Hi All, I discovered that the problem was not with rsync and was related to the ext4 file system used during initial setup of the golden client, mounting of the file system failed. I created a new system with ext3, SystemImager now clones with minor fixes required.
When running si_prepareclient I still get a problem with writing to /etc/systemconfig/systemconfg.conf with the following error: >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Starting or re-starting rsync as a daemon..... done! This client is ready to have its image retrieved. You must now run the "si_getimage" command on your imageserver. Your client has been successfully prepared. Boot kernel (copied from this Linux distribution) and an initrd.img (generated by the initrd_template package) can be found in /etc/systemimager/boot. Automatically create configuration file for systemconfigurator: >> /etc/systemconfig/systemconfig.conf FATAL: unable to detect an initrd for "2.6.32.9-70.fc12.i686"! WARNING: coulnd't create file /etc/systemconfig/systemconfig.conf (needed by systemconfigurator) You have mail in /var/spool/mail/root >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Does the line FATAL: unable to detect an initrd for "2.6.32.9-70.fc12.i686"! have a knock on effect and is preventing the systemconfig.conf being written to? When I create a new system via pxe boot, all is copied across but the boot loader (grub) section fails. I can scp all the required files and run grub-install to get the new system up and running. Any hints, tips and/or work around would be much appreciated. Regards, Sandy Spence Department of Computer Science Aberystwyth University Penglais Campus Llandinam Building Aberystwyth Ceredigion SY23 3DB Tel: 01970-622433 Fax: 01970-628536 -----Original Message----- From: sisuite-users-requ...@lists.sourceforge.net [mailto:sisuite-users-requ...@lists.sourceforge.net] Sent: 17 March 2010 21:38 To: sisuite-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: sisuite-users Digest, Vol 45, Issue 3 Send sisuite-users mailing list submissions to sisuite-users@lists.sourceforge.net To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/sisuite-users or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to sisuite-users-requ...@lists.sourceforge.net You can reach the person managing the list at sisuite-users-ow...@lists.sourceforge.net When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific than "Re: Contents of sisuite-users digest..." Today's Topics: 1. Re: rsync problems (Bernard Li) 2. Re: rsync problems (Brian Elliott Finley) 3. 6. rsync problems (Alexander James Spence [axs]) (Alexander James Spence [axs]) 4. a master script for the golden image includes disk-id? (yuan) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Mon, 8 Mar 2010 17:30:37 -0800 From: Bernard Li <bern...@vanhpc.org> Subject: Re: [sisuite-users] rsync problems To: sisuite-users@lists.sourceforge.net Message-ID: <d4c731da1003081730q699d57e7l6ceaedb137c97...@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Hi Sandy: On Mon, Mar 8, 2010 at 9:03 AM, Alexander James Spence [axs] <a...@aber.ac.uk> wrote: > There is 1G of RAM, each time it complains that tmpfs has run out of space > when transferring the file list, any clues where to start to fix this > problem? Can you please post the exact error message you got? How big is your image? And you are using the rsync transport (default) correct? You did mention you're getting rsync errors but the BItTorrent transport also uses rsync for some portion of the installation. Also, please post the version of SystemImager you're using and the distro/version or your image server. Regards, Bernard ------------------------------ Message: 2 Date: Tue, 9 Mar 2010 09:42:40 -0600 From: Brian Elliott Finley <br...@thefinleys.com> Subject: Re: [sisuite-users] rsync problems To: sisuite-users@lists.sourceforge.net Message-ID: <ddbe96da1003090742i181b6fb6x8c3c5e7e5e839...@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Try raising the number of inodes in the tmpfs filesystem. If you have lots of files, you could be using up all the the inodes and "filling up the filesystem", even if you are not copying over "lots of data". There's another SI append parameter to specify that: tmpfs_nr_inodes. Here are all the tmpfs options available that you can pass to SI: tmpfs_size tmpfs_nr_blocks tmpfs_nr_inodes tmpfs_mode Cheers, -Brian On Mar 8, 2010 11:21 AM, "Alexander James Spence [axs]" <a...@aber.ac.uk> wrote: Hi all, I have a Dell DT520 that I am trying to image. There is 1G of RAM, each time it complains that tmpfs has run out of space when transferring the file list, any clues where to start to fix this problem? This is the latest set of values on the APPEND list, I have tried a multitude of variations. APPEND initrd=/i386/standard/initrd.img root=/dev/ram ramdisk_blocksize=1024 ramdisk_size=43000 tmpfs_size=900M Regards, Sandy Spence Department of Computer Science Aberystwyth University Penglais Campus Llandinam Building Aberystwyth Ceredigion SY23 3DB Tel: 01970-622433 Fax: 01970-628536 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Download Intel® Parallel Studio Eval Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. 