Re: [OmniOS-discuss] Improved, but still alpha, ISO installer

[Andy Fiddaman]

On Wed, 1 Mar 2017, Dan McDonald wrote:

; Please refresh your copy by downloading here:
;
;   http://kebe.com/~danmcd/webrevs/r151021-kayak.iso

I'm a bit late to the party but I've downloaded this and burned it to a
CD (old school, I know) and tried booting a Dell R620. It hangs just after
printing:

loading ficl string class
/

With just that / on the last line.

Tried a few times but it always hangs at the same place.

Anything useful I can try?

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Re: [OmniOS-discuss] Improved, but still alpha, ISO installer

[Dan McDonald]

> On Mar 7, 2017, at 11:28 AM, Andy Fiddaman  wrote:
> 
> I'm a bit late to the party but I've downloaded this and burned it to a
> CD (old school, I know) and tried booting a Dell R620. It hangs just after
> printing:
> 
>   loading ficl string class
>   /
> 
> With just that / on the last line.
> 
> Tried a few times but it always hangs at the same place.
> 
> Anything useful I can try?

Hmmm... I wonder if the .iso image is a bit too large for an actual physical CD?

Can you burn it onto a dvd?

Dan

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[OmniOS-discuss] r151020 installer issues

[John Barfield]

I’m having several installer issues with the r151020 usb installer.

It keeps crashing at different parts with different errors.

My question is: should I be using r151014 and run pkg update until the next LTS 
release?

Or is there a best-practices doc that I need to follow to get r151020 working 
right?

This is a sunfire x4170 m2 – All intel, cpu’s, nics, chipset,etc,etc


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Re: [OmniOS-discuss] r151020 installer issues

[Dale Ghent]

> On Mar 7, 2017, at 3:13 PM, John Barfield  wrote:
> 
> I’m having several installer issues with the r151020 usb installer.
> 
> It keeps crashing at different parts with different errors.

Don't keep us in suspense! What are the errors you are seeing?

> My question is: should I be using r151014 and run pkg update until the next 
> LTS release?

You should under normal circumstances be able to install using the 020 media as 
you are attempting to do.

> Or is there a best-practices doc that I need to follow to get r151020 working 
> right?

Under normal circumstances, the "best practice" is boot the install image, and 
use the installer. It would be really helpful to know what these errors you're 
seeing consist of. X4170s are old Intel Westemere-based systems; OmniOS should 
have no problems running on these. Are you using the on-board SAS controller in 
a hardware RAID mode?

/dale

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Re: [OmniOS-discuss] r151020 installer issues

[Dan McDonald]

The installer crashes, or OmniOS itself crashes?  I'd like to know at least a 
bit more detail.

Btw, the installer for the next release of OmniOS is brand new, based on our 
PXE installer Kayak. Between Loader replacing GRUB, Python2.7, and reports like 
yours, it's time to put Caiman out to pasture.

If you're in a hurry, install 014, switch from SunSSH to OpenSSH on 014, and 
then upgrade to 020.

Dan

Sent from my iPhone (typos, autocorrect, and all)

> On Mar 7, 2017, at 3:13 PM, John Barfield  wrote:
> 
> I’m having several installer issues with the r151020 usb installer.
>  
> It keeps crashing at different parts with different errors.
>  
> My question is: should I be using r151014 and run pkg update until the next 
> LTS release?
>  
> Or is there a best-practices doc that I need to follow to get r151020 working 
> right?
>  
> This is a sunfire x4170 m2 – All intel, cpu’s, nics, chipset,etc,etc
>  
>  
> John Barfield
> Engineering and Stuff
>  
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Re: [OmniOS-discuss] r151020 installer issues

[John Barfield]

Yeah, its definitely the hurry factor…this SAN was running r151012 and instead 
of upgrading I’m just reinstalling. (going on pretty long outage duration now)

I did get python errors @99% the last time I ran the installer.

Here are a list of issues I had (I did not write down the actual error messages 
so these are simply generic):


· Crashed @5% after copying data into var

oDropped to shell checked install log

§  Saw complaint about dumpdev not unmounting so I removed it and re-ran the 
installer

· After rerunning the installer the system got to 99% and color 
terminal disappeared…I just saw random messages about disks infinitely

oRebooted and reran installer

· This time I got all the way through the installer to 99% and it 
crashed. A lot of python errors in the installer log.

