Re: Setting up FAI on xenial
On Thursday, February 16, 2017 1:31:06 PM PST, Thomas Lange wrote: I guess you do not have installed any linux-image package inside the nfsroot. Try: grep linux-image /var/log/fai/fai-make-nfsroot.log Since you have installed the Ubuntu version of the FAI packages, your /etc/fai/NFSROOT may not work for a Debian nfsroot. Please check the diff of your NFSROOT to this version: https://github.com/faiproject/fai/blob/master/conf/NFSROOT In Ubuntu the kernel package ist called linux-image...-generic in Debian it's linux-image-amd64. I guess this is the problem you have. I just copied the whole thing in place and ran fai-setup. It worked! I have to fight some other fires now and won't actually get to go further today. Thanks again for your help. Bill -- "Can't sing louder than the guns when I'm gone, so I guess I'll have to do it while I'm here." Phil Ochs
Re: Setting up FAI on xenial
I guess you do not have installed any linux-image package inside the nfsroot. Try: grep linux-image /var/log/fai/fai-make-nfsroot.log Since you have installed the Ubuntu version of the FAI packages, your /etc/fai/NFSROOT may not work for a Debian nfsroot. Please check the diff of your NFSROOT to this version: https://github.com/faiproject/fai/blob/master/conf/NFSROOT In Ubuntu the kernel package ist called linux-image...-generic in Debian it's linux-image-amd64. I guess this is the problem you have. -- regards Thomas
Re: Setting up FAI on xenial
On Thursday, February 16, 2017 12:11:26 PM PST, Thomas Lange wrote: > Hmmm, it is pulling the package from the debian repo. That's ok. The nfsroot must be a Debian one. I do not know if a Ubuntu nfsroot is currently working. Use a Debian nfsroot. > Okay, the sources.list is pointing to stretch. Is that expected? Yes. > Here is my /etc/fai/nfsroot.conf file. > #FAI_DEBOOTSTRAP="jessie http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/"; > FAI_DEBOOTSTRAP="xenial http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu"; Please change this to Debian stretch. New error: Creating config file /etc/default/grub with new version grub-probe: error: cannot find a device for / (is /dev mounted?). grub-probe: error: cannot find a device for /boot (is /dev mounted?). grub-probe: error: cannot find a device for /boot/grub (is /dev mounted?). install_packages: executing chroot /srv/fai/nfsroot apt-get clean install_packages: executing chroot /srv/fai/nfsroot dpkg --configure --pending install_packages: executing chroot /srv/fai/nfsroot dpkg -C install_packages: executing chroot /srv/fai/nfsroot apt-get clean chmod: missing operand after 'a+r' Try 'chmod --help' for more information. ERROR: No initrd was created. Check the package name of the linux-image package in /etc/fai/NFSROOT. Log file written to /var/log/fai/fai-make-nfsroot.log Log file written to /var/log/fai/fai-make-nfsroot.log ERROR when calling fai-make-nfsroot. Log file written to /var/log/fai/fai-setup.log And I still like to see the /etc/fai/NFSROOT file. GACK! I sent the wrong file. Here is the right one. # package list for creating the NFSROOT PACKAGES apt-get nfs-common fai-nfsroot module-init-tools ssh rdate lshw rpcbind rsync lftp less dump reiserfsprogs e2fsprogs usbutils hwinfo psmisc pciutils hdparm smartmontools parted mdadm lvm2 dnsutils ntpdate dosfstools xfsprogs xfsdump btrfs-tools procinfo numactl dialog console-common kbd iproute2 netselect moreutils udev subversion xz-utils cupt pxelinux syslinux-common # in jessie we need both curl wget- libpsl0- libicu52- nmap emacs24-nox # some network cards needs firmware #firmware-bnx2 firmware-bnx2x firmware-realtek #firmware-linux-nonfree # dracut replaces live-boot and initramfs-tools #dracut-network live-boot- initramfs-tools- #dracut-config-generic # this is not available in plain Debian jessie # you should not edit the lines below # architecture dependend list of packages that are installed #git # git consumes a lot of disk space on the FAI CD PACKAGES install DEBIAN_8 sysvinit-core systemd-sysv- PACKAGES install I386 grub-pc linux-image-server # packages for Ubuntu natty/oneiric/precise: # linux-image-generic live-boot PACKAGES install AMD64 grub-pc #linux-image-server # packages for Ubuntu vivid #PACKAGES install UBUNTU #upstart-sysv -- "Can't sing louder than the guns when I'm gone, so I guess I'll have to do it while I'm here." Phil Ochs