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Why can I not just burn the files straight to disk, the Golden-Client image size is 4.4G? >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> In answer to Bernard Li: I am using version 4.0.2-1 of Systemimager server and client suite and version 2.2.11-1 of Systemconfigurator The image size is 4.4G The OS on both server and client is Fedora 12 I am performing (I think) a straight forward image transfer, I think this is what you refer to as default rsync. The error message I am getting says that tmpfs has run out of space. One other point I would like to raise is that when I run si_prepairclient I get this message: Starting or re-starting rsync as a daemon..... done! This client is ready to have its image retrieved. You must now run the "si_getimage" command on your imageserver. Your client has been successfully prepared. Boot kernel (copied from this Linux distribution) and an initrd.img (generated by the initrd_template package) can be found in /etc/systemimager/boot. Automatically create configuration file for systemconfigurator: >> /etc/systemconfig/systemconfig.conf FATAL: unable to detect an initrd for "2.6.31.12-174.2.3.fc12.i686"! WARNING: coulnd't create file /etc/systemconfig/systemconfig.conf (needed by systemconfigurator) Could this be part of the problem, the prepair client command is si_prepareclient --server islserver --my-modules Regards, Sandy Spence Department of Computer Science Aberystwyth University Penglais Campus Llandinam Building Aberystwyth Ceredigion SY23 3DB Tel: 01970-622433 Fax: 01970-628536 -----Original Message----- From: sisuite-users-requ...@lists.sourceforge.net [mailto:sisuite-users-requ...@lists.sourceforge.net] Sent: 08 March 2010 17:21 To: sisuite-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: sisuite-users Digest, Vol 45, Issue 2 Send sisuite-users mailing list submissions to sisuite-users@lists.sourceforge.net To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/sisuite-users or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to sisuite-users-requ...@lists.sourceforge.net You can reach the person managing the list at sisuite-users-ow...@lists.sourceforge.net When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific than "Re: Contents of sisuite-users digest..." Today's Topics: 1. Updating kernel to 2.6.33 (Bryan Washer) 2. Re: Updating kernel to 2.6.33 (Bernard Li) 3. Re: Updating kernel to 2.6.33 (Bryan Washer) 4. Re: Updating kernel to 2.6.33 (Bryan Washer) 5. Re: Updating kernel to 2.6.33 (E-Blokos) 6. rsync problems (Alexander James Spence [axs]) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Thu, 4 Mar 2010 11:36:44 -0600 From: "Bryan Washer" <bwas...@vitesse.com> Subject: [sisuite-users] Updating kernel to 2.6.33 To: <sisuite-users@lists.sourceforge.net> Message-ID: <98cf3709c5cac34084d57e94fcc7991f7d7...@mx-txa.vsc.vitesse.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" I am trying to update the kernel on 4.0.2 to 2.6.33. I am able to get a clean build..but during boot of the kernel just after getting a DHCP address it stops with scrolling "Floating point exeption". From looking at it, I would assume this is a bug in the dhcp client with the newer kernel.....can anyone help me out with this? Or point me in a direction to determine the issue? I really do not want to update my SystemImager infrastructure as I have about 10 of them meshed throughout the organization and that would be quite a task, but I have a new load of HP DL160's that I Need to add support for and the IGB driver is not supported in the kernel until 2.6.27, and I have had one hell of a time trying to back port the driver so I thought I would just update the SI kernel. Thanks for any help you can office. Bryan Washer Sr. System Adminstrator Vitesse Semiconductor Corp. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... ------------------------------ Message: 2 Date: Thu, 4 Mar 2010 10:50:42 -0800 From: Bernard Li <bern...@vanhpc.org> Subject: Re: [sisuite-users] Updating kernel to 2.6.33 To: sisuite-users@lists.sourceforge.net Message-ID: <d4c731da1003041050xdf4ba6cu248909e0772f6...@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Hi Bryan: On Thu, Mar 4, 2010 at 9:36 AM, Bryan Washer <bwas...@vitesse.com> wrote: > I really do not want to update my SystemImager infrastructure as I have > about 10 of them meshed throughout the organization and that would be quite > a task, but I have a new load of HP DL160?s that I Need to add support for > and the IGB driver is not supported in the kernel until 2.6.27, and I have > had one hell of a time trying to back port the driver so I thought I would > just update the SI kernel. Have you tried using UYOK? That way you shouldn't need to update the SystemImager kernel: http://wiki.systemimager.org/index.php/UYOK Cheers, Bernard ------------------------------ Message: 3 Date: Thu, 4 Mar 2010 12:58:10 -0600 From: "Bryan Washer" <bwas...@vitesse.com> Subject: Re: [sisuite-users] Updating kernel to 2.6.33 To: <sisuite-users@lists.sourceforge.net> Message-ID: <98cf3709c5cac34084d57e94fcc7991f7d7...@mx-txa.vsc.vitesse.