Re: [Oscar-users] Is Oscar DEAD???????

2012-07-20 Thread geoffroy . vallee
This kind of negative and non-constructive feedback only push me in one direction: do whatever I want without paying attention to any kind of feedback. As it is today, i am paying attention to Olivier Lahaye feedback and requirements because he is the only one who actually try to help. I am no

Re: [Oscar-users] ubuntu 12.04

2012-07-06 Thread geoffroy . vallee
Yes but development is required and i cannot give a timeline. But i need the 12.04 support so it will come. - Mail original - De: "Andrzej Kosior" À: oscar-users@lists.sourceforge.net Envoyé: Lundi 2 Juillet 2012 06:36:36 Objet: [Oscar-users] ubuntu 12.04 Hi, will there be a support fo

Re: [Oscar-users] Is Oscar DEAD???????

2012-07-06 Thread geoffroy . vallee
Hello, No OSCAR is not yet dead, i just went through a bad period during which i did not have time to work on OSCAR. This will change and go back to normal very soon (within a few weeks). My 2 cents, - Mail original - De: "Rob Merritt" À: "oscar-users@lists.sourceforge.net" Envoyé: M

Re: [Oscar-users] Oscar-users Digest, Vol 67, Issue 3

2012-07-06 Thread geoffroy . vallee
Hello, I will be working on OSCAR again very shortly so the project is not yet completely dead. My 2 cents, - Mail original - De: "Mike Kidson" À: oscar-users@lists.sourceforge.net Envoyé: Jeudi 14 Juin 2012 11:56:47 Objet: Re: [Oscar-users] Oscar-users Digest, Vol 67, Issue 3 Hi W

Re: [Oscar-users] Problem starting oscar_wizard

2011-07-19 Thread Geoffroy VALLEE
ing to support a locally modified version of OSCAR. Submit your patches, i will include them and then support your distribution. Regards, -- Geoffroy Vallee, project chair. -- Magic Quadrant for Content-Aware Data Lo

Re: [Oscar-users] Oscar 6.1.1r9435 on Scientific Linux 6.0

2011-07-19 Thread geoffroy . vallee
Hello, As i said before: SL 6.0 is _not_ yet fully supported, it is not yet ready for deployment by "normal users", i.e., people that are not involved in development. Best regards, - "Olaf Lübben" a écrit : > Dear all, > > I have installed the RHEL 6 unstable packages on SL 6.0. ATM I am

Re: [Oscar-users] Problem starting oscar_wizard

2011-06-29 Thread geoffroy . vallee
Hello, Can you please clarify the following points which are very unclear to me: - You try to upgrade an existing install? If not, why do you say that you had specific config files in /etc/oscar - Did you successfully run oscar-config before to run oscar_wizard? - Did you successfully install OSC

Re: [Oscar-users] installation question

2011-06-13 Thread geoffroy . vallee
Hi, Well, if you are using OSCAR 5.1, i cannot help you. But if you have a kernel panic both using 5.1 and 6.1.x, it clearly means that this is a problem related to the hardware configuration. Can you give me more details about the kernel panic? Thanks, - ghot...@gmail.com a écrit : > I

Re: [Oscar-users] installation question

2011-06-03 Thread geoffroy . vallee
Hello, You should not need to do the rsync trick. About the modules, i do not know at the moment, but i really think the first step is not understand why rsync is not correctly setup. Regards, - ghot...@gmail.com a écrit : > So, I tracked down at least one of the issues: systemimager did

Re: [Oscar-users] installation question

2011-06-03 Thread geoffroy . vallee
Hello, Here is some information: 1/ I do not see any problem here. What is the problem? As far as i know most packages still need testing with OSCAR 6.x so they are not yet in "Default". 2/ It is using online repositories, which is slower than local ones. Setup a local mirror for your RPM and

[Oscar-users] OSCAR 6.1.1 has been released

2011-05-31 Thread geoffroy . vallee
oscar-users mailing list. Best regards, Geoffroy Vallee Project Chair -- Simplify data backup and recovery for your virtual environment with vRanger. Installation's a snap, and flexible recovery options mean your da

[Oscar-users] Online OSCAR repositories are available

2011-05-14 Thread Geoffroy VALLEE
Hello, The OSCAR repositories are now back online. I would like to thank my colleagues and all ORNL staff who made that possible. We are also working on setting up a mirroring solution in collaboration with Tennessee Tech University in order to avoid similar disruptions in the future. Thanks, -

Re: [Oscar-users] [Oscar-devel] Online OSCAR repositories not available

2011-05-14 Thread Geoffroy VALLEE
Hello, The OSCAR repositories are now back online. I would like to thank my colleagues and all ORNL staff who made that possible. We are also working on setting up a mirroring solution in collaboration with Tennessee Tech University in order to avoid similar disruptions in the future. Thanks,

