I used Kilian's workaround. It is working fine so far.
-- ddj
Dave Johnson
> On Jun 23, 2017, at 1:00 AM, Er Tao Zhao <erta...@cn.ibm.com> wrote:
>
> Hi, Dave
>
> Based on Cheng Long's comments, Will you pls work around it with:
> Download 2.13.4 xcat-dep tar ball from
> https://xcat.org/files/xcat/xcat-dep/2.x_Linux/xcat-dep-2.13.4-linux.tar.bz2
> Extract it and go to the correct sub directory for his OS+arch
> Force to install it with "rpm -U -v -h --force
> /path/to/conserver-xcat-8.1.16-10.ppc64le.rpm"
> Thx!
> Best Regards,
> -----------------------------------
> Zhao Er Tao
>
> IBM China System and Technology Laboratory, Beijing
> Tel:(86-10)82450485
> Email: erta...@cn.ibm.com
> Address: 1/F, 28 Building,ZhongGuanCun Software Park,
> No.8 DongBeiWang West Road, Haidian District,
> Beijing, 100193, P.R.China
>
>
> ----- Original message -----
> From: "Long LA Cheng" <cheng...@cn.ibm.com>
> To: xcat-user@lists.sourceforge.net
> Cc: xcat-user@lists.sourceforge.net
> Subject: Re: [xcat-user] conserver / rcons errors after upgrade
> Date: Fri, Jun 23, 2017 11:48 AM
>
> Hi Kilian,
>
> Thanks for your reply, I explain some historical reasons that we do not use
> the conserver from upstream directly.
>
> 1. xcat should support some old version systems. From their default repo, it
> can not get the conserver with the proper version. conserver supports the
> option of sslcacertificatefile until 8.1.19.
>
> 2. Another reason is that xcat is trying to support some scenario that the
> management node can not connect to the internet repo directly, the user can
> copy the repo files and create the repo locally.
>
> Thanks.
> Best Regards
>
> Long Cheng(程龙)
> IBM Systems &Technology Group, Development
> SOFTWARE ENGINEER
> Tel:86-10-82453046
> Email:cheng...@cn.ibm.com
> Address: 3F, Building 28, Zhong Guan Cun Software Park, No.8, Dong Bei Wang
> West Road, Hai Dian District, Beijing 100193, PRC
> 地址：国际商业机器中国(投资)有限公司, 中国系统科技实验室, 北京市海淀区东北旺西路8号中关村软件园28号楼3层，邮编:100193
>
>
> ----- Original message -----
> From: Long LA Cheng/China/IBM
> To: xcat-user@lists.sourceforge.net
> Cc: xcat-user@lists.sourceforge.net
> Subject: Re: [xcat-user] conserver / rcons errors after upgrade
> Date: Fri, Jun 23, 2017 11:26 AM
>
> Hi Dave Johnson,
>
> Sorry for the inconvenience，I guess this error is due to the inconsistencies
> of the xcat-core(2.13.4) and xcat-dep(2.13.5 dev) from online repo.
> As conserver-xcat has been upgrade to the latest version (8.2.1), some
> configuration option from upstream is different from the old one with patches.
>
> Can you try the steps below to see if it can solve the problem:
>
> sed -i 's/sslauthority/sslcacertificatefile/1' $HOME/.consolerc
> sed -i 's/sslauthority/sslcacertificatefile/1' /etc/conserver.cf
> service conserver restart
>
> Thanks
> Best Regards
>
> Long Cheng(程龙)
> IBM Systems &Technology Group, Development
> SOFTWARE ENGINEER
> Tel:86-10-82453046
> Email:cheng...@cn.ibm.com
> Address: 3F, Building 28, Zhong Guan Cun Software Park, No.8, Dong Bei Wang
> West Road, Hai Dian District, Beijing 100193, PRC
> 地址：国际商业机器中国(投资)有限公司, 中国系统科技实验室, 北京市海淀区东北旺西路8号中关村软件园28号楼3层，邮编:100193
>
>
> ----- Original message -----
> From: Kilian Cavalotti <kilian.cavalotti.w...@gmail.com>
> To: xCAT Users Mailing list <xcat-user@lists.sourceforge.net>
> Cc:
> Subject: Re: [xcat-user] conserver / rcons errors after upgrade
> Date: Fri, Jun 23, 2017 5:39 AM
>
> On Thu, Jun 22, 2017 at 1:55 PM, David D. Johnson
> <david_john...@brown.edu> wrote:
> > Just finished updating xcat front-end node from rhels7.2 to rhels7.3, at
> > the same time
> > as updating from xcat from 2.12.something to 2.13.4. Since then rcons
> > gives me these errors:
> >
> >
> > [root@mgt5 etc]# rcons node475
> > console: invalid keyword 'sslauthority' [/root/.consolerc:3]
>
> > What did I miss in the upgrade?
>
> Argh, it's partly my fault: I'm the one who requested an upgrade of
> the conserver version that ships in xcat-deps:
> https://github.com/xcat2/xcat-dep/issues/18
>
> On the other hand, I haven't seen any announce or notification about
> the update. Since it breaks existing configurations, it could have
> been a good idea.
>
> Anyway, long story short, the xCAT-provided version of conserver had
> 10yo local patches to support SSL. Those have made their way upstream
> since then, but with some different option names. So what you'll need
> to do is replace the "sslauthority" directive by
> "sslcacertificatefile" in both /etc/conserver.cf and /root/.consolerc
>
> I guess now that the conserver version in xcat-dep is the same as
> upstream, it's not really necessary to ship it in xcat-dep, the
> dependency could just be made on the upstream version (which is in
> EPEL and SLES). Or is there any reason to keep a xCAT-specific
> version?
>
> Cheers,
> --
> Kilian
>
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