Thanks for the reply. I knew about one of the logs. I didn't know about the others. Keeping a note of that for future reference.
In the end, it turned out that when I added a Mellanox post install script, a bad character got into the chdef command, so mlnxofedinstall didn't know what I wanted to do, and stopped. On Mon, Apr 8, 2019 at 4:00 AM Song BJ Yang <yang...@cn.ibm.com> wrote: > Hi, > > `sleep 36500d` means there are fatal error in the post install phase, and > xcat make the installer stop there for further field debug. > > You can search `sleep 36500d` in `/install/autoinst/<node>` on MN for the > possible fatal errors and relevant log messages that can make the > post-installation phase run into such situation. > > You can find out the root cause with either of the following hints: > > 1. look into `/var/log/xcat/computes.log` on MN for the fatal error log > messages > 2. if you can ssh to the installer, look into > /mnt/sysimage/var/log/xcat/xcat.log inside installer for the fatal error > log messages > 3. if you cannot ssh the installer, you can `rinstall <cn> boot` to reboot > the node , and look into /var/log/xcat/xcat.log for the fatal error log > messages > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > 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: aaronhc...@gmail.com > To: xcat-user@lists.sourceforge.net > Cc: > Subject: [xcat-user] Having issues with updates > Date: Fri, Apr 5, 2019 11:37 PM > > I've added an update repo to my template > > lsdef shows this: > > pkgdir=/install/rhels7.5/x86_64,/install/updates/rhels7.5/x86_64/ > > I saw during install that it's creating initramfs for kernel-3.10.0-957 > > But now with 'ps -ef' i'm seeing a process of sleep 36500d and the install > is not completing. > > Where did I go wrong? > _______________________________________________ > 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 >
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