Re: failing debootstrap
On Thu, 02 Feb 2017, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > On 02/02/2017 05:00 PM, Yaroslav Halchenko wrote: > > any ideas on how to mitigate this problem would be most welcome! > We did have some problems with LVM on sparc64, but I thought those > were mitigated now, see [1]. > Did you try investigating the current LVM setup with lvscan? isn't a problem somewhere "below" LVM level, since even partitions are not visible (so no swap, which is not under LVM's control)? or LVM somehow could remove those partition drives? For me I am just getting # lvscan --verbose ACTIVE'/dev/disks/debian' [127.34 GiB] inherit BTW -- mdstat reports using entire (?) drives whenever only a partition on each drive was given to md: root@sparky:/home/yoh# pvdisplay --- Physical volume --- PV Name /dev/md0 VG Name disks PV Size 127.35 GiB / not usable 1.31 MiB Allocatable yes (but full) PE Size 4.00 MiB Total PE 32600 Free PE 0 Allocated PE 32600 PV UUID kk1bpa-GzIa-J2dr-Rg3s-goiP-67p6-BoOzAV root@sparky:/home/yoh# cat /proc/mdstat Personalities : [raid1] [linear] [multipath] [raid0] [raid6] [raid5] [raid4] [raid10] md0 : active raid1 sdb[1] sda[0] 133530944 blocks super 1.2 [2/2] [UU] bitmap: 1/1 pages [8KB], 65536KB chunk unused devices: root@sparky:/home/yoh# fdisk -l /dev/sda Disk /dev/sda: 136.7 GiB, 146810536448 bytes, 286739329 sectors Geometry: 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 17848 cylinders Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes Disklabel type: sun Device Start End Sectors Size Id Type Flags /dev/sda1 0 267193079 267193080 127.4G fd Linux raid autodetect /dev/sda2 267193080 269153009 1959930 957M 1 Boot /dev/sda3 0 286728119 286728120 136.7G 5 Whole disk /dev/sda4 269153010 286728119 17575110 8.4G 82 Linux swap -- Yaroslav O. Halchenko Center for Open Neuroscience http://centerforopenneuroscience.org Dartmouth College, 419 Moore Hall, Hinman Box 6207, Hanover, NH 03755 Phone: +1 (603) 646-9834 Fax: +1 (603) 646-1419 WWW: http://www.linkedin.com/in/yarik
Re: failing debootstrap
On 02/02/2017 05:00 PM, Yaroslav Halchenko wrote: > any ideas on how to mitigate this problem would be most welcome! We did have some problems with LVM on sparc64, but I thought those were mitigated now, see [1]. Did you try investigating the current LVM setup with lvscan? Adrian > [1] https://lists.debian.org/debian-sparc/2016/02/msg00022.html -- .''`. John Paul Adrian Glaubitz : :' : Debian Developer - glaub...@debian.org `. `' Freie Universitaet Berlin - glaub...@physik.fu-berlin.de `-GPG: 62FF 8A75 84E0 2956 9546 0006 7426 3B37 F5B5 F913
Re: failing debootstrap
On Fri, 27 Jan 2017, Yaroslav Halchenko wrote: > I am enjoying partial success with installing sparc64 on ultrasparc T5140. > used installer cd from last may. interesting > glitch is that system when booted doesn't see any partitioning of the > drives -- only LVM volume for the / is available > this precludes enabling swaps and mounting /boot > here is how it looks: > root@sparky:/tmp# fdisk -l /dev/sd[ab] > Disk /dev/sda: 136.7 GiB, 146810536448 bytes, 286739329 sectors > Geometry: 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 17848 cylinders > Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes > Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes > I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes > Disklabel type: sun > Device Start End Sectors Size Id Type Flags > /dev/sda1 0 267193079 267193080 127.4G fd Linux raid autodetect > /dev/sda2 267193080 269153009 1959930 957M 1 Boot > /dev/sda3 0 286728119 286728120 136.7G 5 Whole disk > /dev/sda4 269153010 286728119 17575110 8.4G 82 Linux swap > >...< > root@sparky:/tmp# ls -ld /dev/sd* > brw-rw 1 root disk 8, 0 Jan 26 09:28 /dev/sda > brw-rw 1 root disk 8, 16 Jan 26 09:28 /dev/sdb > any clues how to mitigate or what is possibly wrong? any ideas on how to mitigate this problem would be most welcome! -- Yaroslav O. Halchenko Center for Open Neuroscience http://centerforopenneuroscience.org Dartmouth College, 419 Moore Hall, Hinman Box 6207, Hanover, NH 03755 Phone: +1 (603) 646-9834 Fax: +1 (603) 646-1419 WWW: http://www.linkedin.com/in/yarik
