Re: [xcat-user] anaconda: DEBUG Gtk cannot be initialized

[Song BJ Yang]

What is the osimage definition? if you are provisioning rh7/centos7 and using customized partition file with disk specified with /dev/sdx, the sdx disk name is not persistent across reboots, as well as installer and the booted up system

 

another hint is to enable xcatdebug mode by changing site.xcatdebugmode=2, then retrovision the node, then you can ssh into anaconda to obtain more info on what happened.

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----- Original message -----
From: Sandra Maksimovic <sandra.maksimo...@mcri.edu.au>
To: "xcat-user@lists.sourceforge.net" <xcat-user@lists.sourceforge.net>
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Subject: [xcat-user] anaconda: DEBUG Gtk cannot be initialized
Date: Fri, Mar 15, 2019 11:12 AM
 

Hi all,

 

While attempting to build an r720 host with 2 configured physical disks (sda,sdb) I continually receive the following kinds of errors (I’ve also included some suspicious messages higher up in the log):

 

blivet: DEBUG  partitions: []

blivet: DEBUG  checking whether disk sda has an empty extended

blivet: DEBUG  IGNORED:          Caught exception, continuing.

blivet: DEBUG  IGNORED:          Begin exception details.

blivet: DEBUG  IGNORED:              Traceback (most recent call last):

blivet: DEBUG  IGNORED:                File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/blivet/formats/disklabel.py", line 348, in extendedPartition

blivet: DEBUG  IGNORED:                  extended = self.partedDisk.getExtendedPartition()

blivet: DEBUG  IGNORED:              AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'getExtendedPartition'

blivet: DEBUG  IGNORED:          End exception details.

blivet: DEBUG  IGNORED:          Caught exception, continuing.

blivet: DEBUG  IGNORED:          Begin exception details.

blivet: DEBUG  IGNORED:              Traceback (most recent call last):

blivet: DEBUG  IGNORED:                File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/blivet/formats/disklabel.py", line 357, in logicalPartitions

blivet: DEBUG  IGNORED:                  logicals = self.partedDisk.getLogicalPartitions()

blivet: DEBUG  IGNORED:              AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'getLogicalPartitions'

blivet: DEBUG  IGNORED:          End exception details.

blivet: DEBUG  extended is None ; logicals is []

blivet: DEBUG  checking whether disk sdb has an empty extended

blivet: DEBUG  extended is None ; logicals is []

blivet: DEBUG          DeviceTree.getDependentDevices: dep: existing 1786.5 GiB disk sdb (9) with existing msdos disklabel ; hidden: False ;

…

(the rest of the stuff about sdb seems OK so leaving it out)

…

anaconda: DEBUG  running handleException

anaconda: CRIT  Traceback (most recent call last):#012#012  File "/sbin/anaconda", line 1374, in <module>#012    anaconda._intf.setup(ksdata)#012#012  File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/pyanaconda/ui/tui/__init__.py", line 171, in setup#012    should_schedule = obj.setup(self.ENVIRONMENT)#012#012  File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/pyanaconda/ui/tui/hubs/summary.py", line 64, in setup#012    spoke.execute()#012#012  File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/pyanaconda/ui/tui/spokes/storage.py", line 439, in execute#012    doKickstartStorage(self.storage, self.data, self.instclass)#012#012  File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/pyanaconda/kickstart.py", line 2529, in doKickstartStorage#012    ksdata.partition.execute(storage, ksdata, instClass)#012#012  File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/pyanaconda/kickstart.py", line 1268, in execute#012    doPartitioning(storage)#012#012  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/blivet/partitioning.py", line 974, in doPartitioning#012    allocatePartitions(storage, disks, partitions, free)#012#012  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/blivet/partitioning.py", line 1101, in allocatePartitions#012    disklabel = disklabels[_disk.path]#012#012KeyError: u'/dev/sda'

anaconda: DEBUG  Gtk cannot be initialized

anaconda: DEBUG  In the main thread, running exception handler

anaconda: INFO  Running kickstart %%onerror script(s)

anaconda: INFO  All kickstart %%onerror script(s) have been run

anaconda: INFO  Running kickstart %%traceback script(s)

anaconda: INFO  All kickstart %%traceback script(s) have been run

 

The weird thing is the node was building properly prior to reverting a small postscript change I had made yesterday, so I am not quite sure why this issue would be occurring now. I also went ahead and re-did the RAID controller setup on this host, as well as trying out various other configurations in the kickstart file (e.g. excluding /dev/sda from the config altogether, etc...) but so far it has not made a difference.

 

Just wondering if anyone has encountered the issue before, or could perhaps suggest another investigatorial path…?

 

Prior to re-configuring the RAID I was experiencing the following errors (if it’s helpful):

 

Not enough space in file systems for the current software selection. An additional XXXX MiB is needed.

 

and..

 

keyerror: u'/dev/sda'

Thanks,

Sandra Maksimovic
Systems Administrator
Information Technology
 
Murdoch Children's Research Institute
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