I thought I'd try this once more... Anyone have any thoughts on the issue below?
Thanks, Doug Doug Hackworth wrote: > Greetings, SystemImager persons. I have an issue for which I must turn to > the > experts. I've used SystemImager successfully before (on a different set of > machines than described here), so I'm not a _total_ novice, but I'm not an > expert user, either. > > I have a small cluster of Ubuntu 8.04 nodes onto which I have installed > systemimager 4.02 and systemconfigurator 2.2.11 from the Debian packages on > the > website. On my golden client (called 'node02') I can create an image with > si_prepareclient, no problem (run as root). However, attempting to retrieve > the > image from the image server (the cluster's master node) results in the > following: > > <transcript> > # si_getimage --version > si_getimage (part of SystemImager) v4.0.2 > # si_getimage --golden-client node02 --image image_name --ip-assignment dhcp > --post-install kexec > [snip... saying 'y' to questions] > > Retrieving /etc/systemimager/mounted_filesystems from node02 to check for > mounted filesystems... > ------------- node02 mounted_filesystems RETRIEVAL PROGRESS ------------- > @ERROR: access denied to root from node01 (192.168.44.1) > rsync error: error starting client-server protocol (code 5) at main.c(1383) > [receiver=2.6.9] > ------------- node02 mounted_filesystems RETRIEVAL FINISHED ------------- > Failed to retrieve /etc/systemimager/mounted_filesystems from node02. > si_getimage: Have you run "si_prepareclient" on node02? > If you see the message "unrecognised option" above, check > http://systemimager.org/download/ to be sure that you are running > the recommended version of rsync. > # > </transcript> > > And yet, rsync between the two machines, for that particular file even, WILL > work, as you can see in this transcript: > > <transcript> > # mkdir /tmp/foo > # cd /tmp/foo > # rsync --version > rsync version 2.6.9 protocol version 29 > # FILE=/etc/systemimager/mounted_filesystems > # rsync --log-file=test_rsync_log.txt [EMAIL PROTECTED]:$FILE . > # ls > total 8 > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 662 2008-12-01 09:46 mounted_filesystems > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 182 2008-12-01 09:46 test_rsync_log.txt > # wtf! > -bash: wtf!: command not found > # > </transcript> > > There you see it, rsync got the file from node02 with nary a problem. I'm > pretty sure it's not a firewall issue, since there are no iptables rules in > effect on the golden client, and even if there were, you can see that the > simple > rsync example worked (there is a firewall active on the image server, but the > rsync port 873 is open, and again, the simple example works). > > Is there something simple I'm missing? A systemimager config file somewhere? > I > don't remember having to do such a thing from my previous experience. > > I have Googled the error message thoroughly, including permutations, to no > avail. Frustratingly, I can't even seem to find out exactly what "code 5" is. > > Please let me know if you need more information on context... I'd be most > grateful for any help that you could offer. > > Many thanks, > Doug > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ _______________________________________________ sisuite-users mailing list sisuite-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/sisuite-users
