Install Sun Java on etch
I just tried to install sun-jav5-jre with FAI on etch with softupdate. the hints in http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/msg02045.html helped a lot but didn't work (maybe because of etch) I ran into problems because debconf must ask for acceptance of java license. As aptitude runs in non-interactive mode it aborts installing java: sun-dlj-v1-1 license could not be presented try 'dpkg-reconfigure debconf' to select a frontend other than noninteractive dpkg: Fehler beim Bearbeiten I want to share the two hours of work to make it run smoothly. 1. You need to add "non-free" packages to your sources.list. I place it in a hook beacuse i must run it before instsoft runs $ cat hooks/softupdate.DEFAULT #!/bin/sh if ifclass JRE; then fcopy /etc/apt/sources.list | grep -q \. && apt-get update fi 2. Add sun-java5-jre to your packages_config file (just for documentation purpose, see 3.) $ cat conf/package_config/JRE PACKAGES aptitude sun-java5-jre 3. Add a hook to install it manually with a little trick: $ cat hooks/softupdate.JRE #!/bin/sh yes 'yes' | DEBIAN_FRONTEND=Readline apt-get install sun-java5-bin now everything runs non-interactively If you don't use softupdate rename your hooks accordingly. i hope it helps anyone. kind regards Janning
FAI kernel won't boot on certain boxes
Hi, the 2.6.18-kernel from fai-kernels-1.17 boots fine on most boxes. A recompilation with FC support also works fine. But both, the out-of-the-box kernel and the self-compiled kernel, won't boot on a certain variant of "transtec" Intel Celeron PC. It says "Loading vmlinuz-install..Ready." and dies. Any clues? An older FAI CD with kernel-2.6.8 works fine, so that I could even post the output of the SYSINFO task to you. ;) Regards, Frank.
Re: FAI kernel won't boot on certain boxes
> On Wed, 09 May 2007 18:12:43 +0200, Frank Doepper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > said: > But both, the out-of-the-box kernel and the self-compiled kernel, won't > boot on a certain variant of "transtec" Intel Celeron PC. It says > "Loading vmlinuz-install..Ready." and dies. Mmm. Which variant? I only know of problems with some e1000 cards, where the fai kernels hangs when doing DHCP request. You can also use a stock Debian kernel with initrd. Have a look at http://www.uni-koeln.de/bin2/maillist/linux-fai/20070105.220333/174065 -- regards Thomas
Re: FAI kernel won't boot on certain boxes
On 5/9/07, Thomas Lange <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: You can also use a stock Debian kernel with initrd. Have a look at http://www.uni-koeln.de/bin2/maillist/linux-fai/20070105.220333/174065 -- It depends - YMMV. When I tried this, I did not get all needed parameters through. Old notes I made in a mail draft as response to this thread, which I never sent because I never found the time again to check that further. " - saving logs on the right server could be changed by adding the LOGSERVER variable to fai.conf (and recreating the nfsroot, or also changing in nfsroot/etc/fai/fai,conf), but my system still tries to run fai-chboot on a server with the ip 1.2.3.4, which is the same as given on the kernel command line (but not used for ip config because dhcp is used later). - somehow the mounting of the config space takes a long while. I get portmap error messages. It seems, thet portmapper is not correctly run in this setup. - I am a bit confused about the problems with getting the installserver from dhcp... " So, in my opinion, this is a good idea to do it like this, and to get rid of the fai-kernels, but, at least when I last tried, it does not work nice and easy in the same way as it does with the fai-kernels. Have to investigate further, and maybe look if the problem might be solved in newer versions of the initrdtools. Henning
Re: Install Sun Java on etch
