Do you have serial console on ttyS1 at 115200 baud with no flow control?
The dell servers I have used use second serial port for console, rather than
ttyS0 that most IBM Lenovo servers use.
-- ddj
Dave Johnson
> On Jun 20, 2018, at 7:02 AM, Song BJ Yang <yang...@cn.ibm.com> wrote:
>
> hi,
>
> is it possible to provide the screen log of the running `genimage` and
> system boot up on console after `rinstall/rpower`?
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> YANG Song (杨嵩)
> IBM China System Technology Laboratory
> Tel: 86-10-82452903
> Email: yang...@cn.ibm.com
> Address: Building 28, ZhongGuanCun Software Park,
> No.8, Dong Bei Wang West Road, Haidian District Beijing 100193, PRC
>
> 北京市海淀区东北旺西路8号中关村软件园28号楼
> 邮编: 100193
>
>
> ----- Original message -----
> From: Jeff Berry <jeff.be...@mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk>
> To: xCAT Users Mailing list <xcat-user@lists.sourceforge.net>
> Cc:
> Subject: Re: [xcat-user] SciLinux 7.4 statelite problems
> Date: Wed, Jun 20, 2018 6:25 PM
>
> Hi,
>
>
>
> the message is on boot and I never get to a console prompt. I’m starting to
> wonder if there may be some issue with dracut, possibly on the specific
> hardware I’m using. I’m using Dell C6420s, and try as I might I can’t get
> the install to drop to a dracut shell.
>
>
>
> Regards,
>
>
>
> Jeff
>
>
>
> From: Song BJ Yang [mailto:yang...@cn.ibm.com]
> Sent: 20 June 2018 08:19
> To: xcat-user@lists.sourceforge.net
> Cc: xcat-user@lists.sourceforge.net
> Subject: Re: [xcat-user] SciLinux 7.4 statelite problems
>
>
>
> hi Jeff Berry,
>
>
>
> when did you see the error message? during `genimage`? or during node boot
> up?
>
>
>
> "
>
> code killed, status 6/ABRT
>
> on restart ‘/run/log/journal/<string>/system.journal corrupted or uncleanly
> shut down.
>
> "
>
>
>
> can you see the login prompt on the console?
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> YANG Song (杨嵩)
> IBM China System Technology Laboratory
> Tel: 86-10-82452903
> Email: yang...@cn.ibm.com
> Address: Building 28, ZhongGuanCun Software Park,
> No.8, Dong Bei Wang West Road, Haidian District Beijing 100193, PRC
>
> 北京市海淀区东北旺西路8号中关村软件园28号楼
> 邮编: 100193
>
>
>
>
>
> ----- Original message -----
> From: Jeff Berry <jeff.be...@mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk>
> To: xCAT Users Mailing list <xcat-user@lists.sourceforge.net>
> Cc:
> Subject: Re: [xcat-user] SciLinux 7.4 statelite problems
> Date: Tue, Jun 19, 2018 4:42 PM
>
>
> Hi Yuan,
>
>
>
> I made the change to litefile as you suggested.
>
> I was already running break.cleanup, but I tried pre-pivot as well.
>
> In both cases, the node boots, is pingable, but the console doesn’t get to
> login and ssh gives a connection refused.
>
>
>
> Best,
>
>
>
> Jeff
>
>
>
> From: Yuan Y Bai [mailto:by...@cn.ibm.com]
> Sent: 19 June 2018 08:37
> To: xcat-user@lists.sourceforge.net
> Cc: xcat-user@lists.sourceforge.net
> Subject: Re: [xcat-user] SciLinux 7.4 statelite problems
>
>
>
> Hi Jeff,
>
>
>
> Could you try rd.break=cleanup as following, or you can try to set break
> point addkcmdline=rd.break=pre-pivot.
>
>
>
> chdef node-i01 addkcmdline=rd.break=cleanup
>
> rinstall node-i01 osimage
>
> rcons node-i01
>
>
>
> Have you try to add "/etc/systemd/" in litefile? Now we just add
> "/etc/systemd/system/multi-user.target.wants/".