Re: Setting up FAI on xenial
> Hmmm, it is pulling the package from the debian repo. That's ok. The nfsroot must be a Debian one. I do not know if a Ubuntu nfsroot is currently working. Use a Debian nfsroot. > Okay, the sources.list is pointing to stretch. Is that expected? Yes. > Here is my /etc/fai/nfsroot.conf file. > #FAI_DEBOOTSTRAP="jessie http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/"; > FAI_DEBOOTSTRAP="xenial http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu"; Please change this to Debian stretch. And I still like to see the /etc/fai/NFSROOT file. -- regards Thomas
Re: Setting up FAI on xenial
On Thursday, February 16, 2017 8:43:16 AM PST, Thomas Lange wrote: Thanks for the log. You do not install any kernel package inside the nfsroot. I guess it's because of the ubuntu version of FAI on your host system. The main problem may be inside /etc/fai/NFSROOT or in fai-make-nfsroot itself. IIRC we made some changes there. Can you please try to upgrade your fai packages on the host. Have a look at https://launchpad.net/~fai/+archive/ubuntu/ppa. Added the ppa to the sources.list.d and upgraded FAI to version 5.3.2-0~6669~ubuntu16.04.1 First thing I hit was that the file /etc/fai/apt/keys/faippa.asc was empty. I replaced it with the key for the ppa. I got further, but it still failed. The last few lines of the failure are: # - Preparing to unpack .../systemd_232-15_amd64.deb ... Unpacking systemd (232-15) over (229-4ubuntu4) ... Processing triggers for ureadahead (0.100.0-19) ... Errors were encountered while processing: /var/cache/apt/archives/console-setup-linux_1.158_all.deb E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) Log file written to /var/log/fai/fai-make-nfsroot.log ERROR when calling fai-make-nfsroot. Log file written to /var/log/fai/fai-setup.log # - I chroot'ed into the nfsroot and ran 'apt-get install -f' and found: WARNING: The following packages cannot be authenticated! console-setup-linux Hmmm, it is pulling the package from the debian repo. # - # apt-cache policy console-setup-linux console-setup-linux: Installed: 1.158 Candidate: 1.158 Version table: *** 1.158 500 500 http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian stretch/main amd64 Packages 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status # - Okay, the sources.list is pointing to stretch. Is that expected? Anyway, added the debian archive key and tried again. It konked over again. I chroot'ed in again and ran 'apt-get install -f'. Here is the first part of log from that: # - # chroot /srv/fai/nfsroot/ root@corpfai:/# apt-get install -f Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done Correcting dependencies... Done The following additional packages will be installed: console-setup-linux The following packages will be upgraded: console-setup-linux 1 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 98 not upgraded. 