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

Thu, 26 Oct 2017 01:11:18 -0700

Hi, Andrew
 
It seems the the BMC fru of the node qserv-master01 may return some message that can not be dealt by xCAT correctly.
Can you show me the output of 'ipmitool -I lanplus -H <BMC_IP> -U <bmc_username> -P <bmc_password> fru' to output the fru message for the BMC of the server?
 
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: 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: Thu, Oct 26, 2017 1:15 AM
 
Hi all,
 
I just found today that the rinv command succeeds if I ask for just the machine "serial" number:
 
rinv qserv-master01 serial
 
but fails (with the error below) when trying to get the "mac" or just running rinv without any optional limit specifier.
 
Cheers,
--Andy
 
On Fri, Oct 20, 2017 at 9:24 AM Loftus, Andrew J <alof...@illinois.edu> wrote:
# lsxcatd -a
Version 2.11.1 (git commit b6e4c8ca1847bf574d7e86687d74a7f2576d428a, built Thu Apr 14 09:32:27 EDT 2016)
This is a Management Node
dbengine=SQLite
 
# rinv qserv-master01
Error: ipmi plugin bug, pid 15534, 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
On Fri, Oct 20, 2017 at 4:47 AM Er Tao Zhao <erta...@cn.ibm.com> wrote:
Which version of xCAT are you using?
And can you show me the whole output of 'rinv'?
 
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: Andrew Loftus <alof...@illinois.edu>
To: xCAT Users Mailing list <xcat-user@lists.sourceforge.net>
Cc:
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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