Re: [Oscar-users] Help

2011-03-09 Thread geoffroy . vallee
Hello, Suse is not officially supported and yum will definitively need to be installed if you want to use OSCAR. Because Suse is not officially supported, the distro is not correctly detected (the error you had earlier). The devel doc actually give some details about how to support a new distro

Re: [Oscar-users] Help

2011-03-09 Thread geoffroy . vallee
Hi, Siavash is right, these two questions are essential. It will also help if you tell us which Linux distribution you are using and also if you can send the /var/log/oscar/bootstrap.log file. Regards, - "siavash ghiasvand" a écrit : > Hi, > > > which version was used?! > can you expla

Re: [Oscar-users] Problem installing opkg-torque-server

2011-03-09 Thread geoffroy . vallee
Hello, I opened a ticket: http://svn.oscar.openclustergroup.org/trac/oscar/ticket/609 Regards, - "César Ávila" a écrit : > sudo apt-get install opkg-torque-server > Reading package lists... Done > Building dependency tree > Reading state information... Done > The following extra packages w

Re: [Oscar-users] Oscar installation Problem

2011-03-09 Thread geoffroy . vallee
Hello, I am not support OSCAR 5.x but if you switch to oscar 6.1 and if you have issues, i will be happy to try to help you. If you decide to do so, i advice you to use the "unstable" version since i pushed a few fixes in unstable that are not yet available in stable (but should be soon). Rega

Re: [Oscar-users] easiest way to "localize" a node on install

2011-03-09 Thread geoffroy . vallee
Hello, If the modification is the same on all nodes, update the file in the image, and use the c3 tools to push to files to compute nodes. Regards, - "Mitchell Baker" a écrit : > I am looking for the easiest way to finish off the configuration of a > node. I have a couple of mount points

Re: [Oscar-users] reconfigure disk partition on image

2011-03-09 Thread geoffroy . vallee
Hey, /var/lib/systemimager/scripts is the directory you are looking for. However, i strongly discourage you to do so, you can mess things up and because these files are core files, it will be almost impossible to help you if something breaks. Regards, - "César Ávila" a écrit : > I alrea

Re: [Oscar-users] opkg-torque error

2011-03-09 Thread geoffroy . vallee
Hello, As said many times on the mailing list, there is an updated version in the "unstable" repository. Please use it and if it works properly, please let me know so i can push it to the "stable" repository. So far, i got zero feedback, reason why the packages are still in unstable. Also, plea

Re: [Oscar-users] Proper way to reconfig cluster???

2011-02-28 Thread geoffroy . vallee
Hi, I looked at DCC a long time ago and i won't claim that what i did is yet at the same level. I will try to find the time to document what i have, i used it on one of my clusters and if you know what you are doing, it makes your life easier (not perfect but useful). I will try to write the do

Re: [Oscar-users] Proper way to reconfig cluster???

2011-02-28 Thread geoffroy . vallee
Mitch, When you define clients, you actually choose the image: http://svn.oscar.openclustergroup.org/trac/oscar/wiki/InstallGuideClusterInstall#DefineClients So you can delete clients and redefine them based on another image. Regards, - "Mitchell Baker" a écrit : > I have since updated t

Re: [Oscar-users] Installing packages manually

2011-02-28 Thread geoffroy . vallee
Cesar, You can change the configuration on the server, and then on the image and sync the compute nodes. The best solution will be to help stabilizing the OSCAR packages, at least for ganglia, mpi and torque. Basic things are already there but work is still needed. Regards, - "César Ávila

Re: [Oscar-users] Proper way to reconfig cluster???

2011-02-28 Thread geoffroy . vallee
Mitch, Can you explain what you mean by reconfig the cluster? If you mean update/change the image there is two solutions: 1/ the safe one: you create a new image and redeploy it, 2/ the experimental way: you install packages into the image and sync the nodes; this tool is still under development

Re: [Oscar-users] Error on OSCAR installation

2011-02-25 Thread geoffroy . vallee
DongInn, Can you give me the content of the /etc/apt/sources.list file? With Ubuntu 10.04, i do not have the problem: $ apt-cache show tcsh Package: tcsh Priority: optional Section: universe/shells Installed-Size: 760 Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers Original-Maintainer: Lucas Nussbaum Architectur

Re: [Oscar-users] linpack on Oscar 6

2011-02-22 Thread geoffroy . vallee
Peter, It depends which MPI you installed. Did you look into /opt to see if there is LAM or Open-MPI? Regards, - "Peter Martin" a écrit : > Geoffroy, > > > I think I have linpack mostly figured out, I am just stuck on the > location of MPI. Would I be able to generate a path to MPI from

Re: [Oscar-users] linpack on Oscar 6

2011-02-18 Thread geoffroy . vallee
Peter, There is no differences in installing linpack on an OSCAR cluster and any other cluster. You can find many tutorial and howto documents on the web, which i think will be the best starting point. A link that could be of interest for you: OSCAR on RPM based Linux distributions is using mod