19 not fully installed or removed. Need to get 0 B/983 kB of archives. After this operation, 11.3 kB of additional disk space will be used. E: Can not write log (Is /dev/pts mounted?) - posix_openpt (2: No such file or directory) Setting up sysvinit-utils (2.88dsf-59.8) ... Setting up systemd (232-15) ... Installing new version of config file /etc/dbus-1/system.d/org.freedesktop.login1.conf ... Installing new version of config file /etc/dbus-1/system.d/org.freedesktop.systemd1.conf ... Installing new version of config file /etc/pam.d/systemd-user ... Installing new version of config file /etc/systemd/journald.conf ... # ... more normal output # - Maybe the /dev/pts warning is the problem? Here are the setup and make nfsroot logs: http://pastebin.com/Kqk5G20Z http://pastebin.com/2xjMLjgp Please send the /etc/fai/NFSROOT so I can check this file. Here is my /etc/fai/nfsroot.conf file. # - # For a detailed description see nfsroot.conf(5) # " " for debootstrap #FAI_DEBOOTSTRAP="jessie http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/"; FAI_DEBOOTSTRAP="xenial http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu"; FAI_ROOTPW='$1$kBnWcO.E$djxB128U7dMkrltJHPf6d1' NFSROOT=/srv/fai/nfsroot TFTPROOT=/srv/tftp/fai NFSROOT_HOOKS=/etc/fai/nfsroot-hooks/ FAI_DEBOOTSTRAP_OPTS="--exclude=info,wget,dhcp-client --include=aptitude" # Configuration space FAI_CONFIGDIR=/etc/fai # - Bill -- "Can't sing louder than the guns when I'm gone, so I guess I'll have to do it while I'm here." Phil Ochs
Re: Setting up FAI on xenial
Thanks for the log. You do not install any kernel package inside the nfsroot. I guess it's because of the ubuntu version of FAI on your host system. The main problem may be inside /etc/fai/NFSROOT or in fai-make-nfsroot itself. IIRC we made some changes there. Can you please try to upgrade your fai packages on the host. Have a look at https://launchpad.net/~fai/+archive/ubuntu/ppa. Please send the /etc/fai/NFSROOT so I can check this file. -- regards Thomas
Re: Setting up FAI on xenial
On Thursday, February 16, 2017 3:57:33 AM PST, Thomas Lange wrote: On Wed, 15 Feb 2017 12:30:41 -0800, Bill MacAllister said: > Same problem. What I did was to edit /etc/fai/nfsroot.conf and set > FAI_DEBOOTSTRAP to "jessie http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/"; > I add the Debian apt keys to /etc/fai/apt/keys Please put the log of the fai-make-nfsroot -v call onto paste.debian.net. You may also want to join the #fai channel, to get faster help. Turns on the log is just a little bigger than the Debian paste limit. Here is a pastebin of the log http://pastebin.com/d3RBfTZD I did join the channel, but didn't get an response the one time I asked there. I expect being on the Left Coast of the US was the problem. I am going to build as Debian Jessie systems, configure backports for FAI and try that next. Thanks again, Bill -- "Can't sing louder than the guns when I'm gone, so I guess I'll have to do it while I'm here." Phil Ochs
Re: Setting up FAI on xenial
> On Wed, 15 Feb 2017 12:30:41 -0800, Bill MacAllister > said: > Same problem. What I did was to edit /etc/fai/nfsroot.conf and set > FAI_DEBOOTSTRAP to "jessie http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/"; > I add the Debian apt keys to /etc/fai/apt/keys Please put the log of the fai-make-nfsroot -v call onto paste.debian.net. You may also want to join the #fai channel, to get faster help. -- regards Thomas
Re: Setting up FAI on xenial
Switching mailers, so the discussion is a bit more readable. I am having problems setting up FAI on a Xenial system using the stock packages. fai-setup is failing. The last few lines of the run are: Which FAI version are you using? Building a Ubuntu nfsroot may not work. Then create a Debian nfsroot, but install Ubuntu on your clients. This combination will work. The version that is in the Xenial archive right now is 5.0.3ubuntu1. Okay, I'll give it a try and let you know what happens. Same problem. What I did was to edit /etc/fai/nfsroot.conf and set FAI_DEBOOTSTRAP to "jessie http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/"; I add the Debian apt keys to /etc/fai/apt/keys What else should I try? Bill -- Bill