Hi Janning, On Wed, 9 May 2007 17:14:21 +0200, Janning Vygen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: ... >sun-dlj-v1-1 license could not be presented ... > 3. Add a hook to install it manually with a little trick: > > $ cat hooks/softupdate.JRE > #!/bin/sh > yes 'yes' | DEBIAN_FRONTEND=Readline apt-get install sun-java5-bin > > now everything runs non-interactively I ran into the same, but found a different solution. Yours seems more correct than mine, but I'd like to share it anyhow. First I did the interactive install and realised that my answer had been stored somewhere, because the 2nd time I was not asked to confirm again. I found it sitting in /var/cache/debconf/config.dat so I added the following to my hooks/instsoft.WORKSTATION - CONF=$FAI_ROOT/var/cache/debconf/config.dat if grep "^Name: shared/accepted-sun-dlj-v1-1" $CONF >/dev/null 2>&1; then echo "Sun license already in $CONF" else cat >> $CONF <
Re: Install Sun Java on etch
Am Mittwoch, 9. Mai 2007 18:40 schrieb Emil Gorter: > Hi Janning, > > > On Wed, 9 May 2007 17:14:21 +0200, > Janning Vygen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > ... > > >sun-dlj-v1-1 license could not be presented > > ... > > > 3. Add a hook to install it manually with a little trick: > > > > $ cat hooks/softupdate.JRE > > #!/bin/sh > > yes 'yes' | DEBIAN_FRONTEND=Readline apt-get install sun-java5-bin > > > > now everything runs non-interactively > > I ran into the same, but found a different solution. Yours seems > more correct than mine, but I'd like to share it anyhow. Both are hacks. and hacks are "correct" if they work... > First I did the interactive install and realised that my answer had > been stored somewhere, because the 2nd time I was not asked to > confirm again. I found it sitting in /var/cache/debconf/config.dat > so I added the following to my hooks/instsoft.WORKSTATION > > - > CONF=$FAI_ROOT/var/cache/debconf/config.dat > > if grep "^Name: shared/accepted-sun-dlj-v1-1" $CONF >/dev/null 2>&1; > then > echo "Sun license already in $CONF" > else > > cat >> $CONF < > Name: shared/accepted-sun-dlj-v1-1 > Template: shared/accepted-sun-dlj-v1-1 > Value: true > Owners: > Flags: seen > EDIT_END > > echo "applied SUN license hack.." > > fi > - nice hack. > I guess it's not completely legal to 'preset' your acceptance, of course it is! > but I > did read and accept the license the 1st time I did it interactively.. :-) so did i. to fully understand what i sign, i translated it to german by an excellent and very expensive lawyer :-)) > Cheers, > > Emil Gorter
Re: FAI kernel won't boot on certain boxes
BTW: On 5/9/07, Henning Sprang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Have to investigate further, and maybe look if the problem might be solved in newer versions of the initrdtools. Frank, that doesn't mean you shouldn't try it - but try and report problems, better fixes, here :) I just wanted to add to the record that this possibility is still not a 100% alternative to the fai-kernels, unfortunately. Henning
Re: FAI kernel won't boot on certain boxes
Am 09.05.2007 18:38 schrieb Thomas Lange: >> On Wed, 09 May 2007 18:12:43 +0200, Frank Doepper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> said: > > > But both, the out-of-the-box kernel and the self-compiled kernel, won't > > boot on a certain variant of "transtec" Intel Celeron PC. It says > > "Loading vmlinuz-install..Ready." and dies. > Mmm. Which variant? > I only know of problems with some e1000 cards, where the fai > kernels hangs when doing DHCP request. No, it dies at the very beginning when exec'ing the kernel. Not a single sign of life from the kernel at all. I have just tried to change some kernel configuration details (processor type, smp support) and recompiled and tried, but it's still the same. If you want to have a look at the old-fai-cd-sysinfo-log from kernel 2.6.8, here it is: http://taz.de/~fd/stuff/fai.log Just tried the fai-3.0-cd with linux-2.6.17, it works. Tried that kernel via netboot - it does not work! So I think it has to do rather with pxelinux than with the kernel. It is from recent syslinux version 1:3.31-4. The pxelinux.cfg entry is label fai-generated kernel vmlinuz-install append ip=dhcp root=/dev/nfs nfsroot=/srv/fai/nfsroot,v3,tcp,rsize=32768,wsize=32768 FAI_FLAGS=verbose,sshd,createvt Maybe I need to upgrade the PXE-BIOS? Is this becoming off-topic? Regards, Frank.
Strange cfagent message ...
Hello list,
after upgrading from FAI2 to FAI3.1 (on Ubuntu Fesity) I changed my
cfengine scripts to be run by cfagent (after some googling arround).
