I've figured out what it is. site.nodestatus got set to 0 in our 
configuration. This seems to have a side effect of making diskfull nodes 
enter an install loop.

Is this expected behavior?



On 2/25/2014 11:08 AM, Russell Jones wrote:
> So I put some breadcrumbs in the autoinst file and it seems like there's
> a section at the bottom where if NODESTATUS != 0, it will run the
> updateflag.awk to flip the node over to boot. I exported NODESTATUS
> right before that if statement is ran and it is 0. There's exports for
> NODESTATUS above that file that sets it to 0, and I am not seeing
> anywhere else where NODESTATUS could have the potential to be set to
> anything but 0.
>
> Thoughts?
>
>
> On 2/25/2014 10:27 AM, Russell Jones wrote:
>> Sorry, just for clarification that's /var/log/messages on the node
>> showing those messages, not xcat.log.
>>
>>
>> On 2/25/2014 10:20 AM, Russell Jones wrote:
>>> Hi all,
>>>
>>> I have a strange issue with a CentOS 5 compute node that is in a
>>> reinstall loop. I've checked the usual things, such as DNS forward and
>>> reverse resolution, network configuration, etc, and the node should have
>>> no problem talking to it's servicenode/xcatmaster.
>>>
>>> I've forced the node to boot after an install and am trying to replicate
>>> running './updateflag.awk $MASTER 3002 "installstatus booted"' manually
>>> to see if it will flip itself over to boot per docs and other mailing
>>> list posts I've read. The xcat.log file on the node shows:
>>>
>>> xcat: ready
>>> xcat: done
>>>
>>> .... everytime I do that, however it still doesn't flip itself over to
>>> boot when I check "nodeset $node stat" on the xcatmaster. Neither the
>>> service node nor management node are logging anything when I do that.
>>>
>>> Any ideas on how I can dive further into this and see what's going
>>> wrong? Is there a better test to manually replicate the node telling
>>> it's master that it is done installing?
>>>
>>> Thanks!
>>>
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