As a side note, I was able to gen the image (which installs ganglia-gmond) then chroot into it and run 'systemctl enable gmond' and it created the symlink and started gmond on boot. However, I'd still like to know what we can do with the postinstall script for future use...
Thanks, Brian Joiner On Wed, Mar 6, 2019 at 3:52 PM Brian Joiner <martinitime1...@gmail.com> wrote: > Song, > > So configure the postinstall script with "systemctl start gmond"? > > On Tue, Mar 5, 2019 at 8:15 AM Song BJ Yang <yang...@cn.ibm.com> wrote: > >> the postscripts and postbootscripts are invoked on the [start] of a >> system service named "xcatpostinit1.service", since systemd start the >> services in parallel with consideration on dependency. There might be some >> kind of deadlock while trying to restart a service in another service. >> Someone has reported the similar situation >> https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/359941/starting-systemd-service-inside-systemd-service-causes-deadlock >> . >> What did you see on `journalctl -u xcatpostinit1` when it is hang? >> >> Back to your scenario @Brian, >> >The ganglia packages get installed in otherpkgs, and the ganglia >> postscript edits the /etc/ganglia/gmond.conf file with our custom cluster >> info and attempts to enable and start the service. >> >> For diskless node, it is not a good practice to install and configure >> packages with `otherpkgs` and `ospkgs` , the package should be installed >> in rootimg directory with `otherpkgdir` and `otherpkglist` attributes, and >> configured with `postinstall` scripts on genimage. >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> 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: Michael Robbert <mrobb...@mines.edu> >> To: "xcat-user@lists.sourceforge.net" <xcat-user@lists.sourceforge.net> >> Cc: >> Subject: Re: [xcat-user] Diskless postboot script unable to start gmond >> service >> Date: Tue, Mar 5, 2019 8:28 AM >> >> >> I'll note that I have seen similar problems with physical hosts and >> running a diskfull install. If I put a "systemctl start $servicename" in >> any of my postscripts they will hang during the postinstall process. I have >> taken to removing the start step and just enabling the service, then once >> I've determined that the postinstall is complete I just reboot the node and >> all services start as expected. I have seen it with gmond and slurmd so I >> know that it isn't specific to Ganglia. >> >> The other work around that I'm working on implementing is to move all the >> things that postscripts are doing to Ansible. >> >> Mike >> On 3/4/19 4:42 PM, Brian Joiner wrote: >> >> We're deploying diskless nodes in Vsphere and installing Ganglia >> monitoring tools. >> >> The ganglia packages get installed in otherpkgs, and the ganglia >> postscript edits the /etc/ganglia/gmond.conf file with our custom cluster >> info and attempts to enable and start the service. >> >> systemctl enable gmond works >> systemctl start gmond causes the script to hang, indefinitely, until I >> log into the node and kill it. Then the script completes and allows other >> postbootscripts to run. >> >> *Why is systemctl hanging on service start?* If we remove that command >> from the script, it completes but the service doesn't auto start, so manual >> intervention is required. Is this unique to a diskless install? We got >> around it by creating the gmond.service file and symlink in the rootimg dir >> of the diskless image, but were wondering if there's a way to get a service >> to start the normal way. >> >> HOST: Vsphere, diskless, >> Centos 7.5 >> Ganglia 3.7 >> xCAT 2.14 >> -- >> Thanks, >> Brian Joiner >> >> _______________________________________________ >> xCAT-user mailing list >> xCAT-user@lists.sourceforge.net >> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/xcat-user >> >> _______________________________________________ >> xCAT-user mailing list >> xCAT-user@lists.sourceforge.net >> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/xcat-user >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> xCAT-user mailing list >> xCAT-user@lists.sourceforge.net >> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/xcat-user >> > > > -- > Brian Joiner > -- Brian Joiner
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