Hey Erich,
I think you've got it, the image is actually the cluster headnode,
imaged off of another box.. I'm a heavy systemimager user well before I
even heard of Oscar.
apt-get remove systemimager-client systemconfigurator
also cleans them out, or a number of other things.. but that's a
developer/experienced sysadmin thinking, where Oscar's mandate is more
to get the lay-users and researchers able to build their own clusters,
and not have to worry about little things like this, or at least detect
the error, and give the user some sort of reasonable fix?
This could be done in the setup script for each package.. check if there
is a conflict on the system, and suggest to the user a resolution (if it
doesn't just do it automatically?)
Erich Focht wrote:
Hi Paul,
I had some difficulties to understand the problem as you were talking of a
preinstalled systemimager on an _image_, but I think you actually meant that
you start th eOSCAR install on a master node with pre-installed systemimager.
This situation was not foreseen, as far as I can tell. In fact we cannot
guarantee that the OSCAR RPMs will allways be of the newest and latest
version, such that they will update those which are already installed. A mix
of OSCAR and non-OSCAR RPMs for SIS would most probably break things.
Besides, the installation seems to not try to update already installed
packages. We should try to fix this in future.
As a quick fix I would recommend you to run scripts/start_over before starting
the install_cluster script. This should remove all OSCAR-alike RPMs from the
system.
Regards,
Erich
On Wednesday 07 December 2005 06:09, Paul Greidanus wrote:
I just ran into a troublesome little problem, and I was thinking of what
the best way to deal with it would be?
I'm using systemimager, installed as stable into the image before it
touches oscar, so that I can revert it to stock really easily. When I
install oscar, I get a conflict with the already installed oscar
version... I know enough to pull it out, but is there a better way to
handle this in the code? Check for existing packages, and upgrade them?
I filed a bug on this... might not be the best plan though, probably
needs discussion on the list.
OS distro is Scientific Linux 4.2, but should be a common problem across
anything with systemimager/systemconfigurator installed.
https://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1375029&group_id=9368&atid=109368
-------------------------------------------------------
This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Do you grep through log files
for problems? Stop! Download the new AJAX search engine that makes
searching your log files as easy as surfing the web. DOWNLOAD SPLUNK!
http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=7637&alloc_id=16865&op=click
_______________________________________________
Oscar-devel mailing list
[email protected]
https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/oscar-devel
--
Paul Greidanus
CAD Administrator / Systems Administrator
Center of Excellence in Integrated Nanotools University of Alberta
[EMAIL PROTECTED] 780-492-7368
http://www.cein.ualberta.ca
-------------------------------------------------------
This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Do you grep through log files
for problems? Stop! Download the new AJAX search engine that makes
searching your log files as easy as surfing the web. DOWNLOAD SPLUNK!
http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=7637&alloc_id=16865&op=click
_______________________________________________
Oscar-devel mailing list
[email protected]
https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/oscar-devel
