Ivan Adzhubey wrote: > Hi DongInn, > > On Monday 16 April 2007 11:22:38 pm DongInn Kim wrote: > >> Hi Ivan, >> >> Ivan Adzhubey wrote: >> >>> Hi Michael, >>> >>> Ok, I downloaded and put all FC5 updates on the server node, updated >>> local fedora-5 repository, regenerated oscarimage and reimaged nodes. >>> This time it worked! Not a single rsync timeout anymore. So it was a >>> rsync bug, perhaps triggered by a particular combination of >>> hardware/kernel/drivers. >>> >>> Now I am having another problem, with SGE configuration on slave nodes >>> picking up the wrong server name. My server node has two network >>> interfaces, private and public one, pretty standard configuration. >>> Machine hostname is set to reflect public interface, not private one. >>> Now, SGE install scripts set qmaster hostname to that public name and SGE >>> execd daemons on slave nodes obviously fail to contact qmaster by this >>> name since they have no access to the public network. Easy to fix >>> manually but still I think this is a bug... >>> >> Are you installing the official OSCAR 5.0 on FC5? If so, can you please >> try to test it with trunk? >> A network configuration is a little bit polished and it may fix your >> problem. >> > > That's right, I used 5.0 release. I did think about giving 5.1 a try at some > point, after all the frustration with (non)rsyncing images, but eventually > went another route and upgraded FC5 instead... How close is 5.1 to release > status in your opinion? I was given a generous 3 days to upgrade our 24-node > cluster from OSCAR 4.0/FC2 to OSCAR5.0/FC5 and I have already spent 6 days, > so I am a bit short on time right now. However, I have a spare head node and > can borrow a couple of slave nodes for experiments so I might still try 5.1 > as well. > > Hard to tell right now. But it won't take a long time I hope. And also, we are going to release 5.0.1 much earlier than 5.1 and you can play with it if you want. >>> On Monday 16 April 2007 06:16:16 pm Michael Edwards wrote: >>> >>>> When you update rsync on the head node also update it on the image. >>>> >>>> copy the rpm into the image directory (probably something like >>>> /var/lib/systemimager/images/oscarimage/tmp) >>>> chroot /var/lib/systemimager/images/oscarimage >>>> install the rpm from /tmp in the new environment >>>> exit the chroot and try imaging the nodes >>>> >>>> I think there are some scripts to do this as well, but I haven't gotten >>>> around to learning how to use them yet :) >>>> >>> There are indeed, and reading the documentation can sometimes save you a >>> lot of time ;-). That said, OSCAR documentation is horrible. Not only it >>> is incomplete and fragmented, it also has a good number of typographic >>> errors in examples, that makes it look more like a puzzle. It was not >>> especially difficult to solve but I wonder why these outstanding errors >>> are still in there? It would take 5 minutes to fix them and regenerate >>> the PDF file... >>> >> Can you please forward to oscar-users@ list or me or more preferably >> Mike anything wrong you found in our documents? Please forgive me for my >> laziness. I am sure that your keen eyes will save a lot of time in >> updating the documents. >> > > Hmm, wouldn't it be easier to do it directly on wiki pages? I thought that's > what it is supposed to be for. By the way, some of the errors (not all of > them) are already corrected in main OSCAR wiki, so I was just wondering why > official documentation was not at least synced... > > Oh, I thought you were talking about the documents in our wiki too. Yeah, we will sync up the pdf documents with our wiki soon. :-)
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