Re: failing debootstrap
On Mon, 23 Jan 2017, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > > So installation was completed ok and the beast rebooted but doesn't boot > > (see > > below the transcript from the screen). May be the reason is my obnoxious (I > > guess I like that word that much to use twice) partitioning > > 2 drives partitioned (RAID part + swap part) -> MD RAID1 -> LVM -> / (ext3) > > So may be SILO just can't find/boot from such an abomination and I should > > have > > created a small boot partition for it first? > Exactly. As long as you're using SILO, your boot partition should be on a > plain > and simple ext3 partition to avoid any issues. > You can try to install grub2 from the "unreleased" repository manually during > the installation by opening a shell from the debian-installer, chrooting into > /target, running "apt update && apt install grub2". But I haven't tested this > _at all_, so I can't tell if this works or not. > However, any tests with the +sparc64 grub2 version from "unreleased" are > highly > appreciated and welcome on the list. I was weak -- having seen some discussions on the list with grub2 issues I just went first old SILO way. It was quite a bit painful to have drive repartitioned since changes to the partitioning were not picked up by the kernel unless I rebooted it and I was trying to split swap partition into boot and swap two partitions. And after installation succeeded and boot went on, the problem is as I have reported on IRC: I am enjoying partial success with installing sparc64 on ultrasparc T5140. used installer cd from last may. interesting glitch is that system when booted doesn't see any partitioning of the drives -- only LVM volume for the / is available this precludes enabling swaps and mounting /boot here is how it looks: root@sparky:/tmp# fdisk -l /dev/sd[ab] Disk /dev/sda: 136.7 GiB, 146810536448 bytes, 286739329 sectors Geometry: 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 17848 cylinders Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes Disklabel type: sun Device Start End Sectors Size Id Type Flags /dev/sda1 0 267193079 267193080 127.4G fd Linux raid autodetect /dev/sda2 267193080 269153009 1959930 957M 1 Boot /dev/sda3 0 286728119 286728120 136.7G 5 Whole disk /dev/sda4 269153010 286728119 17575110 8.4G 82 Linux swap Disk /dev/sdb: 136.7 GiB, 146810536448 bytes, 286739329 sectors Geometry: 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 17848 cylinders Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes Disklabel type: sun Device Start End Sectors Size Id Type Flags /dev/sdb1 0 267193079 267193080 127.4G fd Linux raid autodetect /dev/sdb2 267193080 286728119 19535040 9.3G 82 Linux swap /dev/sdb3 0 286728119 286728120 136.7G 5 Whole disk root@sparky:/tmp# ls -l /dev/disk/by-uuid/ total 0 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 9 Jan 26 09:36 2016-05-04-14-13-13-00 -> ../../sr0 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 Jan 26 09:28 70cd7f29-78c4-4907-9101-ffdc2a7c8582 -> ../../dm-0 root@sparky:/tmp# ls -l /dev/disk/by-id/ total 0 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 Jan 26 09:28 dm-name-disks-debian -> ../../dm-0 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 Jan 26 09:28 dm-uuid-LVM-SHQBSSnkYpgqZEVBwqjrJHNngR3xnryCTemrrQ6v4auqKYt71XZcNsFm1YDGoP4b -> ../../dm-0 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 9 Jan 26 09:28 lvm-pv-uuid-kk1bpa-GzIa-J2dr-Rg3s-goiP-67p6-BoOzAV -> ../../md0 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 9 Jan 26 09:28 md-name-megaspark:0 -> ../../md0 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 9 Jan 26 09:28 