pvcreate fails on md raid

Hi, it seems the bug reported by Darshaka Pathirana (third issue in http://www.mail-archive.com/linux-fai@uni-koeln.de/msg03513.html) has not been fixed in 3.4.5. My system fails with the same error. Here the last lines from fai.log: [...] Executing: pvcreate /dev/md1 Command had non-zero exit

creating a chroot or virtualization environment

Hello, what is the difference between a chroot created with debootstrap and installing a chroot by running 'fai -N -v -u $hostname dirinstall -$TARGET'

Re: problems with e1000 - was: install system hangs during boot up

[...] It seems to wait for the NIC to become ready (link established) forever. No DHCP, no NFS mount so far. And no busybox because the system seems to be stuck in an endless loop :-( Hmm, so the message eth0 NIC Link is Up 1000 Mbp is just crap!? I finally put another NIC (e1000e)

Re: pvcreate fails on md raid

Hi Michael, I'm not sure whether this is actually reproducible Yes it is. Install the system, reboot and try to install again. Could you give the experimental packages a try? There, the problem is supposed to be fixed. Thanks for the hint. I gave it a try: The issue is already fixed in

Re: fai-mirror error after update to 3.4.5

(explicitly CC'ed Thomas to alert him.) Hi all, after update to 3.4.5 I get an error when running fai-mirror (system is a current debian lenny). The following command was entered (/fai/etc-config files are stored in a different location, but this should IMHO not cause the problem).

Re: fai-mirror error after update to 3.4.5

Thank you Michael, Am 04.12.2010 23:35, schrieb Michael Tautschnig: Hi Karl, Thank you for further investigating this issue; it seems like we almost concurrently posted our analyses :-) Indeed. As I pushed the send button your mail came in. (Whow, what a response time - lot better than the

Re: Patch for fcopy

On Sat, 4 Dec 2010 10:57:06 +0100, Michael Tautschnig m...@debian.org said: Thank you very much for this contribution and sorry for taking so long to respond. Thanks Michael for adding this patch. I also like to add the patch to FAI, but had no time in the past. I took the

Re: Patch for fcopy

Thanks Michael for adding this patch. I also like to add the patch to FAI, but had no time in the past. [...] If anybody could do just a very brief test of the changed version, it could then probably migrate into trunk real soon? I'll be using this modified version of fcopy on one of my