· Gave up and downloaded the r14

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From: Dan McDonald 
Date: Tuesday, March 7, 2017 at 2:21 PM
To: John Barfield 
Cc: "omnios-discuss@lists.omniti.com" , Dan 
McDonald 
Subject: Re: [OmniOS-discuss] r151020 installer issues

Btw, the installer for the next release of OmniOS is brand new, based on our 
PXE installer Kayak. Between Loader replacing GRUB, Python2.7, and reports like 
yours, it's time to put Caiman out to pasture.


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Re: [OmniOS-discuss] r151020 installer issues

[John Barfield]

Not using hardware RAID mode. It is using the on board SAS controller but I’m 
running in jbod or passthrough mode. Whatever its called on here. 

I just sent a list of errors that I’ve hit so far to the list replying to Dan 
McDonald.

If you guys really want me to I’ll rerun the installer one more time and get 
actual screenshots from the ilom. 



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On 3/7/17, 2:22 PM, "Dale Ghent"  wrote:


> On Mar 7, 2017, at 3:13 PM, John Barfield  
wrote:
> 
> I’m having several installer issues with the r151020 usb installer.
> 
> It keeps crashing at different parts with different errors.

Don't keep us in suspense! What are the errors you are seeing?

> My question is: should I be using r151014 and run pkg update until the 
next LTS release?

You should under normal circumstances be able to install using the 020 
media as you are attempting to do.

> Or is there a best-practices doc that I need to follow to get r151020 
working right?

Under normal circumstances, the "best practice" is boot the install image, 
and use the installer. It would be really helpful to know what these errors 
you're seeing consist of. X4170s are old Intel Westemere-based systems; OmniOS 
should have no problems running on these. Are you using the on-board SAS 
controller in a hardware RAID mode?

/dale

> This is a sunfire x4170 m2 – All intel, cpu’s, nics, chipset,etc,etc
> 
> 
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Re: [OmniOS-discuss] r151020 installer issues

[Dan McDonald]

Disappearing disks is a sign what disk controller are you running?  Dale 
mentioned some of those possibilities as well.

Dan

Sent from my iPhone (typos, autocorrect, and all)

> On Mar 7, 2017, at 3:25 PM, John Barfield  wrote:
> 
> Yeah, its definitely the hurry factor…this SAN was running r151012 and 
> instead of upgrading I’m just reinstalling. (going on pretty long outage 
> duration now)
>  
> I did get python errors @99% the last time I ran the installer.
>  
> Here are a list of issues I had (I did not write down the actual error 
> messages so these are simply generic):
>  
> · Crashed @5% after copying data into var
> oDropped to shell checked install log
> §  Saw complaint about dumpdev not unmounting so I removed it and re-ran the 
> installer
> · After rerunning the installer the system got to 99% and color 
> terminal disappeared…I just saw random messages about disks infinitely
> oRebooted and reran installer
> · This time I got all the way through the installer to 99% and it 
> crashed. A lot of python errors in the installer log.
> · Gave up and downloaded the r14
>  
> John Barfield
> Engineering and Stuff
>  
> M: +1 (214) 425-0783  O: +1 (214) 506-8354 
> john.barfi...@bissinc.com
>  
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> From: Dan McDonald 
> Date: Tuesday, March 7, 2017 at 2:21 PM
> To: John Barfield 
> Cc: "omnios-discuss@lists.omniti.com" , Dan 
> McDonald 
> Subject: Re: [OmniOS-discuss] r151020 installer issues
>  
> Btw, the installer for the next release of OmniOS is brand new, based on our 
> PXE installer Kayak. Between Loader replacing GRUB, Python2.7, and reports 
> like yours, it's time to put Caiman out to pasture.
> 
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[OmniOS-discuss] Fwd: [developer] Review request: 7948 Remove old calendar utility

[Dan McDonald]

Not to be confused with cal(1), but does anyone here use calendar(1)?

Trying to gauge how hard I should try to replace it or not.

Thanks,
Dan

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> 
> Please review:
> 
> Issue: https://illumos.org/issues/7948
> Webrev: http://pkgs.tribblix.org/webrevs/7948/
> 
> A couple of alternatives for distros (and individuals) that might
> want a replacement are mentioned in the bug report.
> 
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Re: [OmniOS-discuss] r151020 installer issues

[Dan McDonald]

> On Mar 7, 2017, at 4:46 PM, John Barfield  wrote:
> 
> 

open() returned EIO:

  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/vendor-packages/pkg/manifest.py", line 1713, in 
gen_actions_by_type
raise apx._convert_error(e)
IOError: [Errno 5] I/O error
2017-03-07 15:38:08,494   InstallationLogger ERROR  Checkpoint 
cleanup-cpio-install failed
2017-03-07 15:38:08,494   InstallationLogger ERROR  [Errno 5] I/O error 
  


That doesn't look promising... and makes me wonder about hardware as well.  
Also, are there any existing rpool or rpool-like pools available?  Maybe the 
beadm libraries got confused?