No I end up with the following messages in cfagent.log:
= cfagent: FLAPTOP/40-misc =
cfengine:FlapTop-04::0: Warning: actionsequence is empty
cfengine:FlapTop-04::0: Warning: perhaps cfagent.conf/update.conf have
not yet been set up?
FLAPTOP/40-misc OK.
= cfagent: FLAPTOP/72-misc =
cfengine:FlapTop-04::0: Warning: actionsequence is empty
cfengine:FlapTop-04::0: Warning: perhaps cfagent.conf/update.conf have
not yet been set up?
FLAPTOP/72-misc OK.
And it looks as if none of the actions where performed. Here's 72-misc:
#!/usr/sbin/cfagent -f
control:
any::
actionsequence = ( editfiles )
EditFileSize = ( 3 )
editfiles:
any::
{ ${target}/etc/X11/gdm/gdm.conf
ReplaceAll "^GraphicalTheme=.*" With
"GraphicalTheme=FlapGreeter"
}
What am I missing here?
TIA Ralf Mattes
Re: FAI kernel won't boot on certain boxes
> On Wed, 09 May 2007 19:27:50 +0200, Frank Doepper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > said: >> > boot on a certain variant of "transtec" Intel Celeron PC. It says >> > "Loading vmlinuz-install..Ready." and dies. > Just tried the fai-3.0-cd with linux-2.6.17, it works. > Tried that kernel via netboot - it does not work! > So I think it has to do rather with pxelinux than with the kernel. It is > from recent syslinux version 1:3.31-4. The pxelinux.cfg entry is I have syslinux version 3.31-4 with the 1: in front. Yes, it could be the pxelinux loader. Try the old pxelinux.0 file from sarge. Maybe this version works with your hardware. Also try to do a memtest. Maybe defect RAM. -- regards Thomas
Re: Strange cfagent message ...
Hello Ralf,
I get these messages after re-installing machines that had prior contact
to the cfengine server. Deleting the key on the server
(cfengine-reset-key ) helps against 'empty actionsequences'.
That much for helpful error messages ...
You might also want to try more options in your shebang, such as:
#!/usr/sbin/cfagent -qvKf
Regards,
Thomas
Ralf Mattes wrote:
Hello list,
after upgrading from FAI2 to FAI3.1 (on Ubuntu Fesity) I changed my
cfengine scripts to be run by cfagent (after some googling arround).
No I end up with the following messages in cfagent.log:
= cfagent: FLAPTOP/40-misc =
cfengine:FlapTop-04::0: Warning: actionsequence is empty
cfengine:FlapTop-04::0: Warning: perhaps cfagent.conf/update.conf have
not yet been set up?
FLAPTOP/40-misc OK.
= cfagent: FLAPTOP/72-misc =
cfengine:FlapTop-04::0: Warning: actionsequence is empty
cfengine:FlapTop-04::0: Warning: perhaps cfagent.conf/update.conf have
not yet been set up?
FLAPTOP/72-misc OK.
And it looks as if none of the actions where performed. Here's 72-misc:
#!/usr/sbin/cfagent -f
control:
any::
actionsequence = ( editfiles )
EditFileSize = ( 3 )
editfiles:
any::
{ ${target}/etc/X11/gdm/gdm.conf
ReplaceAll "^GraphicalTheme=.*" With
"GraphicalTheme=FlapGreeter"
}
What am I missing here?
TIA Ralf Mattes
Re: Install Sun Java on etch
> I just tried to install sun-jav5-jre with FAI on etch with softupdate. > > the hints in > http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/msg02045.html > helped a lot but didn't work (maybe because of etch) > > I ran into problems because debconf must ask for acceptance of java license. > As aptitude runs in non-interactive mode it aborts installing java: > [...] As you stated correctly, it asks a debconf question - so you need to answer it. The proper way to do this in FAI is debconf preseeding. You achieve this by adding something like sun-java5-bin shared/accepted-sun-dlj-v1-1boolean true sun-java5-jdk shared/accepted-sun-dlj-v1-1boolean true sun-java5-jre shared/accepted-sun-dlj-v1-1boolean true to debconf/DEFAULT in your FAI config space. That's all. Best, Michael pgpyTdUuO5e9x.pgp Description: PGP signature