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> Best Regards
> --------------------------------------------------
> Yuan Bai (白媛)
>
> CSTL HPC System Management Development
> Tel:86-10-82451401
> E-mail: by...@cn.ibm.com
> Address: IBM ZGC Campus. Ring Building 28,
> ZhongGuanCun Software Park,No.8 Dong Bei Wang West Road, Haidian District,
> Beijing P.R.China 100193
>
> IBM环宇大厦
> 北京市海淀区东北旺西路8号，中关村软件园28号楼
> 邮编:100193
>
>
>
>
>
> ----- Original message -----
> From: Jeff Berry <jeff.be...@mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk>
> To: xCAT Users Mailing list <xcat-user@lists.sourceforge.net>
> Cc:
> Subject: Re: [xcat-user] SciLinux 7.4 statelite problems
> Date: Mon, Jun 18, 2018 5:36 PM
>
>
> Hi everyone,
>
>
>
> thanks for the pointers. I decided to go back to the very beginning and did
> a clean reinstall of xcat:
>
> Version 2.14.1 (git commit 70d6e7f93cc9714a127c22df2e7ca53d4996a34c, built
> Fri Jun 1 03:00:53 EDT 2018)
>
>
>
> then I walked through the documentation -
> https://xcat-docs.readthedocs.io/en/stable - and it works slighly better now.
> I’m no longer getting udev errors, but I’m still getting journald errors:
>
> code killed, status 6/ABRT
>
> on restart ‘/run/log/journal/<string>/system.journal corrupted or uncleanly
> shut down.
>
>
>
> which looks like it might be a space/memory issue?
>
>
>
> In any case, even just after boot, I have the same problem where I can’t ssh
> to the node or rcons, or even get a console prompt on the drac card (it’s a
> dell C6420). It’s pingable at the correct ip address.
>
>
>
> As per the email below, I checked the image for pkglist, exlist, and
> postinall:
>
>
>
> Object name: SL7.4-statelite-v1
>
> exlist=/opt/xcat/share/xcat/netboot/rh/compute.rhels7.x86_64.exlist
>
> imagetype=linux
>
> osarch=x86_64
>
> osdistroname=SL7.4-x86_64
>
> osname=Linux
>
> osvers=SL7.4
>
> otherpkgdir=/install/post/otherpkgs/SL7.4/x86_64
>
> permission=755
>
> pkgdir=/install/SL7.4/x86_64
>
> pkglist=/opt/xcat/share/xcat/netboot/rh/compute.rhels7.x86_64.pkglist
>
>
> postinstall=/opt/xcat/share/xcat/netboot/rh/compute.rhels7.x86_64.postinstall
>
> profile=compute
>
> provmethod=statelite
>
> rootimgdir=/install/netboot/SL7.4/x86_64/compute
>
>
>
> I had a brief moment where I thought it might be an selinux problem, but in
> the rootimg selinux is disabled in /etc/selinux/config ...
>
> the litefile is standard, but I’m thinking that I might change /var and /run
> to persistent to see if I can some extra insight into what’s happening on the
> node.
>
> #image,file,options,comments,disable
>
> "ALL","/etc/adjtime","tmpfs",,
>
> "ALL","/etc/securetty","tmpfs",,
>
> "ALL","/etc/lvm/","tmpfs",,
>
> "ALL","/etc/ntp.conf","tmpfs",,
>
> "ALL","/etc/rsyslog.conf","tmpfs",,
>
> "ALL","/etc/rsyslog.conf.XCATORIG","tmpfs",,
>
> "ALL","/etc/udev/","tmpfs",,
>
> "ALL","/etc/ntp.conf.predhclient","tmpfs",,
>
> "ALL","/etc/resolv.conf","tmpfs",,
>
> "ALL","/etc/yp.conf","tmpfs",,
>
> "ALL","/etc/resolv.conf.predhclient","tmpfs",,
>
> "ALL","/etc/sysconfig/","tmpfs",,
>
> "ALL","/etc/ssh/","tmpfs",,
>
> "ALL","/etc/inittab","tmpfs",,
>
> "ALL","/tmp/","tmpfs",,
>
> "ALL","/var/","tmpfs",,
>
> "ALL","/opt/xcat/","tmpfs",,
>
> "ALL","/xcatpost/","tmpfs",,
>
> "ALL","/etc/systemd/system/multi-user.target.wants/","tmpfs",,
>
> "ALL","/root/.ssh/","tmpfs",,
>
> "ALL","/etc/rc3.d/","tmpfs",,
>
> "ALL","/etc/rc2.d/","tmpfs",,
>
> "ALL","/etc/rc4.d/","tmpfs",,
>
> "ALL","/etc/rc5.d/","tmpfs",,
>
>
>
> I’m booting with rd.debug and rd.break=cleanup, but I don’t get a shell – I
> think because the root image *is* mounting.