Re: [Oscar-users] Problem with GUI on CentOS 5.5

2011-02-16 Thread geoffroy . vallee
Nikita, Did you try to contact SystemImager developers? It seems to me that they have much more experience to track and understand this kind of problems. Regards, - "Nikita Andreev" a écrit : > Dear Geoffroy, > > Thanks for the tip. I've changed rsync verbosity level at the server > and

Re: [Oscar-users] Cannot define oscar clients in oscar 6.1 (Ubuntu 10.04 x86_64)

2011-02-15 Thread geoffroy . vallee
Cesar, On Debian the default package set actually gathers only the OSCAR core (minimal install). About the experimental package set, some packages may effectively be missing. oscarv is not a surprise (since i removed the package, i am not satisfied with initial implementation i did), but i wil

Re: [Oscar-users] Cannot define oscar clients in oscar 6.1 (Ubuntu 10.04 x86_64)

2011-02-15 Thread geoffroy . vallee
Cesar, Just update the packages, it should be installed automatically. Then, just create a new image. Thanks, - "César Ávila" a écrit : > should I go back to installing oscar server packages then? > > > > 2011/2/15 < geoffroy.val...@free.fr > > > > Cesar, > > I just uploaded the Deb

Re: [Oscar-users] Problem with GUI on CentOS 5.5

2011-02-15 Thread geoffroy . vallee
Nikita, Try to have a look a the scripts in /var/lib/systemimager/scripts, you will find all the scripts using rsync for the installation of the clients. On my side, I will have another look at the latest modification of the setup_pxe script and see if it is not a tricky corner case. Thanks,

Re: [Oscar-users] Cannot define oscar clients in oscar 6.1 (Ubuntu 10.04 x86_64)

2011-02-15 Thread geoffroy . vallee
Cesar, I just uploaded the Debian packages (RPMs will follow shortly for RHEL users). Typically, there is a new version of opkg-c3-server that will automatically install c3-contrib, package which contains the missing script. Therefore, this should fix your problem. Sorry again for not uploading

Re: [Oscar-users] Cannot define oscar clients in oscar 6.1 (Ubuntu 10.04 x86_64)

2011-02-15 Thread geoffroy . vallee
Cesar, I fixed the problem, it is now in trunk but i did not have the time to regenerate the binary packages. My apologies for that, i will do so as soon as possible (i will let you know when it will be done, hopefully very shortly). Thanks, - "César Ávila" a écrit : > After building t

Re: [Oscar-users] Problem with GUI on CentOS 5.5

2011-02-15 Thread geoffroy . vallee
Nikita, The code behind rsync is exactly the same in unstable and the other repository. The only difference is a little patch to setup PXE. Did you try to restart the rsync daemon to see if it fixes the problem? I can see that the connection is reset, kind of like if a headnode drops the connec

Re: [Oscar-users] Problem with GUI on CentOS 5.5

2011-02-15 Thread geoffroy . vallee
Nikita, There is almost no difference so why do you want to do that? I ask the question because there is no well defined way to do so and i will send time on this kind of things only for good reasons. Also, i am about to release 6.1.1 so we will have almost no difference between unstable and th

Re: [Oscar-users] Problem with GUI on CentOS 5.5

2011-02-14 Thread geoffroy . vallee
Nikita, Once again: - LAM has an issue, i did not look at it yet. - Torque/MAUI has issues, i pushed new RPMs into unstable; i do not know if you are using unstable, if so, it will be nice to send me the output otherwise i cannot progress (if you are not using unstable, no solution at the moment

Re: [Oscar-users] Undefined subroutine &OSCAR::NodeMgr::is_headnodecalled at /opt/sync_files/bin/sync_files line 146.

2011-02-14 Thread geoffroy . vallee
Nikolay, Interesting, could you please tell me if the command "domainname" return "(none)"? Regards, - "Nikolay Khokhlov" a écrit : > Hello, > > No, i'm using base CentOS-5.5 installation. > > > Sat, 12 Feb 2011 16:46:58 +0100 (CET) письмо от > geoffroy.val...@free.fr: > > > Hello, >

Re: [Oscar-users] Setup Network Boot PXE Error

2011-02-14 Thread geoffroy . vallee
Peter, Thanks for testing, i will release 6.1.1 as soon as possible. Regards, - "Peter Martin" a écrit : > Geoffroy, > > I can confirm that the unstable repos fixed the problem. > > Oscar version: 6.1.1svn02132011 > > Stopping Flamethrower daemon: ok. > Stopping SystemImager's BitTorren