md-uuid-72005f8f:6bb79fc7:44b4d997:897c735a -> ../../md0 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 9 Jan 26 09:28 scsi-35000c5000f3e0453 -> ../../sda lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 9 Jan 26 09:28 scsi-35000c5000f3e9697 -> ../../sdb lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 9 Jan 26 09:36 usb-TSSTcorp_CD_DVDW_TS-T632A_B030B0D6311A-0:0 -> ../../sr0 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 9 Jan 26 09:28 wwn-0x5000c5000f3e0453 -> ../../sda lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 9 Jan 26 09:28 wwn-0x5000c5000f3e9697 -> ../../sdb root@sparky:/tmp# ls -ld /dev/sd* brw-rw 1 root disk 8, 0 Jan 26 09:28 /dev/sda brw-rw 1 root disk 8, 16 Jan 26 09:28 /dev/sdb kernel: 4.5.0-2-sparc64-smp any clues how to mitigate or what is possibly wrong? PS please CC me in replies -- Yaroslav O. Halchenko Center for Open Neuroscience http://centerforopenneuroscience.org Dartmouth College, 419 Moore Hall, Hinman Box 6207, Hanover, NH 03755 Phone: +1 (603) 646-9834 Fax: +1 (603) 646-1419 WWW: http://www.linkedin.com/in/yarik
Re: failing debootstrap
On Mon, 23 Jan 2017, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > > So installation was completed ok and the beast rebooted but doesn't boot > > (see > > below the transcript from the screen). May be the reason is my obnoxious (I > > guess I like that word that much to use twice) partitioning > > 2 drives partitioned (RAID part + swap part) -> MD RAID1 -> LVM -> / (ext3) > > So may be SILO just can't find/boot from such an abomination and I should > > have > > created a small boot partition for it first? > Exactly. As long as you're using SILO, your boot partition should be on a > plain > and simple ext3 partition to avoid any issues. > You can try to install grub2 from the "unreleased" repository manually during > the installation by opening a shell from the debian-installer, chrooting into > /target, running "apt update && apt install grub2". But I haven't tested this > _at all_, so I can't tell if this works or not. > However, any tests with the +sparc64 grub2 version from "unreleased" are > highly > appreciated and welcome on the list. since I might end up just redoing the whole installation (to repartition more or less sanely), I will give this one a shot first and report back. Thanks! -- Yaroslav O. Halchenko Center for Open Neuroscience http://centerforopenneuroscience.org Dartmouth College, 419 Moore Hall, Hinman Box 6207, Hanover, NH 03755 Phone: +1 (603) 646-9834 Fax: +1 (603) 646-1419 WWW: http://www.linkedin.com/in/yarik
Re: failing debootstrap
On 01/23/2017 04:09 PM, Yaroslav Halchenko wrote: > So installation was completed ok and the beast rebooted but doesn't boot (see > below the transcript from the screen). May be the reason is my obnoxious (I > guess I like that word that much to use twice) partitioning > > 2 drives partitioned (RAID part + swap part) -> MD RAID1 -> LVM -> / (ext3) > > So may be SILO just can't find/boot from such an abomination and I should have > created a small boot partition for it first? Exactly. As long as you're using SILO, your boot partition should be on a plain and simple ext3 partition to avoid any issues. You can try to install grub2 from the "unreleased" repository manually during the installation by opening a shell from the debian-installer, chrooting into /target, running "apt update && apt install grub2". But I haven't tested this _at all_, so I can't tell if this works or not. However, any tests with the +sparc64 grub2 version from "unreleased" are highly appreciated and welcome on the list. Thanks, Adrian -- .''`. John Paul Adrian Glaubitz : :' : Debian Developer - glaub...@debian.org `. `' Freie Universitaet Berlin - glaub...@physik.fu-berlin.de `-GPG: 62FF 8A75 84E0 2956 9546 0006 7426 3B37 F5B5 F913
Re: failing debootstrap
On Wed, 18 Jan 2017, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
> Hi Yaroslav!