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" I have used UYOK for very specific needs but that does not fit in this case as I need to be able to use the same kernel in A LOT of different configurations (not just the one in which it was made)...that is why I still use the standard kernel with additions make to the kernel compiled in options and/or initrd my_modules if needed. This allows me to maintain a single kernel/initrd that is replicated to all my remote sites without having to maintain a lot of different kernels for different kinds of machines that I may or may not ever have physical access to. This is why I am trying to get the kernel updated, so I have access to a lot of the drivers necessary for HP that will not work on older kernels. Bryan P.S. I am in the process of bringing up the trunk code and compiling from scratch....in the off chance that I will need to do a global update to all my servers...as I only have so much time I to get this out. -----Original Message----- From: Bernard Li [mailto:bern...@vanhpc.org] Sent: Thursday, March 04, 2010 12:51 PM To: sisuite-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [sisuite-users] Updating kernel to 2.6.33 Hi Bryan: On Thu, Mar 4, 2010 at 9:36 AM, Bryan Washer <bwas...@vitesse.com> wrote: > I really do not want to update my SystemImager infrastructure as I have > about 10 of them meshed throughout the organization and that would be quite > a task, but I have a new load of HP DL160's that I Need to add support for > and the IGB driver is not supported in the kernel until 2.6.27, and I have > had one hell of a time trying to back port the driver so I thought I would > just update the SI kernel. Have you tried using UYOK? That way you shouldn't need to update the SystemImager kernel: http://wiki.systemimager.org/index.php/UYOK Cheers, Bernard ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------ Download Intel® Parallel Studio Eval Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev _______________________________________________ sisuite-users mailing list sisuite-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/sisuite-users ------------------------------ Message: 4 Date: Thu, 4 Mar 2010 14:30:31 -0600 From: "Bryan Washer" <bwas...@vitesse.com> Subject: Re: [sisuite-users] Updating kernel to 2.6.33 To: <sisuite-users@lists.sourceforge.net> Message-ID: <98cf3709c5cac34084d57e94fcc7991f7d7...@mx-txa.vsc.vitesse.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" I determined my error....it was user error...I compiled and updated the kernel but I did not update all the boel_binaries from the build...so I was using new kernel and old boel binaries.....I updated the binaries and everything is working fine now. Justposting here so it is available as reference for anyone else. In Summary, Downloaded new kernel from kernel.org Placed in src/ Edited kernel.rul to reflect new kernel version to build. Build to make sure everything is working Ran make clean just because Ran make menuconfig to add new drivers and get an updated .config file Copied .config to patches/linux.i386.config and patches/linux.x86_64.config Ran make for complete build Copied initrd_source/initrd.img to the pxeboot directory Copied arch/x86/boot/bzImage to the pxeboot directory (the x86_64 is a link to this file on a 64bit machine) Copied /tmp/boel_binaries.tar.gz to the standard location (Like the output from the builds tells you to) - missed this step myself.... Boot client...and you are getting the new binaries,kernel, and initrd with all the new drivers... Bryan -----Original Message----- From: Bernard Li [mailto:bern...@vanhpc.org] Sent: Thursday, March 04, 2010 12:51 PM To: sisuite-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [sisuite-users] Updating kernel to 2.6.33 Hi Bryan: On Thu, Mar 4, 2010 at 9:36 AM, Bryan Washer <bwas...@vitesse.com> wrote: > I really do not want to update my SystemImager infrastructure as I have > about 10 of them meshed throughout the organization and that would be quite > a task, but I have a new load of HP DL160's that I Need to add support for > and the IGB driver is not supported in the kernel until 2.6.27, and I have > had one hell of a time trying to back port the driver so I thought I would > just update the SI kernel. Have you tried using UYOK? That way you shouldn't need to update the SystemImager kernel: http://wiki.systemimager.org/index.php/UYOK Cheers, Bernard ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------ Download Intel® Parallel Studio Eval Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev _______________________________________________ sisuite-users mailing list sisuite-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/sisuite-users ------------------------------ Message: 5 Date: Thu, 4 Mar 2010 19:54:45 -0500 From: "E-Blokos" <in...@e-blokos.com> Subject: Re: [sisuite-users] Updating kernel to 2.6.33 To: <sisuite-users@lists.sourceforge.net> Message-ID: <e37b014553894ceea87ffd4434876...@mobilee1705> Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="iso-8859-1"; reply-type=original Thanks Bryan ! ----- Original Message ----- From: "Bryan Washer" <bwas...@vitesse.com> To: <sisuite-users@lists.sourceforge.net> Sent: Thursday, March 04, 2010 3:30 PM Subject: Re: [sisuite-users] Updating kernel to 2.6.33 >I determined my error....it was user error...I compiled and updated the > kernel but I did not update all the boel_binaries from the build...so I > was using new kernel and old boel binaries.....I updated the binaries > and everything is working fine now. > > Justposting here so it is available as reference for anyone else. > > In Summary, > > Downloaded new kernel from kernel.org > Placed in src/ > Edited kernel.rul to reflect new kernel version to build. > Build to make sure everything is working > Ran make clean just because > Ran make menuconfig to add new drivers and get an updated .config file > Copied .config to patches/linux.i386.config and > patches/linux.x86_64.config > Ran make for complete build > Copied initrd_source/initrd.img to the pxeboot directory > Copied arch/x86/boot/bzImage to the pxeboot directory (the x86_64 is a > link to this file on a 64bit machine) > Copied /tmp/boel_binaries.tar.gz to the standard location (Like the > output from the builds tells you to) - missed this step myself.... > Boot client...and you are getting the new binaries,kernel, and initrd > with all the new drivers... > > > Bryan > > -----Original Message----- > From: Bernard Li [mailto:bern...