Re: [Oscar-users] Setup Network Boot PXE Error

2011-02-12 Thread geoffroy . vallee
Peter, Based on your email, i read the setup_pxe code and i think you found the first bug in the OSCAR core since 6.1.0 has been released. :( I pushed a new set of RPMs to unstable to see if it works better, can you please switch to unstable and give it a try? For that, if you have a i386 archi

Re: [Oscar-users] Problem with GUI on CentOS 5.5

2011-02-12 Thread geoffroy . vallee
Nikita, It will be very useful if you give me the command you execute at the same time, typically from the bash prompt to the end of the output. With the command, it seems to me that you try to remove/install only a single RPM. Can you please try to remove all the torque RPMs with a single comm

Re: [Oscar-users] Setup Network Boot PXE Error

2011-02-12 Thread geoffroy . vallee
Peter, A couple of questions to try to track the problem: 1/ is the file /usr/share/syslinux there, 2/ is the directory /tftpboot there and write accessible. Thanks, - "Peter Martin" a écrit : > Geoffroy, > > It seems that the syslinux package is installed. > > [root@master ~]# yum insta

Re: [Oscar-users] Setup Network Boot PXE Error

2011-02-12 Thread geoffroy . vallee
Peter, Can you check if the syslinux RPM is installed? pxelinux.0 is not installed by OSCAR itself but by a package from CentOS. Thanks, - "Peter Martin" a écrit : > Hi > > I installed oscar 6.1 onto centOS 5.5 i386 > > I followed all the instructions and on Step 6, clicking Setup Netwo

Re: [Oscar-users] Installation of Oscar 6.1 on Ubuntu 10.04.1

2011-02-12 Thread geoffroy . vallee
Can you send me the bootstrap log so i can check point 3? About point 1 and 2, these are typical issues with Ubuntu, nothing i can do on my side. We were using mirrors in the past but then you have the risk that the mirror is not up-to-date. This is why we typically use the default repositories.

Re: [Oscar-users] Installation of Oscar 6.1 on Ubuntu 10.04.1

2011-02-12 Thread geoffroy . vallee
Well, actually the problem is that the documentation is not accurate. If you install oscar-base, libappconfig-perl is automatically installed. I just updated the doc, thanks for the report, - "César Ávila" a écrit : > I think you should also consider including libappconfig-perl as a > pac

Re: [Oscar-users] Installation of Oscar 6.1 on Ubuntu 10.04.1

2011-02-12 Thread geoffroy . vallee
The entry should be: deb http://bison.csm.ornl.gov/repos/unstable/debian-5-x86_64/ lenny / Thanks, - "César Ávila" a écrit : > Just to be clear, for sources.list I should now use > deb http://bison.csm.ornl.gov/repos/unstable/debian-5-x86_64 lenny / > > I will test it right now. > > 2011

Re: [Oscar-users] Installation of Oscar 6.1 on Ubuntu 10.04.1

2011-02-12 Thread geoffroy . vallee
Cesar, I think i fixed all the issues you reported, please use unstable. The mysql-server issue should be fixed if you update to 6.1.0-4. I did a test with install_prereq and it gives me the correct list of packages, including the correct mysql-server (using Ubuntu-10.04). Regards, - "Cés

Re: [Oscar-users] Problem with GUI on CentOS 5.5

2011-02-12 Thread geoffroy . vallee
Nikita, I uploaded a new set of RPMs about 11h ago (torque-oscar-2.1.14-1). They fix a few reported issues and a few issues i found on my side just by reading the spec file used for the RPM creation. If you can give them a try, that will be great. Regards, - "Nikita Andreev" a écrit : >

Re: [Oscar-users] Problem with GUI on CentOS 5.5

2011-02-12 Thread geoffroy . vallee
Nikita, What is the output when you run that command? Thanks, - "Nikita Andreev" a écrit : > Geoffroy, > > I've tried that. I've removed all torque-related packages. Same error > pops up. > > Regards, > > -Original Message- > From: geoffroy.val...@free.fr [mailto:geoffroy.val...

Re: [Oscar-users] Undefined subroutine &OSCAR::NodeMgr::is_headnode called at /opt/sync_files/bin/sync_files line 146.

2011-02-12 Thread geoffroy . vallee
Hello, Thanks for the patch it is now in SVN (r9377). Based on the problem, are you using a configuration using NIS? Regards, - "Nikolay Khokhlov" a écrit : > At line 146: > if (OSCAR::NodeMgr::is_headnode () == 1) { > > Replase with: > if (OSCAR::NodeMgt::is_headnode () == 1) { > > and

Re: [Oscar-users] Problem with GUI on CentOS 5.5

2011-02-11 Thread geoffroy . vallee
Nikita, Try to manually remove the RPMs: yum remove torque-oscar torque-oscar-server torque-oscar-scheduler Then, you should be good. Regards, - "Nikita Andreev" a écrit : > Dear Geoffroy, > > While trying to update to new package versions from repository I get > dependency resolution pr

