Re: [xcat-user] Replacement node won't install OS, rinv fails with ipmi plugin bug

[Er Tao Zhao]

Which version of xCAT are you using?

And can you show me the whole output of 'rinv'?

 

Thx!

 

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----- Original message -----
From: Andrew Loftus <alof...@illinois.edu>
To: xCAT Users Mailing list <xcat-user@lists.sourceforge.net>
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Subject: Re: [xcat-user] Replacement node won't install OS, rinv fails with ipmi plugin bug
Date: Fri, Oct 20, 2017 12:39 AM
 

UPDATE

 

I solved the OS install problem ... I had inserted the wrong MAC into the xcat mac table.

 

The rinv problem is still an open question though.  With rinv working, the human error factor would not have been introduced.

 

Cheers,

--Andy

 

On Thu, Oct 19, 2017 at 11:13 AM Andrew Loftus <alof...@illinois.edu> wrote:

Hi,

 

I'm attempting to replace an existing node with new hardware.  Machine type is Lenovo x3650.  I have removed the old node from the network, setup the IMM ip-address, user and passwd.

 

At this point, rpower and pasu commands work, but the rinv command fails with this error:

Error: ipmi plugin bug, pid 33988, process description: 'xCATd SSL: rinv to qserv-master01 for root@localhost: ipmi instance' with error 'Can't use string ("") as an ARRAY ref while "strict refs" in use at /opt/xcat/lib/perl/xCAT_plugin/ipmi.pm line 3771.

' while trying to fulfill request for the following nodes: qserv-master01

 

The point of rinv is to get the MAC address of the first network interface and add it to the mac table. To work around this, I entered the MAC address manually in the mac table.  At this point, I ran my rebuild script, which runs nodeset, rsetboot, and rpower. I expect to the node to pxe boot and install the OS, but instead the node pxe boots the xcat discovery environment.

 

I'm confused at this point.  I'm not sure if the error from rinv is related to the boot issue, but I can't bring up the node.  Any thoughts would be helpful.

 

Cheers,

--Andy

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