@vanhpc.org] > Sent: Thursday, March 04, 2010 12:51 PM > To: sisuite-users@lists.sourceforge.net > Subject: Re: [sisuite-users] Updating kernel to 2.6.33 > > Hi Bryan: > > On Thu, Mar 4, 2010 at 9:36 AM, Bryan Washer <bwas...@vitesse.com> > wrote: > >> I really do not want to update my SystemImager infrastructure as I > have >> about 10 of them meshed throughout the organization and that would be > quite >> a task, but I have a new load of HP DL160's that I Need to add support > for >> and the IGB driver is not supported in the kernel until 2.6.27, and I > have >> had one hell of a time trying to back port the driver so I thought I > would >> just update the SI kernel. > > Have you tried using UYOK? That way you shouldn't need to update the > SystemImager kernel: > > http://wiki.systemimager.org/index.php/UYOK > > Cheers, > > Bernard > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > ------ > Download Intel® Parallel Studio Eval > Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs > proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. > See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta. > http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev > _______________________________________________ > sisuite-users mailing list > sisuite-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/sisuite-users > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Download Intel® Parallel Studio Eval > Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs > proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. > See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta. > http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev > _______________________________________________ > sisuite-users mailing list > sisuite-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/sisuite-users ------------------------------ Message: 6 Date: Mon, 8 Mar 2010 17:03:16 +0000 From: "Alexander James Spence [axs]" <a...@aber.ac.uk> Subject: [sisuite-users] rsync problems To: "sisuite-users@lists.sourceforge.net" <sisuite-users@lists.sourceforge.net> Message-ID: <8edb6e83019bec4b9153122cfb928af001d8ba5e0...@mailbox.staff.aber.ac.uk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Hi all, I have a Dell DT520 that I am trying to image. There is 1G of RAM, each time it complains that tmpfs has run out of space when transferring the file list, any clues where to start to fix this problem? This is the latest set of values on the APPEND list, I have tried a multitude of variations. APPEND initrd=/i386/standard/initrd.img root=/dev/ram ramdisk_blocksize=1024 ramdisk_size=43000 tmpfs_size=900M Regards, Sandy Spence Department of Computer Science Aberystwyth University Penglais Campus Llandinam Building Aberystwyth Ceredigion SY23 3DB Tel: 01970-622433 Fax: 01970-628536 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... ------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Download Intel® Parallel Studio Eval Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev ------------------------------ _______________________________________________ sisuite-users mailing list sisuite-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/sisuite-users End of sisuite-users Digest, Vol 45, Issue 2 ******************************************** ------------------------------ Message: 4 Date: Wed, 17 Mar 2010 22:09:03 +0100 From: yuan <y...@embl.de> Subject: [sisuite-users] a master script for the golden image includes disk-id? To: sisuite-users@lists.sourceforge.net Message-ID: <4ba144ef.3010...@embl.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Hi Just I've deployed the systemimager 4.1.6 on the server+client (both opensuse 11.2, x86_64). The golden image was created successfully and PXE-booting etc were working fine too. But the newly created master script failed during the installation of the golden image into the clients on disk-creation. A look at its content shows in the part "BEGIN swap and filesystem createion commands" of the script the following: mke2fs -q -j /dev/disk/by-id/ata-WDC_WD3200AAKS-75L9A0_WD-WMAV2F157507-part2 || shellout . It looks like the master script has just taken over the fstab content of the golden client without big modification. Is there any step/parameter forgotten in the si_prepareclient procedure so that the master script should go for /dev/sda-schema instead of /dev/disk/by-id/ata-xxx? Maybe changing my golden client's /etc/fstab to adapt it to the old schema /dev/sda would solve the problem. Is there anything from systemconfigurator having to be run to re/solve this? Yan ------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Download Intel® Parallel Studio Eval Try the new software tools for yourself. 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