Yang Song,
Could it be related to https://sourceforge.net/p/xcat/bugs/4579/
I checked the remoteshell script and is has /usr/sbin/sshd at the bottom,
so not sure what's happening.
On Fri, Aug 10, 2018 at 1:22 PM, Brian Joiner <martinitime1...@gmail.com>
wrote:
> Song,
>
> Yes there are otherpkgs that run after the reboot. I'll try to get the OS
> and node defs to you at some point today. The client did respond back
> after doing some investigation of his own:
>
> "..it appears that the script is running without a chroot and writing the
> files to the genimage transient file system." I did a further test by
> creating a 600 second sleep postscript, and found that the syncfiles are in
> the /etc/ but not in /mnt/sysimage/etc/
>
> I put a test file in /mnt/sysimage/etc/ and it survived the reboot. None
> of the 'syncfiles' were there, but my test file was.
>
> Why would syncfiles not write to the correct directory during deployment?
> I'm concerned that something didn't go right during the upgrade.
>
>
> Thanks,
> Brian Joiner
>
> On Thu, Aug 9, 2018 at 10:10 PM, Song BJ Yang <yang...@cn.ibm.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi Brian Joiner,
>>
>> is there any packages specified in `otherpkglist` and
>> `otherpkgdir`? which which will be installed by `otherpkgs` during the
>> post-installation reboot
>>
>>
>> would you please provide the osimage definition and node definition?
>> thanks
>> ------------------------------------------------------------
>> ------------------
>> YANG Song (杨嵩)
>> IBM China System Technology Laboratory
>> Tel: 86-10-82452903
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>>
>>
>> ----- Original message -----
>> From: Brian Joiner <martinitime1...@gmail.com>
>> To: xCAT Users Mailing list <xcat-user@lists.sourceforge.net>
>> Cc:
>> Subject: [xcat-user] Syncfiles getting deleted after reboot....
>> Date: Wed, Aug 8, 2018 8:31 AM
>>
>>
>> Hardware: Dell
>> Deployment OS: RHEL 6.8
>> No changes were made to OS definition, other than adding the syncfile list
>>
>>
>> Our client upgraded their xCAT version from 2.7 to 2.14.1 and we're
>> seeing some bizarre behavior when deploying the nodes.
>>
>> Just to make everything as clean as possible, I created a separate group
>> with no postscripts (so only the default postscripts run), and removed all
>> other post scripts and postbootscripts from the node definition.
>>
>> What's happening is: during initial deployment, 'syncfiles' copies over
>> files, I've verified that they exist with 'ls', then the normal post
>> install reboot occurs. After the reboot, all of the synced files are
>> GONE. Multiple files, in multiple directories (mostly in /etc). I even
>> created a dummy test file to make sure, and it's there during install but
>> not after the reboot. Syncfiles always exits with 0
>>
>> updatenode -F will resync the files, and they survive a reboot.
>>
>> This problem is so strange, I've never seen anything like it. Any ideas?
>>
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