CentOS 8 or 9? Kind regards, Jeff Berry, Computing Officer, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences

[xcat-user] xcat ubuntu 22 image

the current state of the art - https://github.com/xcat2/xcat-core/pull/6975? If so does it also work for ubuntu 22.04? I apologise if I've missed something obvious ... Kind regards, Jeff Berry, Computing Officer, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit

Re: [xcat-user] [External] Re: problem with genimage ubuntu22.04 LTS

Thank you both ... that’s useful information, back to the hunt and drawing board, then, Best, Jeff Berry Computer Officer, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit From: Jarrod Johnson Sent: 24 July 2023 15:47 To: xCAT Users Mailing list Subject: Re: [xcat-user] [External] Re: problem

Re: [xcat-user] problem with genimage ubuntu22.04 LTS

the image. Any thoughts, anyone? Jeff Berry Computer Officer, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit From: Jeff Berry Sent: 19 July 2023 10:19 To: xCAT Users Mailing list Subject: [xcat-user] problem with genimage ubuntu22.04 LTS Good morning all, We’re moving from our old xcat installation (2.14.2

[xcat-user] problem with genimage ubuntu22.04 LTS

a few years ago or anything I can find in the documentation is helping me see what I’m missing ... Can anyone point me in the right direction? Jeff Berry Computer Officer, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit ___ xCAT-user mailing list xCAT-user

Re: [xcat-user] Strange issue switching to ramdisk ...

That is exactly it! It was more or less staring me in the face, but I just couldn’t see it. Thank you for saving me from hours of frustration, Jeff Berry MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Cambridge From: Kevin Keane Sent: 08 July 2019 17:00 To: xCAT Users Mailing list Subject: Re

[xcat-user] Strange issue switching to ramdisk ...

img. Then did the same check on it again. Still no zoneinfo. It feels like I might be missing something obvious, but I'm not sure what ... any pointers would be very much appreciated, Jeff Berry MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Cambridge ___ xCAT-u

Re: [xcat-user] nfs mounting root image from different server

Hi Yuan, that’s helpful. A further question – is it possible to do the nfs mount from a non-XCAT server? IE From a NAS device of some sort? Really what we’re hoping for is some redundancy and possible throughput increase by using our storage system. Regards, Jeff Berry, MRC CBSU From

[xcat-user] nfs mounting root image from different server

be wrong on this ... lsxcatd -v Version 2.14.2 (git commit f2090565b1d1b8efa7558d034de0478456c38e4c, built Wed Jul 11 07:15:53 EDT 2018) Anyone tried to do something like this before? Jeff Berry, MRC CBSU -- Check out

Re: [xcat-user] statelite crashes with nfs server timeout

Hi all, the problem with setting up the bonded interface on the client. If it was set up on the command line at deployment, it didn’t propagate properly into the OS. And my guess is that what happened then is that the OS tried to send its DHCP requests over the bond, which was not actually

Re: [xcat-user] statelite crashes with nfs server timeout

After we had some (let’s say self inflicted)?issues with dhcp, I added hardeths to the list of postscripts. Still would want to know why dhcp is failing. -- ddj Dave Johnson On Jul 16, 2018, at 8:55 AM, Jeff Berry mailto:jeff.be...@mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk>> wrote: Hi all, the problem is

Re: [xcat-user] statelite crashes with nfs server timeout

, thanks for the pointers, Jeff, MRC CBSU From: Jeff Berry [mailto:jeff.be...@mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk] Sent: 16 July 2018 12:00 To: xCAT Users Mailing list Subject: Re: [xcat-user] statelite crashes with nfs server timeout Thanks for the ideas everyone, I’ll look into kdump and double check

Re: [xcat-user] statelite crashes with nfs server timeout

Thanks for the ideas everyone, I’ll look into kdump and double check the firewalling. (And have another look through the mount options;-) Regards, Jeff Berry -- Check out the vibrant tech community on one

[xcat-user] statelite crashes with nfs server timeout

overnight. this may not be an xcat problem at all, it may be an nfs issue, but I thought I'd toss it out here and see if it rang any bells for anyone, Jeff Berry, MRC CBSU -- Check out the vibrant tech community on one

