Re: [xcat-user] Support parallel bzip/gzip implementations?

2014-01-28 Thread Christopher Samuel
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi Daniel, On 29/01/14 08:15, Daniel M. Weeks wrote: > Yes, I quite agree. Please see the attached (rough) patch that we > use on our production install. It could easily be adapted to other > implementations. I had a quick play with that and didn't

[xcat-user] [PATCH] configmic bug

2014-01-28 Thread Christopher Samuel
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi all, Found another xCAT bug, this time with the /opt/xcat/sbin/configmic that is used to bring the MIC cards up. For some reason on our system when this script runs the values of $nodename is the short form hostname and $nodename_short is the long

Re: [xcat-user] [PATCH] confignics postscript bug

2014-01-28 Thread Christopher Samuel
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 29/01/14 14:08, Guang Cheng Li wrote: > A nice catch, I updated the changes into xCAT 2.8.4 and 2.9. No worries, thanks for committing it so quickly! All the best, Chris - -- Christopher SamuelSenior Systems Administrator VLSCI - Victo

Re: [xcat-user] [PATCH] confignics postscript bug

2014-01-28 Thread Guang Cheng Li
HI Christopher, A nice catch, I updated the changes into xCAT 2.8.4 and 2.9. 2.8.4: commit 5ac1ebaa633e42101bb7eb8a7c26db241dfaa4f2 2.9: commit 179a62145be1d9c46d23a1978c220cc40834db5f Thanks, - Li,Guang Cheng (李光成) IBM Ch

[xcat-user] [PATCH] confignics postscript bug

2014-01-28 Thread Christopher Samuel
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi folks, We were puzzled when upgrading from xCAT 2.8.2 to 2.8.3 about why our IB interfaces were suddenly not coming up any more, confignics was saying (for example): confignics on barcoo064: unknown nic type for ib0: 10.4.102.64 . I was worried i

Re: [xcat-user] Support parallel bzip/gzip implementations?

2014-01-28 Thread Daniel M. Weeks
On 01/28/2014 12:16 AM, Christopher Samuel wrote: > Hi folks, > > One thing that we notice with stateless nodes and software kits is > that it can take quite a while to compress with bzip2. > > However, for RHEL EPEL there are two parallel bzip2 implementations > (pbzip2 and lbzip2) and a paralle

Re: [xcat-user] gettyset seems to be broken with RHEL 6 xcat 2.8.3 ttyS1

2014-01-28 Thread David Johnson
Ok, solved my own problem. I changed the serial port number from 0 to 1 in nodehm. These are first non IBM nodes in the cluster, a bit of a learning curve dealing with them. -- ddj Dave Johnson > On Jan 28, 2014, at 3:26 PM, Linda Mellor wrote: > > Is this a diskless image? I see some stu

Re: [xcat-user] gettyset seems to be broken with RHEL 6 xcat 2.8.3 ttyS1

2014-01-28 Thread Linda Mellor
Is this a diskless image? I see some stuff in genimage that creates /etc/init.d/gettyset, and has some comments about RHEL6 open($cfgfile,">","$rootimg_dir/etc/init.d/gettyset"); : print $cfgfile " if [ -x /sbin/initctl ]; then\n"; # Upstart style

[xcat-user] gettyset seems to be broken with RHEL 6 xcat 2.8.3 ttyS1

2014-01-28 Thread David D Johnson
I'm baffled where gettyset actually comes from... in any case, the there are error messages coming from gettyset since we moved from RHEL 5 to RHEL 6. Machines with console redirection on ttyS0 seem to end up working OK, but I have new machines where the console is on ttyS1. No booting info sh