Dan

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Re: [OmniOS-discuss] r151020 installer issues

[John Barfield]

I caught that and pulled the SAS HBA. I’ve got another Oracle RAID controller 
card in now and the installer just finished. 

The old card was: LSI SAS3081E-S

New Card is: LSI BAT1S1P

Thanks for the help. I just did an old fashioned hardware RAID1 in the LSI GUI. 

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On 3/7/17, 4:17 PM, "Dan McDonald"  wrote:


> On Mar 7, 2017, at 4:46 PM, John Barfield  
wrote:
> 
> 

open() returned EIO:

  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/vendor-packages/pkg/manifest.py", line 1713, in 
gen_actions_by_type
raise apx._convert_error(e)
IOError: [Errno 5] I/O error
2017-03-07 15:38:08,494   InstallationLogger ERROR  Checkpoint 
cleanup-cpio-install failed
2017-03-07 15:38:08,494   InstallationLogger ERROR  [Errno 5] I/O error 
  


That doesn't look promising... and makes me wonder about hardware as well.  
Also, are there any existing rpool or rpool-like pools available?  Maybe the 
beadm libraries got confused?

Dan



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Re: [OmniOS-discuss] r151020 installer issues

[Dale Ghent]

> On Mar 7, 2017, at 5:22 PM, John Barfield  wrote:
> 
> I caught that and pulled the SAS HBA. I’ve got another Oracle RAID controller 
> card in now and the installer just finished.
> 
> The old card was: LSI SAS3081E-S
> 
> New Card is: LSI BAT1S1P
> 
> Thanks for the help. I just did an old fashioned hardware RAID1 in the LSI 
> GUI.

Why? You can just attach the second drive to form one under ZFS.

/dale



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Re: [OmniOS-discuss] r151020 installer issues

[Dan McDonald]

>> The old card was: LSI SAS3081E-S

Eeesh, that's the old 1068 chipset.

>> New Card is: LSI BAT1S1P

That's a battery backup part number.  Odd.

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Re: [OmniOS-discuss] r151020 installer issues

[John Barfield]

Yeah, I have two servers that came with those. 

I can’t figure out how to put them in jbod mode is the only problem. 

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On 3/7/17, 4:50 PM, "Dan McDonald"  wrote:


>> The old card was: LSI SAS3081E-S

Eeesh, that's the old 1068 chipset.

>> New Card is: LSI BAT1S1P

That's a battery backup part number.  Odd.

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[OmniOS-discuss] Quick Test of r151021 ISO Install using Xen HVM and an "xdf" Device

[Prakash Surya]

Hey All,

I just wanted to post and say that I've tested the new r151021 ISO
installer using a Xen VM and was able to successfully perform the
installation. Here's a copy of the Xen VM configuration that I used:

# cat ami-template.cfg
builder='hvm'
name='ami-template'
vcpus=4
memory=4096
vif=['bridge=xenbr0, type=ioemu']
#disk=[  'file:/root/psurya/omni-kayak/r151021-kayak.iso,hdb:cdrom,r',
#'file:/root/psurya/omni-kayak/ami-template.img,xvda,w' ]
disk=[  'file:/root/psurya/omni-kayak/ami-template.img,xvda,w' ]
#boot='d'
boot='c'
vnc=1
vnclisten='0.0.0.0'
vncconsole=1
on_crash='preserve'
xen_platform_pci=1
serial='pty'
on_reboot='destroy'

The only "catch", is I have to set "apix_enable" to 0. I do that using KMDB
during the installer (e.g. edit the loader so I drop to KMDB first), and
then edit "/etc/system" after the install is completed but prior to the
first boot (so I don't have to keep using KMDB for every boot).

If I don't set that tuning, the system will "hang" during boot up (this is
a problem with illumos and Xen HVM, and not specific to OmniOS or the new
ISO).

Additionally, I've attached a PNG image with some "zpool" and "format"
output from within the Xen VM running after the ISO install (hopefully the
mailing list doesn't strip the image from this post).

Cheers,
Prakash
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[OmniOS-discuss] new supermicro server

[Geoff Nordli]

Hi.