> On 01/18/2017 04:09 AM, Yaroslav Halchenko wrote:
> > followed https://wiki.debian.org/Sparc64
> > and grabbed
> > https://people.debian.org/~glaubitz/debian-cd/2016-12-13/debian-9.0-sparc64-NETINST-1.iso
> > image. After figuring out how to boot the beast off cd, went ahead with
> > partitioning (software raid, lvm, ext3) and install base system. That
> > is the step which failed. Log (4th screen) ends with:
> We have had multiple reports that there are issues with the latest images.
> Could you try this older image from May and report back?
> > https://people.debian.org/~glaubitz/debian-cd/2016-05-04/
Hi Adrian
and sorry for a delay with the reply.Here is a brief report/new problem
statement ;)
I have burnt image from 2016/05/04 and proceeded through installation much
smoother than before:
- having basic dialog black and white interface without obnoxious redrawing the
screen in ANSI coloring over serial comm was much more usable!!
- having said that I somewhat missed the use of "screen" which was present in
the most recent installer -- so I had to go to menu item for shell to perform
any of the items in the shell
- thanks to louis ayotte's feedback (off-list comm) I was ready to
- specify http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian-ports/ mirror whenever
installer just asked for some mirror to use
- fetch newer keyring
https://packages.debian.org/sid/all/debian-keyring/download
and still had to fetch/apt-key add the key
So installation was completed ok and the beast rebooted but doesn't boot (see
below the transcript from the screen). May be the reason is my obnoxious (I
guess I like that word that much to use twice) partitioning
2 drives partitioned (RAID part + swap part) -> MD RAID1 -> LVM -> / (ext3)
So may be SILO just can't find/boot from such an abomination and I should have
created a small boot partition for it first?
Captured in the terminal (screen session):
┌─┤ Finishing the installation ├──┐
│ │
│ 95% │
│ │
The system is going down NOW!ystem... │
Sent SIGTERM to all processes │
Sent SIGKILL to all processes───┘
Requesting system reboot
[20848.293056] reboot: Restarting system
!!! LPe11000-M4 Fcode, Copyright (c) 2000-2007 Emulex !!! Version 3.01a1
!!! LPe11000-M4 Fcode, Copyright (c) 2000-2007 Emulex !!! Version 3.01a1
T5140, No Keyboard
Copyright (c) 1998, 2011, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved.
OpenBoot 4.33.0.b, 48928 MB memory available, Serial #83064236.
Ethernet address 0:14:4f:f3:75:ac, Host ID: 84f375ac.
Boot device: disk File and args:
The file just loaded does not appear to be executable.
{0} ok boot disk
!!! LPe11000-M4 Fcode, Copyright (c) 2000-2007 Emulex !!! Version 3.01a1
!!! LPe11000-M4 Fcode, Copyright (c) 2000-2007 Emulex !!! Version 3.01a1
T5140, No Keyboard
Copyright (c) 1998, 2011, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved.
OpenBoot 4.33.0.b, 48928 MB memory available, Serial #83064236.
Ethernet address 0:14:4f:f3:75:ac, Host ID: 84f375ac.
Boot device: /pci@400/pci@0/pci@8/scsi@0/disk@0 File and args:
The file just loaded does not appear to be executable.
{0} ok probe-scsi-all
This command may hang the system if a Stop-A or halt command
has been executed. Please type reset-all to reset the system
before executing this command.
Do you wish to continue? (y/n) y
/pci@500/pci@0/pci@9/lpfc@0
Cannot Init Link.
/pci@400/pci@0/pci@c/lpfc@0
Cannot Init Link.