Re: [Oscar-users] Installation of Oscar 6.1 on Ubuntu 10.04.1

2011-02-11 Thread geoffroy . vallee
Cesar, I found a bug in the OSCAR package compiler that was creating these issues. I really do not know why they installed successfully on my system, it does not make any sense. Anyway, thanks for switching to the official repositories, it remove a parameter when i track issues. I already uplo

[Oscar-users] New Torque RPMs in unstable for RHEL-5-x86_64

2011-02-11 Thread geoffroy . vallee
Dear OSCAR users, I am still trying to fix the issues of the current OSCAR package for Torque. I fixed a couple of issues and uploaded a new set of packages on the unstable repository for RHEL-5-x86_64 (that also supports CentOS). I do not have access to a RHEL cluster at the moment so if someon

Re: [Oscar-users] Installation of Oscar 6.1 on Ubuntu 10.04.1

2011-02-11 Thread geoffroy . vallee
It is unfair to say the error is exactely the same, this time, only opkg-sis is having a problem. I will double-check the package again and see what i can do. - "César Ávila" a écrit : > I am now using bison.csm.ornl.gov server and still getting the same > errors. Previously, I had changed

Re: [Oscar-users] Installation of Oscar 6.1 on Ubuntu 10.04.1

2011-02-11 Thread geoffroy . vallee
Then the question is: do you want to test the 6.1.0 or the devel version of OSCAR (devel version of trunk and OSCAR packages). I cannot answer that question for you. - "César Ávila" a écrit : > Thanks for the advice. But one question still remains. Should I use > bison.csm.ornl.gov/repos/u

Re: [Oscar-users] Problem with GUI on CentOS 5.5

2011-02-11 Thread geoffroy . vallee
Nikita, Then unselect Torque and give it a try. About your question OS/ version of OSCAR, there is no clear answer: it all depends which OSCAR packages you select (as i said before). If you want to make sure you can deploy the compute nodes, just select the core OSCAR packages and try to deplo

Re: [Oscar-users] Installation of Oscar 6.1 on Ubuntu 10.04.1

2011-02-11 Thread geoffroy . vallee
Cesar, Please use bison.csm.ornl.gov, i cannot reproduce your issue so if you do not use that repository, i cannot help you. I am suspecting a problem on your mirror. Yes, i could be wrong but again if you are not using our repository, i cannot help you, there is no way for me to know why the p

Re: [Oscar-users] Problem with GUI on CentOS 5.5

2011-02-11 Thread geoffroy . vallee
Dear Nikita, A configuration script from Torque (package i am currently trying to fix) failed, i will have a look as soon as possible. Otherwise, please do not pay attention to the messages "Error: No matching Packages to list" http://svn.oscar.openclustergroup.org/trac/osca/wiki/faq_install#Du

Re: [Oscar-users] Installation of Oscar 6.1 on Ubuntu 10.04.1

2011-02-10 Thread geoffroy . vallee
I just did a test on my side and they install just fine. I suspect a problem with your local repository, i strongly advice you to use the official repository, especially if you deactivated your proxy. - "César Ávila" a écrit : > The packages are available but not able to install. Indeed I

Re: [Oscar-users] Installation of Oscar 6.1 on Ubuntu 10.04.1

2011-02-10 Thread geoffroy . vallee
Cesar, It also seems that some OPKGs are not available on your mirror, can you please check if you have 3 binary packages for opkg-oda and opkg-sis. You will not be able to bootstrap OSCAR unless these packages are available. Regards, - "César Ávila" a écrit : > I am now starting with a

Re: [Oscar-users] Installation of Oscar 6.1 on Ubuntu 10.04.1

2011-02-10 Thread geoffroy . vallee
Cesar, Can you check if the /usr/share/oscar/prereqs/oda/etc/mysql.cfg file is there or not? Thanks, - "César Ávila" a écrit : > I changed from 5.0 to 5.1. Now the installation process will proceed > until it tries to initialize ODA. Is this the problem that you were > talking about in 5.

Re: [Oscar-users] Installation of Oscar 6.1 on Ubuntu 10.04.1

2011-02-10 Thread geoffroy . vallee
Can you please send updates when a problem is fixed on your side and does not require any bug fix on the OSCAR side? That will allow me to focus on the real issues. About the mysql-server issue, it is because a meta-package is/was actually half-broken (mysql-server) so we could not use it. I di

Re: [Oscar-users] Installation of Oscar 6.1 on Ubuntu 10.04.1

2011-02-10 Thread geoffroy . vallee
Cesar, Does it mean your repositories are now correctly working? Thanks, - "César Ávila" a écrit : > I am starting a new thread for installation problems of Oscar 6.1 on > Ubuntu Lucid (10.04.1 x86_64). > > Upon running oscar-config --bootstrap I get some problems with the > package versi

