> On Mon, Jun 13, 2005 at 12:55:06PM +0200, Michael Tautschnig wrote:
> > > Hi all
> > >
> > > I am trying to install mtop via fai.
> > > The problem is, that the install script tries to create a new user in the
> > > mysql-database w
> Hi all
>
> I am trying to install mtop via fai.
> The problem is, that the install script tries to create a new user in the
> mysql-database which - of course - is not running at the time of installation.
> I will file a bugreport against mtop. But I would like to know if there are
> any workar
> On Sat, Jun 11, 2005 at 01:07:45PM +0200, Michael Tautschnig wrote:
> > > during my latest softupdate I got an error processing my cfengine
> > > scripts. The
> > > log states:
> > >
> > > /usr/bin/fai-do-scripts: line 173: 23726 Segmentation fa
> Hi,
>
> during my latest softupdate I got an error processing my cfengine scripts. The
> log states:
>
> /usr/bin/fai-do-scripts: line 173: 23726 Segmentation fault ./$file
> --no-lock -v -f $file -D${cfclasses} >>$LOGDIR/cfengine.log 2>&1
>
> Removing the --no-lock option from fai-do-sc
Hi Thomas!
While reading Henning's success story, I thought I could also add something:
Has anyone ever installed a system in 189 seconds without FAI? :-) I must admit,
my environment had already been prepared for that system...
Probably, many others on this list can report similar things, thus
Hello!
I'm having the following problem: fai tries to connect to faimond (in
task_confdir) on $monserver, which is set to $SERVER due to
# check if monitor server is available
[ -z "$monserver" ] && monserver=$SERVER
In my case, this is problematic for two reasons:
- I'm using multiple D
[...]
>
> Which is somehow ugly (I often don't like the idea anyway of having
> these files named as classes, but when i thought about having another
> intermediate directory with the class name and put the file in it, I
> didn't like that also, so it seems the way it is is the one that sucks
> le
> Hi,
> Maybe I miss something, but when I rename some files
> in /usr/local/share/fai/files, I always have to change the corresponding
> script that is responsible for copying this file to it's place.
>
> Similar double-actions are required when adding or removing a file.
>
> I would rather lik
[...]
>
> Hmmm, don't think that would cause it (both boxen are in the same subnet)
> so they should behave similarly wrt/ time sync.
> And IIRC ntpdate has a shorter timeout, not 3 minutes
>
If you can't physically access the host, the easiest way would probably be a
hook for task_setup, setup.$
> I've got a host that spends a lot of time in task_setup:
>
> 05-05-26:10:14:58 zweistein check
> 05-05-26:10:14:58 zweistein TASKEND confdir 0
> 05-05-26:10:14:58 zweistein TASKBEGIN setup
> 05-05-26:10:18:09 zweistein TASKEND setup 0
> 05-05-26:10:18:09 zweistein T
> On Wed, May 25, 2005 at 09:22:42PM +0200, Michael Tautschnig wrote:
> > > On Wed, May 25, 2005 at 05:57:22PM +0200, Anders Jackson wrote:
> > > > > BTW, I still like the idea of having multiple DHCP servers.
> > > > > Unfortunately, the second o
> Hi again!
>
> > I just had a look add rpcinfo's manpage:
> > -p Probe the portmapper on host, and print a list of all registered
> > RPC
> > programs. If host is not specified, it defaults to the value returned by
> > hostname(1).
> > Does
> > - "hostname" work and
> > - resolve to
[...]
>
> Do we really need the hangcheck module in the default fai-kernel? IMO
> no. If you have a serious kernel problem with your fai kernel, you
> can build a new fai kernel yourself. But maybe your problem is related
> to bug #307147 and so we have a workaround in fai and with kernel
> 2.6.11
> On Wed, May 25, 2005 at 05:57:22PM +0200, Anders Jackson wrote:
> > > BTW, I still like the idea of having multiple DHCP servers.
> > > Unfortunately, the second one (if no FAI server) would simply let the
> > > node boot from its harddisk - not exactly what's intended.
> > > Switch off the addi
[...]
>
> BTW:
> I expect 2.8.4 to destroy my local setup again since the automated patching
> of fai.conf etc would no longer work :-( and it's little fun to find
> such changes the hard way.
>
If you are willing to track all changes, you could ask Thomas to add your email
address to his CVS-com
> Hi,
>
> before filing a bug against fai (2.8.3) I'd like to ask here whether I'm
> making stupid mistakes again...
>
> (Before I start: this did work before, with 2.6.x.)
>
> I'm trying to install a lot of packages (this is a server that gets
> backed up by Tivoli and has some 3ware controlle
> On Tue, May 24, 2005 at 02:40:03PM +0200, Michael Tautschnig wrote:
> > [...]
