On 20 September 2012 18:08, Jonathan Barber <[email protected]> wrote: > On 20 September 2012 17:04, Arif Ali <[email protected]> wrote: >> I am currently installing a cluster with SL6.3, and my comments on the >> questions in line below, with my 2 cents >> >>>> #0 - Yes, xcatconfig is trying to restart the nfs service for the first >>>> installing to export the /install directory. But the problem is that could >>>> you run 'service nfs restart' successfully without touch of 'rpcbind' >>>> service? If no, is it an issue of SL6? >>> >>> I don't think any RHEL based systems do this kind of dependency checking >>> (although later Fedora's do) - certainly RHEL5 and before will not start >>> portmapper for you. >> >> I've not had this issue, as I just do a standard base install, and do >> a "yum install xCAT" maybe it was somehow totally missed > > I just retried this on a SL6 machine I just installed with xCAT, the > kickstart %package definition was basically: > %package --nobase > @core >
This is my usual package list for an xCAT MN @base @core net-snmp nfs-utils ntp openssh-server rsync util-linux-ng > >>>> #1 - The rcons worked in pxe phase was because the console was control by >>>> firmware. Could you check the parameter for the console was set correctly. >>>> And what's it help if not add the console parameter to the kernel >>>> parameter? >>> >>> Using xnba I sometimes get the console through rcons - sometimes I don't. >> >> I use XNBA, have done since it's inception. But the "console=ttyXXX" >> is required for the purpose of viewing the console of the machine via >> rcons/wcons. Without this you have no console. Have you tried the >> recommended settings on you machine. I still have a test cluster with >> x3455's, and I had no problems with that, except that the serialspeed >> needed to be 19200 instead of 115200 > > My serial settings for the node are: > serialport=0 > serialspeed=19200 > > and the kcmdline is: > quiet repo=http://xcat.fe.up.pt/install/SL6/x86_64/ > ks=http://xcat.fe.up.pt/install/autoinst/test32 ksdevice=bootif > cmdline console=tty0 console=ttyS0,19200 > > I don't need the console ATM, so I think I'll just remove the > configuration to get it installing consistently. > Yeah, the best way to diagnose to continue to persist at the relevant BIOS settings, If the machine supports ASU, can you give us the full output of "./asu showvalues", from this, we may be able to spot the issues >>>> #4 - Stopping loop install does NOT depend on any postscript. >>> >>> How does xcat know to change the boot status from "install" to "boot" after >>> the install is completed? >> >> The postscript, i.e. >> >> #INCLUDE:#ENV:XCATROOT#/share/xcat/install/scripts/post.rh# >> >> is required for the machine to communicate with the MN so that it >> knows about the install finishing, and change the relevant xnba/pxe >> settings for it to boot back again. This also grabs the relevant >> postscripts defined in postscripts.postscripts. but if you don't have >> any postscripts, then you should be ok, but the main one you would >> want to keep is the remoteshell; so that you can log into the machine >> without any passwords, and able to do you own post install stuff. >> >> The pre script is required, so that you can monitor the state of the >> install while it is installing, via nodestat. > > Ok, that makes more sense, and explains why my installs keep looping > when I don't include the post.rh. > > Do you know which postscript script contacts the MN to change the install > state? The main post.rh does that. So you in essence must include that as part of your installation. The rest of any other postscripts would be mentioned in the postscripts table. I hope that makes sense > I just discovered that xdsh requires /usr/bin/ssh, so that should > probably be added as a Requires in the xcat.spec file as well. see my earlier list of package lists, where I install openssh-server, this should do it for you regards, Arif ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Everyone hates slow websites. So do we. Make your web apps faster with AppDynamics Download AppDynamics Lite for free today: http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;258768047;13503038;j? http://info.appdynamics.com/FreeJavaPerformanceDownload.html _______________________________________________ xCAT-user mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/xcat-user