I am looking at ordering a new 3U supermicro server. as an all-in one.   
I have been using these recently:


https://www.supermicro.com/products/system/3U/6038/SSG-6038R-E1CR16L.cfm

It has the LSI 3008 HBA in IT mode.

Any other suggestions out there?

thanks,

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Re: [OmniOS-discuss] new supermicro server

[Dan McDonald]

> On Mar 7, 2017, at 8:16 PM, Geoff Nordli  wrote:
> 
> Hi.
> 
> I am looking at ordering a new 3U supermicro server. as an all-in one.   I 
> have been using these recently:
> 
> https://www.supermicro.com/products/system/3U/6038/SSG-6038R-E1CR16L.cfm
> 
> It has the LSI 3008 HBA in IT mode.
> 
> Any other suggestions out there?

The one you mention is pretty good, especially if you want 2 + 16 drives 
(2x2.5", 16x3.5") online.

Unless you want something smaller, I can think of much worse ways to spend your 
money.

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Re: [OmniOS-discuss] Fwd: [developer] Review request: 7948 Remove old calendar utility

[Tim Rice]

Hi Dan,

On Tue, 7 Mar 2017, Dan McDonald wrote:

> Not to be confused with cal(1), but does anyone here use calendar(1)?

I use it here in my mail zone.

> Trying to gauge how hard I should try to replace it or not.

It would not be anywhere near as anoying to lose it as it was to
discover bind was missing. ;-)

> Thanks,
> Dan
> 
> Sent from my iPhone (typos, autocorrect, and all)
> 
> Begin forwarded message:
> 
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Re: [OmniOS-discuss] new supermicro server

[Stephan Budach]

- Ursprüngliche Mail -
> Von: "Dan McDonald" 
> An: "Geoff Nordli" 
> CC: "omnios-discuss" 
> Gesendet: Mittwoch, 8. März 2017 02:21:20
> Betreff: Re: [OmniOS-discuss] new supermicro server
> 
> 
> > On Mar 7, 2017, at 8:16 PM, Geoff Nordli  wrote:
> > 
> > Hi.
> > 
> > I am looking at ordering a new 3U supermicro server. as an all-in
> > one.   I have been using these recently:
> > 
> > https://www.supermicro.com/products/system/3U/6038/SSG-6038R-E1CR16L.cfm
> > 
> > It has the LSI 3008 HBA in IT mode.
> > 
> > Any other suggestions out there?
> 
> The one you mention is pretty good, especially if you want 2 + 16
> drives (2x2.5", 16x3.5") online.
> 
> Unless you want something smaller, I can think of much worse ways to
> spend your money.
> 
> Dan
> 

Yeah - I do have a couple of those, even with the current X10 board and I am 
really satisfied with those. Just throwed in another Intel 10GbE DP and hooked 
them up to our Nexus network. Really solid boxes!

Cheers,
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Re: [OmniOS-discuss] new supermicro server

[Geoff Nordli]

On 2017-03-07 09:35 PM, Stephan Budach wrote:


- Ursprüngliche Mail -

Von: "Dan McDonald" 
An: "Geoff Nordli" 
CC: "omnios-discuss" 
Gesendet: Mittwoch, 8. März 2017 02:21:20
Betreff: Re: [OmniOS-discuss] new supermicro server



On Mar 7, 2017, at 8:16 PM, Geoff Nordli  wrote:

Hi.

I am looking at ordering a new 3U supermicro server. as an all-in
one.   I have been using these recently:

https://www.supermicro.com/products/system/3U/6038/SSG-6038R-E1CR16L.cfm

It has the LSI 3008 HBA in IT mode.

Any other suggestions out there?

The one you mention is pretty good, especially if you want 2 + 16
drives (2x2.5", 16x3.5") online.

Unless you want something smaller, I can think of much worse ways to
spend your money.

Dan


Yeah - I do have a couple of those, even with the current X10 board and I am 
really satisfied with those. Just throwed in another Intel 10GbE DP and hooked 
them up to our Nexus network. Really solid boxes!

Cheers,
Stephan


Thanks Stephan and Dan.

One thing I am not sure about is NVMe drives.

Are those stable?

Geoff


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Re: [OmniOS-discuss] new supermicro server

[Dan McDonald]

You didn't mention anything in the original note about NVMe, and neither did 
the spec sheet.

NVMe 1.0 and 1.1 should work on 020 and later OmniOS. Hang out on the illumos 
developers list to see the latest on that front.