Re: [Oscar-users] Problems installing OSCAR 6.0.6 on Ubuntu 10.04 behind proxy

2011-02-10 Thread geoffroy . vallee
Cesar, Your configuration seems to be all screwed, even outside of OSCAR. It seems to me that even the repositories are not correctly setup so OSCAR cannot work. To get more details, can you please send me the following files: - /tftpboot/distro/ubuntu-1004-x86_64.url - /tftpboot/oscar/debian-5-x

Re: [Oscar-users] Problems installing OSCAR 6.0.6 on Ubuntu 10.04 behind proxy

2011-02-10 Thread geoffroy . vallee
Cesar, Did you also mirror the Ubuntu repository on your machine (not the OSCAR one, the one for Ubuntu itself). I just want to make sure i understand your configuration. Regards, - "César Ávila" a écrit : > I had setup a local ubuntu mirror which I can access through > 127.0.0.1. I als

Re: [Oscar-users] Problem with GUI on CentOS 5.5

2011-02-10 Thread geoffroy . vallee
Dear Nikita, Can you please unselect LAM and try to deploy the cluster? I opened a ticket about LAM, i will have a look as soon as possible (i do not know why there is a dependency to libtorque, it does not make much sense to me). http://svn.oscar.openclustergroup.org/trac/oscar/ticket/600 Reg

Re: [Oscar-users] Problems installing OSCAR 6.0.6 on Ubuntu 10.04 behind proxy

2011-02-10 Thread geoffroy . vallee
Cesar, It is not looking for http://127.0.0.1/repos/unstable/debian-5-x86_64/lenny/, as you can see in the what looks like a URL, there is a "+": we use a special notation so that OSCAR can figure out the exact path (there is actually no guarantee that the meta-files of the repo are in "dists",

Re: [Oscar-users] Oscar version 6.1 Define Oscar clients and delete Oscar clients problem

2011-02-09 Thread geoffroy . vallee
Just to give some more details about the problem... Thanks for the logs Sue sent me, I found a problem in C3, and I already submitted a patch. The problem occurs when we try to delete a node or a cluster, so if the cluster is deployed at the first try, the problem should not occur. To definit

Re: [Oscar-users] Problem with GUI on CentOS 5.5

2011-02-09 Thread geoffroy . vallee
Nikita, To really fix step 3, a modification of a script was needed. If you are using Torque, i even advice you to switch to "unstable". To really fix step 4, the scripts must be fixed so that everything can run smoothly. Otherwise, OSCAR detects that a script failed and therefore cannot compl

Re: [Oscar-users] Problem with GUI on CentOS 5.5

2011-02-09 Thread geoffroy . vallee
Nikita, As i said, you may want to try to _not_ install the third-part packages that are creating the problems, the core of OSCAR should work pretty well (a user found a problem in C3 but we already have a fix that should be available very shortly). It is not a question of version of distributi

Re: [Oscar-users] Oscar version 6.1 Define Oscar clients and delete Oscar clients problem

2011-02-09 Thread geoffroy . vallee
Sue, I will report the C3 issue to the C3 project manager. I am sure that could be fixed very quickly. Otherwise, can you please send me the full log (/var/log/oscar/bootstrap.log and /var/log/oscar/oscar_wizard.log)? BTW, using trunk, we are not using 6.1.0 but the devel version. However, bas

[Oscar-users] Need testers for Torque on RHEL/CentOS

2011-02-09 Thread geoffroy . vallee
Dear OSCAR community, OSCAR has problems with Torque since a while and i finally took the time to try to fix it based on what was already there. It resulted in a set of new RPMs for CentOS/RHEL 5 x86_64 and i need now volunteers to test these. Without testers, i won't be able to finalize the pa

Re: [Oscar-users] OSCAR-6.1.0 has been released

2011-02-09 Thread geoffroy . vallee
Cesar, 10.04.1 is just fine. The note in the documentation is more historical than anything else i think, but since i am not sure, i leave it there. Regards, - "César Ávila" a écrit : > Ok, in the installation guide it also recommends not to apply any > security update before installing O

Re: [Oscar-users] OSCAR-6.1.0 has been released

2011-02-09 Thread geoffroy . vallee
Cesar, This is typo, in fact only x86_64 is fully tested. I updated the doc on the wiki and will release 6.1.1 shortly to include the updated version (a few other minor fixes already have been included). Thanks for catching the problem! Regards, - "César Ávila" a écrit : > Is Ubuntu 10.