Re: [xcat-user] resolv.conf multiple search domains

an District, Beijing P.R.China 100193 IBM环宇大厦 北京市海淀区东北旺西路8号，中关村软件园28号楼 邮编:100193 - Original message - From: Jeff Berry mailto:jeff.be...@mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk>> To: xCAT Users Mailing list mailto:xcat-user@lists.sourceforge.net>> Cc: Subject: [xcat-user] resolv.conf multiple se

Re: [xcat-user] resolv.conf multiple search domains

:86-10-82451401 E-mail: by...@cn.ibm.com<mailto:by...@cn.ibm.com> Address: IBM ZGC Campus. Ring Building 28, ZhongGuanCun Software Park,No.8 Dong Bei Wang West Road, Haidian District, Beijing P.R.China 100193 IBM环宇大厦 北京市海淀区东北旺西路8号，中关村软件园28号楼 邮编:100193 - Original message - From: Jeff

[xcat-user] resolv.conf multiple search domains

on the search line. The nameservers themselves are correct, though. I tried editing the .defaults/etc/resolv.conf file, but it had no effect. Obviously I am unclear on how that resolv.conf file is being generated, and any pointers that anyone can provide will be gratefully followed up. Jeff Berry, MRC

[xcat-user] best practices for packages

otherpgkdir/list would be useful for non-distro rpms. Is that the main usage case? Best, Jeff Berry, MRC-CBU -- Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most engaging tech sites, Slashdot.org! http

Re: [xcat-user] SciLinux 7.4 statelite problems

Yes - console=tty0 console=ttyS1,115200 MNTOPTS= I rebuilt the xcat server with CentOS 7.5 (and built images with that), and now the drac console is working properly. In any case, to a first approximation, I can deploy the cluster. Thanks again, Jeff Berry From: david_john...@brown.edu

Re: [xcat-user] SciLinux 7.4 statelite problems - mostly solved

a workaround to get the rest of the deployment sorted. Thanks to everyone (and especially Gilad) for the help and advice, Jeff Berry, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit -- Check out the vibrant tech community on one

Re: [xcat-user] SciLinux 7.4 statelite problems

: Song BJ Yang [mailto:yang...@cn.ibm.com] Sent: 20 June 2018 08:19 To: xcat-user@lists.sourceforge.net Cc: xcat-user@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [xcat-user] SciLinux 7.4 statelite problems hi Jeff Berry, when did you see the error message? during `genimage`? or during node boot up? "

Re: [xcat-user] SciLinux 7.4 statelite problems

邮编:100193 - Original message - From: Jeff Berry mailto:jeff.be...@mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk>> To: xCAT Users Mailing list mailto:xcat-user@lists.sourceforge.net>> Cc: Subject: Re: [xcat-user] SciLinux 7.4 statelite problems Date: Mon, Jun 18, 2018 5:36 PM Hi everyone, thanks fo

Re: [xcat-user] SciLinux 7.4 statelite problems

;ALL","/tmp/","tmpfs",, "ALL","/var/","tmpfs",, "ALL","/opt/xcat/","tmpfs",, "ALL","/xcatpost/","tmpfs",, "ALL","/etc/systemd/system/multi-user.target.wants/","tmpfs

[xcat-user] SciLinux 7.4 statelite problems

be causing this problem, nor how to fix it. Any insight will be latched upon to with unseemly haste, Jeff Berry MRC-CBSU, Cambridge -- Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most engaging tech sites, Sl

Re: [xcat-user] [External] Problem with statelite boot - no console or ssh

breakpoints to work – I tried them all. Thanks for everyone’s time, and sorry if I’m making obvious rookie mistakes ... Jeff Berry jeff.be...@mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk<mailto:jeff.be...@mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk> From: Yuan Y Bai [mailto:by...@cn.ibm.com] Sent: 18 May 2018 02:19 To: xcat-user@lists.sourceforge.

Re: [xcat-user] [External] Problem with statelite boot - no console or ssh

worked, and the node booted to the same point before hanging. This suggests to me that the dracut hooks are not working properly. I’m investigating that more thorougly. I did want to thank you both for the replies. Jeff Berry jeff.be...@mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk<mailto:jeff.be...@mrc-cbu.cam.ac

[xcat-user] Problem with statelite boot - no console or ssh

s like I'm missing something obvious, but (clearly) I don't know what ... any pointers? Jeff Berry jeff.be...@mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk May 15 09:34:45 master02 xcat[188517]: DEBUG xcatd: connection from root@localhost May 15 09:34:45 master02 xcat[188517]: DEBUG xcatd: open new process : xcatd SSL: rpower