> > >
> > > But another minor thing showed up: sometimes it would be handy to 'patch'
> > > the current setup - not using cfengine but simple patch. Could it
> Hi,
>
> if you use fai softupdate, having cfengine scripts containing something like
>
> files:
>any::
> ${target}/etc/cron.daily/calamaris mode=0600 act=fixall
>
> you will find your / chmod 0600.
>
> The problem: ${target) will be replaced by / during softupdate and cfengine
> s
[...]
>
> I investigated a little bit more: My observation was that the
> installations hangs every time a user or group is added. This is done
> through the scripts /usr/sbin/adduser and /usr/sbin/addgroup from Debian.
> Both are written in Perl and include
> /usr/share/perl5/Debian/AdduserCommon
[...]
>
> But another minor thing showed up: sometimes it would be handy to 'patch'
> the current setup - not using cfengine but simple patch. Could it be added
> to the nfsroot setup by default?
>
[...]
Did you really want to say "nfsroot" or did you mean the configuration space? If
I got that r
> On Mon, May 23, 2005 at 08:36:40PM +0200, Michael Tautschnig wrote:
> > Hi Steffen,
> >
> > if you're still interested in that problem - could you give the following
> > patch
> > a try? IMHO the problem is, that logcheck does not exist within your
Hi Steffen,
if you're still interested in that problem - could you give the following patch
a try? IMHO the problem is, that logcheck does not exist within your nfsroot, it
only exists on the future client. Thus I'd chroot before doing
getpwnam/getgrnam.
diff -rN -u old-MT_FAI/scripts/fcopy new-M
> Hi,
>
> I am currently experimenting with FAI for sarge. Since (approx.) last
> week I ran into problems when installing specific packages:
>
> Every time a package postinst tries to add a user or a group, there
> comes the error message
> "rpcinfo: can't contact portmapper: RPC: Remote system
[...]
>
> I do not know much about the debiandoc-tools so any hint is
> appreciated ;)
>
The manpage of po-debiandoc states:
Identical structure
In order to create initial PO file, original and translated document
must have a similar structure, i.e. have same elements at the same pla
Hi Holger,
[...]
>
> Currently "only" french and romanian translations of the guide exist. These
> translations are neither integrated in the FAI source code nor packaged.
> There is also no common (or wide known) toolchain to update / create the
> translations (hints certainly welcome!).
>
> > On Tue, 10 May 2005 05:52:06 -0400 (EDT), "Dan B. Phung" <[EMAIL
> > PROTECTED]> said:
>
> > root-nfs Cannot mount error -13 all night, and have tried EVERYTHING
> found
> AFAIK this means permission denied.
>
> > on google pertaining to this. Could it be the fai kernel I c
> Michael Tautschnig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb am 04.05.05 13:19:33:
>
> > IMHO it is neither's fault - things just don't work that way. The package
> > thinks, it is correct to use defaults from some config file, whereas FAI
> > expects
> > t
[...]
> Alright, thanks a lot!
>
> Could you say me a little bit about this bug?
> Is it from FAI or from some debian packages?
>
IMHO it is neither's fault - things just don't work that way. The package
thinks, it is correct to use defaults from some config file, whereas FAI expects
the package
> Hi!
>
> Everytimes during my ubuntu installation, i have a problem with the
> debconf fai configuration.
>
> We define these keys:
> locales locales/default_environment select fr_BE.UTF-8
> locales locales/locales_to_be_generated multiselect [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> ISO-8859-15, fr_BE.UTF-8 UTF-8
>
Dear Martin,
> After applying the provided patch on two testservers I still have the
> problem with the wrong root for grub. I run one server to deploy sarge,
> one to deploy ubuntu. Both have the same error. Here are my specs:
>
> disk_config:
> fabia:/usr/local/share/fai/disk_config# cat FAIBAS
> Hi all,
>
> I am a newbie in unix cluster as well as debian. My lab has a cluster.
> The main server has RAID. There are 8 disks. The control card has a
> bios. When it boots, I have an option to build a raid array (volume,
> RAID0 (stripe), RAID5 or RAID10(stripes of mirror)). However, some of
Hi all!
I thought, the results from the FAI-Workshop should have gone into testing - but
here
http://bjorn.haxx.se/debian/testing.pl?package=fai
it says, that this will only happen on request...
Thanks,
Michael
> Michael Tautschnig schrieb:
>
> >>Gibt es eine Möglichkeit, FAI zu sagen, dass das NFS-Root nicht auf dem
> >>BOOT-Server liegt, sondern auf einem anderen (wo auch die
> >>FAI-Konfiguration liegt)?