Re: [Oscar-users] Oscar 6.0.5 (unstable) installation notes

2011-02-09 Thread geoffroy . vallee
Ivan, All your patches are now in (sorry i completely forgot to include them earlier). I will push them into a new version of the OPKG very shortly. Thanks a lot for your contribution! Regards, - "Ivan V. Sergeyev" a écrit : > Just thought I would share my experiences here for those havin

Re: [Oscar-users] Problem with GUI on CentOS 5.5

2011-02-09 Thread geoffroy . vallee
Nikita, Based on your logs, many packages failed to install: disable-services, ganglia, lam, maui, mpich, ntpconfig, openmpi, opium, torque These packages are third-party packages and based on the logs, i cannot tell you why they were not installed successfully. So the first thing i advice you

[Oscar-users] OSCAR-6.1.0 has been released

2011-02-08 Thread geoffroy . vallee
Dear OSCAR community, OSCAR 6.1.0 has been released! This release is the first release based on the new architecture and not having known core bugs. For a complete list of modifications, please refer to the ChangeLog. The following repositories are already available: * debian-5-x86_64 (inc

Re: [Oscar-users] Oscar client installation failed

2011-02-08 Thread geoffroy . vallee
Sylvain, I do not know which version you are using but based on what you are saying, we are trying to setup a system with a raid system using /dev/cciss. This was not supported before but should work (i cannot test it myself, i do not have such hardware) with the upcoming oscar-6.1.0 (i am curr

Re: [Oscar-users] Problems installing OSCAR 6.0.6 on Ubuntu 10.04 behind proxy

2011-02-08 Thread geoffroy . vallee
Cesar, Yes you can setup your own repositories, for Ubuntu repositories, Debian tools are available and for OSCAR packages, you can use the tool oscar-packager to generate all the needed binary packages: http://svn.oscar.openclustergroup.org/trac/oscar/wiki/Building_OSCAR_Packages In fact, osca

Re: [Oscar-users] Backup / Restore question

2011-02-08 Thread geoffroy . vallee
Hello, This is not the mailing list you have in mind, this mailing list is dedicated to OSCAR cluster management tool: http://oscar.openclustergroup.org/ Regards, - "Robert Daigle" a écrit : > Hello, > > > I'm a new user, just downloaded Oscar 9-12 and playing around with it. > I think

Re: [Oscar-users] Problems installing OSCAR 6.0.6 on Ubuntu 10.04 behind proxy

2011-02-08 Thread geoffroy . vallee
Hello, You are right, at the moment, you must have access to the online repositories, otherwise it won't work. oscar-6.1.0 is about to be released, then we will have the opportunity to add my tools and functionalities to support configurations such as yours. Regards, - "César Ávila" a éc

Re: [Oscar-users] Problem with GUI on CentOS 5.5

2011-02-08 Thread geoffroy . vallee
Hi, I am having problems with Torque since a while (dependencies issues and problems building the binary packages). Unfortunately, i do not have the time to fix that specific issue at the moment, since i am focusing on the release of oscar-6.1.0 (which will _not_ support Torque at first). A ti

Re: [Oscar-users] Latest version of oscar (6+)

2011-01-21 Thread geoffroy . vallee
Rani, OSCAR 6.1.0 is about to be released (hopefully new week). However, with the 6.x series, you must have a repository to deal with OSCAR packages and we do not provide at the moment a tarball to deal with packages. As soon as 6.1.0 will be released, i am willing to extend the tools we curren

Re: [Oscar-users] Unable to install oscar from repository

2011-01-21 Thread geoffroy . vallee
Jennifer, Yes the server went down for a couple of hours but should be back online now. Please let me know if you have any further issue. Regards, - "Jennifer Hadley" a écrit : > [root@bayes redhat-el-5-x86_64]# yum install oscar > Loaded plugins: rhnplugin, security > http://bison.csm.or

[Oscar-users] server bison.csm.ornl.gov is back online

2010-05-20 Thread geoffroy . vallee
Hello, The server bison.csm.ornl.gov is back online so the OSCAR repositories are accessible again (the hardware problem has been resolved). Regards, -- ___ Oscar-users maili

Re: [Oscar-users] Detailed error

2010-04-23 Thread geoffroy . vallee
Then, Nicolas, please accept my apologizes, i misunderstood, i thought you were making fun on the efforts put in OSCAR. I am very sorry. It does not change anything to my other email: no logs, no help and i still think you are not really interested in getting help from me. - "Nicolas Triant

Re: [Oscar-users] 6.0.5 - issues and fixes

2010-04-23 Thread geoffroy . vallee
Listen, if i tell you i need the logs, it is because i need the logs, i do not ask people to send me verbose logs for fun but to help. Without the logs, i cannot know the configuration of OSCAR on your system and i cannot know which parts of OSCAR are active or not. Now, it seems you want to be

Re: [Oscar-users] opkg-torque-server & client dependency problems

2010-04-22 Thread geoffroy . vallee
Laurent, The solution is simple: push the modulefile RPM on the server (the RPM is currently missing). I currently do not have that RPM, if someone can send it to me, i will put it on the repo, otherwise, you will have to wait for me to put it and honestly i do not know when i will be able to d

