Re: client install aborts

2013-03-18 Diskussionsfäden Toomas Tamm
On Mon, 2013-03-18 at 10:00 +0100, Thomas Neumann (FAI) wrote: > On Monday 18 March 2013 03:18:53 George VerDuin wrote: > > Truthfully -- I have modified a few things but I can not get back to > > conditions where the black screen existed. So I have no reproducible > > problem and simple modificat

Re: client install aborts

2013-03-18 Diskussionsfäden Thomas Neumann (FAI)
On Monday 18 March 2013 03:18:53 George VerDuin wrote: > Truthfully -- I have modified a few things but I can not get back to > conditions where the black screen existed. So I have no reproducible > problem and simple modification. That's a bit unfortunate. Would have been nice to know what was c

Re: client install aborts

2013-03-17 Diskussionsfäden George VerDuin
On 03/15/2013 06:08 PM, Thomas Neumann wrote: Hello >>SNIP<< I'm a bit stumped on why you are getting a black screen (now/again/at all). I have no solution for you to add into your "bag of tricks"...:-( The black screen bug is dead and I now see the red-color FAI text logo for the first tim

Re: client install aborts

2013-03-17 Diskussionsfäden Thomas Lange
> On Sat, 16 Mar 2013 22:42:08 -0400, George VerDuin > said: > I believe I saw somewhere that fai supports a ssh login during system > build time, uid=fai & pwd=fai. user=root pw=fai during installation time. > And I suppose I could remove the "reboot" flag to give me more

Re: client install aborts

2013-03-16 Diskussionsfäden George VerDuin
It's interesting [to me] Thomas On 03/16/2013 04:32 PM, Thomas Lange wrote: On Sat, 16 Mar 2013 13:27:52 -0400, George VerDuin said: > missed? -- after the black screen fai continues to build for another > 4-1/2 minutes before the fai-client automatically re-boots. NFS > cont

Re: client install aborts

2013-03-16 Diskussionsfäden Thomas Lange
> On Sat, 16 Mar 2013 13:27:52 -0400, George VerDuin > said: > missed? -- after the black screen fai continues to build for another > 4-1/2 minutes before the fai-client automatically re-boots. NFS > continues to deliver server content to the client that totals 79k >

Re: client install aborts

2013-03-16 Diskussionsfäden George VerDuin
Very good Thomas, it is a "baby step" forward. On 03/15/2013 06:08 PM, Thomas Neumann wrote: ... On top of that I provided a link to the related bug report (also to the LVM bug report) *phew* :-) Ah. Forget about grub for now. Back then I assumed you were having trouble with booting / debugg

Re: client install aborts

2013-03-15 Diskussionsfäden Thomas Neumann
Hello On Friday, March 15, 2013 10:05:43 PM George VerDuin wrote: >> It sounds very much like a NFSv4 problem. Please compare with >> http://wiki.fai- >> project.org/wiki/Installation_walkthrough#single_network_interface > > OK -- this patch did modify the results and allow the install process to

Re: client install aborts

2013-03-15 Diskussionsfäden George VerDuin
OK Thomas -- thanks On 03/15/2013 02:53 PM, Thomas Neumann wrote: fai 4.x? Yes -- 4.0.6 from the project repo. It sounds very much like a NFSv4 problem. Please compare with http://wiki.fai- project.org/wiki/Installation_walkthrough#single_network_interface OK -- this patch did modify the

Re: client install aborts

2013-03-15 Diskussionsfäden Thomas Neumann
On Friday, March 15, 2013 07:36:49 PM George VerDuin wrote: > I'm sorry to have to ask, but does anyone recognise the cause for this > kernel panic? > At the time of failure, fai-client is installing > .../fai-doc/samples/simple [demohost]. > > ... > /init: 42: //lib/dracut/hooks/pre-pivot/50mount

client install aborts

2013-03-15 Diskussionsfäden George VerDuin
I'm sorry to have to ask, but does anyone recognise the cause for this kernel panic? At the time of failure, fai-client is installing .../fai-doc/samples/simple [demohost]. ... /init: 42: //lib/dracut/hooks/pre-pivot/50mount-usr.sh: cannot open /sysroot/etc/fstab: No such file rcpbind: rcpbin