>
>
>
> As I said, thanks for the thoughts, and I just wanted to make sure that
> people know that I appreciate the input,
>
>
>
> Best,
>
>
>
> Jeff Berry
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> From: Yuan Y Bai [mailto:by...@cn.ibm.com]
> Sent: 12 June 2018 10:01
> To: xcat-user@lists.sourceforge.net
> Cc: xcat-user@lists.sourceforge.net
> Subject: Re: [xcat-user] SciLinux 7.4 statelite problems
>
>
>
> Hi Jeff,
>
>
>
> Could you check your osimage definition about exlist, pkglist and postinstall?
>
> We do not formal ship compute.SL7.pkglist, we user the same files for rhels7.
> so could you try to use the rhels7 related files for your osimage?
>
>
>
> Here I give you an example for osimage, you can find the right arch files
> under /opt/xcat/share/xcat/netboot/rh/:
>
> ]# lsdef -t osimage rhels7.4-x86_64-statelite-compute -i
> exlist,pkglist,postinstall
> Object name: rhels7.4-x86_64-statelite-compute
> exlist=/opt/xcat/share/xcat/netboot/rh/compute.rhels7.x86_64.exlist
> pkglist=/opt/xcat/share/xcat/netboot/rh/compute.rhels7.x86_64.pkglist
>
> postinstall=/opt/xcat/share/xcat/netboot/rh/compute.rhels7.x86_64.postinstall
>
>
>
>
>
> "Failing to install mlx_en", I got the same message when there is no mlx in
> my system.
>
>
>
>
>
> Best Regards
> --------------------------------------------------
> Yuan Bai (白媛)
>
> CSTL HPC System Management Development
> Tel:86-10-82451401
> E-mail: by...@cn.ibm.com
> Address: IBM ZGC Campus. Ring Building 28,
> ZhongGuanCun Software Park,No.8 Dong Bei Wang West Road, Haidian District,
> Beijing P.R.China 100193
>
> IBM环宇大厦
> 北京市海淀区东北旺西路8号，中关村软件园28号楼
> 邮编:100193
>
>
>
>
>
> ----- Original message -----
> From: Jeff Berry <jeff.be...@mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk>
> To: xCAT Users Mailing list <xcat-user@lists.sourceforge.net>
> Cc:
> Subject: [xcat-user] SciLinux 7.4 statelite problems
> Date: Tue, Jun 12, 2018 4:25 PM
>
>
> Good morning all,
>
>
>
> I’m still wrestling with a SciLinux 7.4 statelite deployment with xcat
> 2.13.11. The dracut hooks don’t seem to be working properly, which is both
> making it difficult to debug and also probably symptomatic of a larger
> problem. Running genimage, a few things have caught my eye.
>
>
>
> The package list is looking for busybox-anaconda, which doesn’t seem to exist
> for SciLinux 7. A bit of poking seems to suggest that it is deprecated, but
> it’s not clear to me what a suitable replacement might be. Is there a
> preferred solution/workaround?
>
>
>
> The dracut install also is throwing a couple of errors. Failing to install
> mlx_en is, I think, benign. I am also getting this error: “dracut-install:
> ERROR: installing '/etc/udev/udev.conf'” which seems like it might be more
> significant, especially in light of my dracut problems. However, I don’t
> know what might be causing this problem, nor how to fix it.
>
>
>
> Any insight will be latched upon to with unseemly haste,
>
>
>
> Jeff Berry
>
> MRC-CBSU, Cambridge
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