/pci@400/pci@0/pci@8/scsi@0
MPT Version 1.05, Firmware Version 1.27.00.00
Target 0
Unit 0 Disk SEAGATE ST914602SSUN146G0603286739329 Blocks, 146 GB
SASAddress 5000c5000f3e0451 PhyNum 0
Target 3
Unit 0 Disk SEAGATE ST914602SSUN146G0603286739329 Blocks, 146 GB
SASAddress 5000c5000f3e9695 PhyNum 3
/pci@400/pci@0/pci@1/pci@0/usb@0,2/storage@2
Unit 0 Removable Read Only deviceTSSTcorpCD/DVDW TS-T632ASR03
--
Yaroslav O. Halchenko
Center for Open Neuroscience http://centerforopenneuroscience.org
Dartmouth College, 419 Moore Hall, Hinman Box 6207, Hanover, NH 03755
Phone: +1 (603) 646-9834 Fax: +1 (603) 646-1419
WWW: http://www.linkedin.com/in/yarik
Re: failing debootstrap
Hi Yaroslav! On 01/18/2017 04:09 AM, Yaroslav Halchenko wrote: > followed https://wiki.debian.org/Sparc64 > and grabbed > https://people.debian.org/~glaubitz/debian-cd/2016-12-13/debian-9.0-sparc64-NETINST-1.iso > image. After figuring out how to boot the beast off cd, went ahead with > partitioning (software raid, lvm, ext3) and install base system. That > is the step which failed. Log (4th screen) ends with: We have had multiple reports that there are issues with the latest images. Could you try this older image from May and report back? > https://people.debian.org/~glaubitz/debian-cd/2016-05-04/ THanks, Adrian -- .''`. John Paul Adrian Glaubitz : :' : Debian Developer - glaub...@debian.org `. `' Freie Universitaet Berlin - glaub...@physik.fu-berlin.de `-GPG: 62FF 8A75 84E0 2956 9546 0006 7426 3B37 F5B5 F913
failing debootstrap
Hi Sparc gurus, I finally got a "new" sparc box to replace passed away previous one some SunFire IIRC, which I use for upstream CI on big-endians. I have got now an UltraSparc T2 with 48GB of RAM -- whoohoo followed https://wiki.debian.org/Sparc64 and grabbed https://people.debian.org/~glaubitz/debian-cd/2016-12-13/debian-9.0-sparc64-NETINST-1.iso image. After figuring out how to boot the beast off cd, went ahead with partitioning (software raid, lvm, ext3) and install base system. That is the step which failed. Log (4th screen) ends with: ... Jan 18 02:50:20 main-menu[228]: (process:3771): /lib/partman/fstab.d/zfs: Jan 18 02:50:20 main-menu[228]: (process:3771): line 49: Jan 18 02:50:20 main-menu[228]: (process:3771): zpool: not found Jan 18 02:50:20 main-menu[228]: (process:3771): Jan 18 02:50:20 main-menu[228]: (process:3771): /bin/block-attr: Jan 18 02:50:20 main-menu[228]: (process:3771): line 33: Jan 18 02:50:20 main-menu[228]: (process:3771): blkid: not found Jan 18 02:50:20 main-menu[228]: (process:3771): Jan 18 02:50:20 main-menu[228]: (process:3771): /bin/block-attr: Jan 18 02:50:20 main-menu[228]: (process:3771): line 33: Jan 18 02:50:20 main-menu[228]: (process:3771): blkid: not found Jan 18 02:50:20 main-menu[228]: (process:3771): Jan 18 02:50:23 main-menu[228]: DEBUG: resolver (libgcc1): package doesn't exist (ignored) Jan 18 02:50:23 main-menu[228]: INFO: Falling back to the package description for brltty-udeb Jan 18 02:50:23 main-menu[228]: INFO: Falling back to the package description for brltty-udeb Jan 18 02:50:23 main-menu[228]: INFO: Menu item 'bootstrap-base' selected Jan 18 02:51:13 debootstrap: mknod: /target/dev/null: No such file or directory if you try to rerun installation of the base system, it fails in other miserable ways: Jan 18 03:08:55 debootstrap: tar: can't open './usr/share/doc/gcc-6-base/README.Debian.sparc64.gz': File exists any clues on how to overcome or recommendations on another image/release to use on the beast Thanks in advance and please keep me CCed -- Yaroslav O. Halchenko Center for Open Neuroscience http://centerforopenneuroscience.org Dartmouth College, 419 Moore Hall, Hinman Box 6207, Hanover, NH 03755 Phone: +1 (603) 646-9834 Fax: +1 (603) 646-1419 WWW: http://www.linkedin.com/in/yarik
