Rochus Schmid wrote:
> hello,
> 
> during an upgrade of our little cluster to open suse 10.2 (both image server 
> and clients: 2.6.18.2-34) i installed the recent systemimager 4.0.0-1 
> (systemconfigurator 2.2.10-2).
> 
> si_getimage and configuring the server (for netboot) works fine.
> but when i boot another client it boots fine (no UYOK), partitions et.
> but the rsync prints tons of errors always saying:
> 
> rsync: failed to set times on .... 
> and ends with an error message. here the autoinstall process stops.
> 
> i did not find anything related in the systemimager archives but the problem 
> is mentioned in a samba mailing list:
> https://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4977
> 
> obviously rsync tries to change the modification times for certain 
> directories? ... i am probably getting about 20% of what is discussed here 
> but my impression is that this is actually not really a problem but the 
> autoinstall script stops due to the error message.
> 
> can i suppress the behavior of rsync to report an error in this case? and how 
> should i do that? or am i doing soemthing terribly wrong.
> 
> any help would be highly appreciated (my coworkers are deperately waiting for 
> the cluster to be up and running again :-)

I can confirm that the rsync into the SystemImager initrd.img has been compiled
on a 2.6.22 kernel, but we're using a 2.6.21 for the standard BOEL kernel. :-(

I'm sure the fix for this particular case would be to simply update the BOEL
kernel to 2.6.22, or just build SystemImager from source on a kernel < 2.6.22.
But how to handle all the possible different UYOK kernels? This is not a simple
issue.

Anyway, to quickly proceed, an ugly workaround would be to simply comment the
"|| shellout" in your .master script (/var/lib/systemimager/scripts/) at end of
the rsync line (near line 372), or just use a different transport, i.e.
BitTorrent (http://wiki.systemimager.org/index.php/BitTorrent).

Moreover, could you open a ticket in our new bug tracking system
(http://www.systemimager.org/trac/newticket)? It's still in beta, but hopefully
we'll to open it "for production" very soon.

In the while I'll start thinking to a smart solution to resolve (maybe updating
rsync to the 3.0.0pre4 pre-release into the SystemImager initrd.img, that
doesn't seem to correctly handle this problem)...

Thanks for reporting,
-Andrea

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