Re: [Oscar-users] opkg-torque-server & client dependency problems

2010-04-22 Thread geoffroy . vallee
Hello, Thanks this is now fixed in trunk (r9206). Best regards, - "Ivan V. Sergeyev" a écrit : > Hi, > I am trying to install the latest unstable (6.0.5) version of oscar > on CentOS 5.4 x86_64. All packages are up to date as of today, 4/7/10. > opkg-torque-server and opkg-torque-client

Re: [Oscar-users] Detailed error

2010-04-22 Thread geoffroy . vallee
And with words like that, you can be sure you will never get any help from me... :) Good luck to you two... :) - "Nicolas Triantafillou" a écrit : > Minor correction here: > > > I can't really understand why one works and the > > upgraded one doesn't :) > > Should be 'Can't understand wh

Re: [Oscar-users] Detailed error

2010-04-22 Thread geoffroy . vallee
Hello all, Again and as usual: if you want to get help, please send the _full_ logs, otherwise it is impossible for me to help. Regards, - "Kevin Farrell" a écrit : > Hi Stephen, > > Yes, I am getting precisely that error. I tried installing CentOS 5.3 > i386 thinking it might be an issu

Re: [Oscar-users] 6.0.5 - issues and fixes

2010-04-22 Thread geoffroy . vallee
Nicolas, If you do not give the associated logs, your details are almost useless. It also look like you did not bootstrap OSCAR. Regards, - "Nicolas Triantafillou" a écrit : > Hi, > > Not sure if I should send this to dev or this list, so I sent it > here. > > Installing 6.0.5 in CentOS

Re: [Oscar-users] Advice requested on bootstrap failure

2010-04-06 Thread geoffroy . vallee
Hello, Please update your debian packages (assuming you have a x86_64 platform and try again, many bugs have been fixed. Let me know if you still have issues. Thanks, - "Carter N." a écrit : > Hi all, > > I'm trying to set up Oscar 6.0.4 with Ubuntu 8.04 on a Dell Optiplex > 755 > with t

Re: [Oscar-users] help

2010-04-06 Thread geoffroy . vallee
Hello, Please update your system, new binary packages for OSCAR are now available. Then, let me know if you still have the problem. Thanks, - "hamid nosrati" a écrit : > i have a problem in installing oscar on "centos 5.4 x_86" > > whenever i trying to install oscar with command "oscar-c

Re: [Oscar-users] /home mount failed, ssh server->node / node->server failed

2010-04-06 Thread geoffroy . vallee
Hello, Please update your RPM to install the binary packages for oscar-6.0.5 and let me know if you still have the problem. Thanks, - "Nicolas Triantafillou" a écrit : > Thanks for that Joe, I'll check into it after our easter long weekend. > > > Does anyone have any idea why the oscart

Re: [Oscar-users] help

2010-04-06 Thread geoffroy . vallee
Hello, For OSCAR-6.x, if the distro you are looking for is not in the list of supported distros, it means that the distro is not supported for that specific version of OSCAR, even if we reference it later in the documentation. Regards, - "Alfonso Mendez Tenorio" a écrit : > Dear friends

[Oscar-users] OSCAR 6.0.5 finally available

2010-04-06 Thread geoffroy . vallee
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Re: [Oscar-users] Problem il step 6

2009-12-18 Thread geoffroy . vallee
Hey Giacomo, No need to apologize, i am the first to do mistakes. :-) Let me know how it works, OSCAR is really supposed to pick it up and use the correct pxe file. Thanks, - "Giacomo Carella" a écrit : > Dear Geoffroy, > sorry for the mistake. Yesterday I was in a hurry. The file is > a

Re: [Oscar-users] Problem il step 6

2009-12-17 Thread geoffroy . vallee
Giacomo, The file is not attached. On my side, i clearly have the /usr/lib/syslinux/pxelinux.0 file which belongs to the syslinux RPM: $ rpm -qf /usr/lib/syslinux/pxelinux.0 syslinux-3.11-4 Regards, - "Giacomo Carella" a écrit : > Dear Geoffroy, > package syslinux-3.82-1.el5.rf is insta

Re: [Oscar-users] can multihead grid?

2009-12-15 Thread geoffroy . vallee
Hello, What you are describing is not the typical configuration of a HPC cluster so you will have difficulties to do that with OSCAR. However, we target the support of such things but this is still under development and no version is available for testing. Regards, - "よっしー" a écrit : >

Re: [Oscar-users] Problem il step 6

2009-12-15 Thread geoffroy . vallee
Giacomo, To complete my previous email, the syslinux RPM is supposed to be installed when installing opkg-sis-server. Can you also check this package is installed please? Thanks, - "Giacomo Carella" a écrit : > Dear all, > after the last update (oscar devel 6.0.5r9147-1 on centos 5.4 x86

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