Dan

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Re: [OmniOS-discuss] new supermicro server

[Stephan Budach]

- Ursprüngliche Mail -
> Von: "Dan McDonald" 
> An: "Geoff Nordli" 
> CC: "omnios-discuss" 
> Gesendet: Mittwoch, 8. März 2017 07:44:30
> Betreff: Re: [OmniOS-discuss] new supermicro server
> 
> You didn't mention anything in the original note about NVMe, and
> neither did the spec sheet.
> 
> NVMe 1.0 and 1.1 should work on 020 and later OmniOS. Hang out on the
> illumos developers list to see the latest on that front.
> 
> Dan
> 
> Sent from my iPhone (typos, autocorrect, and all)
> 

In regards of NVMe, I am eyeing this particular Supermicro and I intend to get 
my hands on two of those in Q2:

SuperMicro SuperServer SSG-2028R-NR48N

I think these will bring a lot of fun to the table. ;)

Cheers,
Stephan


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Re: [OmniOS-discuss] Quick Test of r151021 ISO Install using Xen HVM and an "xdf" Device

[Stephan Budach]

Hi Prakash, 

- Ursprüngliche Mail -

> Von: "Prakash Surya" 
> An: omnios-discuss@lists.omniti.com
> Gesendet: Mittwoch, 8. März 2017 01:55:19
> Betreff: [OmniOS-discuss] Quick Test of r151021 ISO Install using Xen
> HVM and an "xdf" Device

> Hey All,

> I just wanted to post and say that I've tested the new r151021 ISO
> installer using a Xen VM and was able to successfully perform the
> installation. Here's a copy of the Xen VM configuration that I used:

> # cat ami-template.cfg
> builder='hvm'
> name='ami-template'
> vcpus=4
> memory=4096
> vif=['bridge=xenbr0, type=ioemu']
> #disk=[ 'file:/root/psurya/omni-kayak/r151021-kayak.iso,hdb:cdrom,r',
> # 'file:/root/psurya/omni-kayak/ami-template.img,xvda,w' ]
> disk=[ 'file:/root/psurya/omni-kayak/ami-template.img,xvda,w' ]
> #boot='d'
> boot='c'
> vnc=1
> vnclisten='0.0.0.0'
> vncconsole=1
> on_crash='preserve'
> xen_platform_pci=1
> serial='pty'
> on_reboot='destroy'

> The only "catch", is I have to set "apix_enable" to 0. I do that
> using KMDB during the installer (e.g. edit the loader so I drop to
> KMDB first), and then edit "/etc/system" after the install is
> completed but prior to the first boot (so I don't have to keep using
> KMDB for every boot).

> If I don't set that tuning, the system will "hang" during boot up
> (this is a problem with illumos and Xen HVM, and not specific to
> OmniOS or the new ISO).

> Additionally, I've attached a PNG image with some "zpool" and
> "format" output from within the Xen VM running after the ISO install
> (hopefully the mailing list doesn't strip the image from this post).

> Cheers,
> Prakash

Can you elaborate on that a little more as of what exactly you did to the 
loader? I am guessing that you modified the kernel boot arguments, but 
unfortuanetly, I am unfamiliar with the new loader. 

Cheers, 
Stephan 


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Re: [OmniOS-discuss] new supermicro server

[Ergi Thanasko]

No LSI controller on those, they connect directly to the CPU with razor cards.  
In theory they can utilize the entire bus speed but in the backplane you get 
around 2GB/sec throughout on each nvme drive.

Sent from my iPhone

> On Mar 7, 2017, at 11:25 PM, Stephan Budach  wrote:
> 
> 
> 
> - Ursprüngliche Mail -
>> Von: "Dan McDonald" 
>> An: "Geoff Nordli" 
>> CC: "omnios-discuss" 
>> Gesendet: Mittwoch, 8. März 2017 07:44:30
>> Betreff: Re: [OmniOS-discuss] new supermicro server
>> 
>> You didn't mention anything in the original note about NVMe, and
>> neither did the spec sheet.
>> 
>> NVMe 1.0 and 1.1 should work on 020 and later OmniOS. Hang out on the
>> illumos developers list to see the latest on that front.
>> 
>> Dan
>> 
>> Sent from my iPhone (typos, autocorrect, and all)
>> 
> 
> In regards of NVMe, I am eyeing this particular Supermicro and I intend to 
> get my hands on two of those in Q2:
> 
> SuperMicro SuperServer SSG-2028R-NR48N
> 
> I think these will bring a lot of fun to the table. ;)
> 
> Cheers,
> Stephan
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