>
[...]
>
> Danke erstmal für die schnellen Ant
FAI-Konfiguration liegt)?
>
Ja, aber das muss nicht dem FAI-, sondern dem DHCP-Server gesagt werden, d.h.
dieser muss das in den DHCP-Optionen mitliefern. Alternativ kann es auch über
die pxelinux-Konfiguration mitgeteilt werden (/boot/fai/pxelinux.cfg/...)
Viele Grüße,
Michael Tautschnig
Hi!
To get rid of host-key-has-changed-warnings when trying to do ssh to some
client being installed I'm looking for a solution - has anyone already written
such a hook or is there any other way to solve this problem?
Thanks,
Michael
How can I avoid overwriting config files changed by me without asking?
How are others handling this situation?
/etc/apt/apt.conf :
DPkg
{
Options {
"--abort-after=4711"; // a magic number in cologne ;-)
"--force-confnew";
}
};
is set up by FAI as a default - replac
[...]
Apart from this problem the client seems to be properly installed with the
default installation, and we can ssh to it successfully.
A recurring problem - yet I don't remember the correct solution - could
you try using dhcp3-client?
Regards,
Michael
[...]
parsing config file: /fai/disk_config/SMALL_IDE
ERROR: cannot preserve partition hde2. partition not found.0
cp: cannot stat `/tmp/fai/disk_var.sh': No such file or directory
Save log files via ssh [...]
What about the following idea:
Using Partition Magic, move the 2nd and 3rd partition back
[...]
the only way i got linux installed is by booting with an partition-magic
disk and convert the extendet partition into a primary one and to shrink
the last partition. thismleads to a pretty stupid partition-order: hde1,
hde4 and then hde3. a manual debian installation worked with that, but
[...]
I'm using brute-force - which even works, if you're providing different
revisions of the same package, as I do for my kernel-image - packages:
The idea: create a temporary directory, move each package into that
directory, dpkg-scanpackages >> Packages , sed , gzip - done.
The script is at
[...]
Mh... there isn't any user-space dhcp client used, or is it? It is the dhcp
"client" which is compiled into the kernel. Or is a dhcp-client used after
the kernel booted? I will check that...
AFAIK one is used - see subroutines-linux and search for dhcp ...
Anyway, appending
ip=demohost
Hi!
IMHO this is a recurring issue (Thomas, could you put a note in the FAI
docs?) - and I'm not really sure, how I solved it ... What could matter is
the version of the dhcp-client you are using - is it dhcp-client or
dhcp3-client? Using the latter works for me ...
Regards,
Michael
[...]
I must be missing something, so where can I see Mr. Glawe's packages?
http://www.physik.fu-berlin.de/~glaweh/pfai/
On a related note, I'd like software raid to be easier implemented via
the regular partition layout and not using a hook; is this possible?
As what I mentioned some time ago abou
Hi all!
Before I start: Happy New Year to all of you out there!!!
But back to business: Obviously Henning Glawe is working hard to merge
all changes - so are there any plans to split FAI into multiple
Debian-packages as Henning Glawe has done already?
Thanks,
Michael
Trying to "fai-sysinfo" a box that is connected to two networks. Both
nets are provided with DHCP service, but (of course) only one of them is
under my (and FAI's) control.
(This is an Alpha DS10, with two tulip interfaces. But the same would
apply to Intel machines, too.)
(BTW, is there a way to c
guys excuse me,
i didn't look at fai-example for the dhcpd.conf file.
anyway now i'm encountering a problem, whem my cfai clients boot i receive
TFTP violation error message.
Which tftpd-package are you using? Try tftpd-hpa !
when i try to run fai-chboot i see these.
aracne:/boot/fai# fai-chbo
It might have something to do with the way I install the machines too.
I give it a hostname 'disp01', but use the vctemp address for installation.
This is because I install machines on a seperate network and have them renumber
during the installation process (by having hostname.var set the new IP,
[...]
dhcpd.conf
--
allow booting;
allow bootp;
authorative;
option dhcp-max-message-size 2048;
use-host-decl-names on;
#always-reply-rfc1048 on;
filename "pxelinux.0";
option root-path "/raid/fai/nfsroot";
option domain-name "sara.nl";
option domain-name-servers 145.100.5.30, 145.100.5.47;
First of all excuse me for my poor-informations-mail.
Actually i can see from the messages of my FAI Server (host+dhcpd+nfsd) that
my FAI client doesn' accept with a DHCPACK
the DHCPOFFER from the server.
Unfortunely actually i can't send logs, i'll try to do in the day.
Can someone help me with un
Thanks guys,
I'm actually trying to install fai on debian stable woody system.
After apt-get update the version of FAI is 2.6.3.
I suppose to set up all correctly, but when my pxe-diskless client would try
to boot i see in the messages FAI Server the dhcp that never sent a DHCPACK
to
my FAI modules
Hi all!
I tried ftar for the first time - and it cleaned up my scripts-directory!
IMHO the following lines are very very bad:
[ $deletefiles -eq 1 ] && cd $target/$dir && rm -f .* * 2>/dev/null
[ $removedir -eq 1 ] && cd $target/$dir && rm -rf .* * 2>/dev/null
Since I didn't set -d or -r, the cd
>>
> This would probably be nice, since this would IMHO support SPARC too;
> meanwhile I reworked your script to use fdisk - would there be any
> public interest in such a patch?
I may have a look at the patch, but using fdisk does not solve the
problem for other architectures. We need
His work is very valuable, and it would be nice to see it in FAI HEAD.
Well, I had a deeper look at it - it looks really nice, but what is the
reason that, even if there exists a checked out version on the
target-host, the whole config-dir is copied to some other location?
Regards,
Michael
On Sat, Aug 28, 2004 at 06:23:38PM +0200, Michael Tautschnig wrote:
- start the update-process from one single server, not on the client
Update has to be done on the client: how else can it access the local
filesystem ? In my setup, the server starts the update processes on the
clients via the
I had a somewhat different idea:
- start the update-process from one single server, not on the client
- push the conffiles to the client
- tell the client, what to do with the new files
For all of that I intend to use cvs-hooks and the rcsinfo-file; there I
specify the command to run on the destin
The version (forked around 2.3; some things are backported from FAI HEAD,
some others got merged into FAI) currently used in my faculty can be found at
http://www.physik.fu-berlin.de/~glaweh/fai/
Is there any documentation describing the changes? What is needed to make
changes using your scripts?
1. Make FAI install a FAI installer ( recursion is your friend ).
Where's the problem? put your configs together, add "fai" to the
package-list and run "make-fai-nfsroot" -or am I missing something?
2. Have the machines update configs AFTER install.
I'm working on a CVS-based solution for that (u
> Does anyone have any suggestions on how to automate the process to get
> java installed during a fai build? i've tried expect and not had much
> luck with it so far.
Just hack it :-) I grabbed the source-packages from blackdown.org,
modified the debian/postinst (AFAIK remove the "read"-Command),
> Hi folks,
>
> i managed to get fai working up to a certain stage. the client boots from
> diskette and the installation procedure runs just fine, but after the final
> reboot the newly installed machine does not find the os. a rescue boot from
> cd does find all the partitions and the system seem
>
> mount: : failed, reason \
> given by server: Permission denied
> Can't mount : to \
> /usr/lib/fai/nfsroot//mnt2.
> No diversion `diversion of /sbin/discover by fai', none removed
> umount: /usr/lib/fai/nfsroot//mnt2: not mounted
>
Hi!
This usually means, that your setup of /etc/e
Can you "ping" your client? Is there any packet-filter in place?
Regards,
Michael
On Friday, 16. April 2004 01:38, you wrote:
> > From: Michael Tautschnig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > Date: 2004/04/15 Thu PM 11:14:32 GMT
> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > Subject: Re: Trouble with NFS mount...
> >
> > Are you sure you got the right netma
On Tuesday, 06. April 2004 13:25, you wrote:
> I have Debain Sid installed and I have apt configured for unstable.
>
Have you checked what "really" happened to your system, e.g. has /etc/passwd
been removed or anything like that? Are you sure, *only* the package fai has
been removed?
Regards,
Mi
On Tuesday, 06. April 2004 17:34, Jim Smith wrote:
> Sorry for the confustion but I have Debain stable installed and apt is
> configued for unstable.
Does this mean that you have already found the error or is it still not
obvious?
Regards,
Michael
[...]
Maybe english allows a wider discussion...
>
> Dies sind Vorschlaege fuer einige Topics
>
> - Jeder berichtet ueber seinen Einsatz von FAI, seine Probleme dabei
> und moegliche Loesungen
> - Gemeinsam Bugs fixen (a la bug squashing party)
> - neue Features vorstellen oder planen und teilw
So - what does your logfile look like now?
Those apt -messages should have gone...
Regards,
Michael
On Wednesday, 03. March 2004 13:58, you wrote:
> >>>>> On Fri, 27 Feb 2004 22:15:04 +0100, Michael Tautschnig
> >>>>> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
> >>>>>
> > Hello!
> > I'm currently installing some systems utiliz
ation? What about official support for kernel
2.6?
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