Re: [xcat-user] [External] otherpkg packages version conflict

You will need to add an exclude line in the repository that you don’t want to pull Slurm from. In your case the Epel repository. [epel]name=Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 7 - $basearchmetalink=https://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/metalink?repo=epel-7&arch=$basearch&infra=$infra&content=$contentdi

[xcat-user] Disable external repos on stateful install

Can somebody explain what is supposed to disable the external OS package repositories during a statefull install.? I have a cluster where it looks like this was happening, but I just rebuilt a compute node and it didn’t happen causing that node to pull in a newer kernel package that I wasn’t rea

Re: [xcat-user] [External] Re: Postscript remoteshell not working on RHEL8 compute node

o check whether the xCAT default values for SSL_version here are compatible with the version of OpenSSL running on the RHEL8 compute nodes. https://github.com/xcat2/xcat-core/blob/1dea6334b3ba00337fee66a2bab37a6a1b09dbd5/xCAT-server/sbin/xcatd#L1553 Michael Robbert ---03/16/2021 05:11:18 PM---I

[xcat-user] Postscript remoteshell not working on RHEL8 compute node

I have an x86_64 management node running CentOS 7.9 and most of my cluster is x86_64 nodes running the same OS. I’m trying to test RHEL8 by installing it on one of our ppc64le nodes, but I’ve found that the remoteshell postscript is failing to install the correct SSH hostkeys on the node during

Re: [xcat-user] [External] Installing the slightly awkward software

We put websockify on our shared filesystem where all of our other scientific applications are stored and created and Lmod module that OnDemand can use to easily load the correct paths. Another option if you don't have a shared file system might be to use syncfiles to push the directory out to t

Re: [xcat-user] [External] Re: Sequential Discovery

I have a condo model cluster where I semi-regularly need to add nodes so I have a documented procedure. It is possible that other things in xCAT are already configured to allow these steps to work so it might be helpful to see the exact problems that you're seeing at your sites. One thing that I

Re: [xcat-user] Diskless postboot script unable to start gmond service

I'll note that I have seen similar problems with physical hosts and running a diskfull install. If I put a "systemctl start $servicename" in any of my postscripts they will hang during the postinstall process. I have taken to removing the start step and just enabling the service, then once I've

Re: [xcat-user] New XCAT installtion PXE boot issue.

I don't know if this is your issue, but I had similar symptoms recently while testing RHEL/CentOS 7 images on our cluster that has worked for years just fine with CentOS 6.x. I found that my problem had something to do with console redirection. For some reason systemd was hanging while trying t

Re: [xcat-user] Managing user's SSH configuration with xCAT

Kevin, We, and I believe most sites, utilize some form of shared storage (NFS, CIFS/Samba, or some parallel FS) for home directories which will remove the need to do any kind of user data synchronization. Just make sure the home directory is mounted in the same place on all machines in the clu

Re: [xcat-user] Lenovo xCAT releases...

That sounds like it would be a support nightmare. Unless I misunderstand how you’re going to do this it sounds like there will be 2 different releases of 2.10, and every version thereafter. If I’m running 2.10 from the ‘main’ release and you’re running 2.10 from ‘lenovo’ release we may see diffe

Re: [xcat-user] How to get genimage to know about repositories likeEPEL?

Steve, What we’ve usually done when we need these types of packages is to use yumdownloader on the management node. We figure out all the packages we’ll need, including dependencies, and with the proper repo configured on the management node call yum downloader for each package. Keep them all in

Re: [xcat-user] Customizing Stateless CentOS 7 image?

Steve, Did you follow the instructions found here: http://sourceforge.net/p/xcat/wiki/XCAT_iDataPlex_Cluster_Quick_Start/#deploying-stateless-nodes You mentioned create a custom pkglist, but you a

Re: [xcat-user] migrating to a new management node

Damir, I just recently did something like this. I used, as a template, the Wiki document for setting up an HA management node with shared data. http://sourceforge.net/p/xcat/wiki/Setup_HA_Mgmt_Node_With_Shared_Data/ Rathe

Re: [xcat-user] genimage doesn't produce initrd files for centos 6.4

David, I ran into this problem in the past. Here is the post with my resolution: https://www.mail-archive.com/xcat-user@lists.sourceforge.net/msg02076.html Make sure your /install directory isn't on a partition mounted with the nodev option. Mike On 1/21/14, 11:45 AM, David D Johnson wro

Re: [xcat-user] New nodes not deploying

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Re: [xcat-user] New nodes not deploying

erydata' on your xCAT MN and show the output to me so that I could figure out where the strange string came from? Thanks Best Regards -- Wang Xiaopeng (王晓朋) IBM China System Technology Laboratory Tel: 86-10-82453455 Email

Re: [xcat-user] New nodes not deploying

o the compute node. Thanks Best Regards -- Wang Xiaopeng (王晓朋) IBM China System Technology Laboratory Tel: 86-10-82453455 Email: w...@cn.ibm.com Address: 28,ZhongGuanCun Software Park,No.8 Dong Bei Wang West Road, Haidian District Beijing P.R.China 100193 Inactive hide details fo

Re: [xcat-user] New nodes not deploying

eans you are not running with xcatd. If the problem is running with xcatd, I would like to understand why. That would be a bug. Lissa K. Valletta 8-3/B10 Poughkeepsie, NY 12601 (tie 293) 433-3102 Inactive hide details for Michael Robbert ---08/16/2013 01:10:48 PM---Lissa, When I tried

Re: [xcat-user] New nodes not deploying

send a note to that same userid. Are you just using sqlite ( the default database)? Lissa K. Valletta 8-3/B10 Poughkeepsie, NY 12601 (tie 293) 433-3102 Inactive hide details for Michael Robbert ---08/09/2013 11:33:00 AM---Here is a diff comparing a working and non-working node. Michael Robbert --

[xcat-user] Problem in RH/CentOS 6 templates

I just ran into problem that took me far too long to debug. I'm hoping that it can be fixed upstream, but at the very least this will get it documented. I created a new install osimage based on the centos6.4-x86_64-install-storage one that is created after running copycds. By default it uses th

Re: [xcat-user] New nodes not deploying

ode as in the good node. Lissa K. Valletta 8-3/B10 Poughkeepsie, NY 12601 (tie 293) 433-3102 [Inactive hide details for Michael Robbert ---08/08/2013 03:30:23 PM---Didn't work. I recreated dhcp with those commands. I had]Michael Robbert ---08/08/2013 03:30:23 PM---Didn't work. I rec

Re: [xcat-user] New nodes not deploying

K. Valletta 8-3/B10 Poughkeepsie, NY 12601 (tie 293) 433-3102 Inactive hide details for Michael Robbert ---08/07/2013 06:30:05 PM---I've got a small test cluster with working stateless nodeMichael Robbert ---08/07/2013 06:30:05 PM---I've got a small test cluster with working stateless nod

[xcat-user] New nodes not deploying

I've got a small test cluster with working stateless nodes. Recently I tried to add 2 more nodes and I can't get them to deploy the same stateless image. For some reason the tftp configuration files are getting touched when I run nodeset, but not changed to point to the correct boot images. The

Re: [xcat-user] xCAT 2.8.2 Released

Regarding the MIC support in this latest release I want to first say Thank You! We got a couple of nodes with MIC cards a couple of weeks ago and I've been working on getting them build with our xCAT install. I was able to get them working, but this will hopefully make it much easier to maintai

Re: [xcat-user] Error: Missing Dependency: perl(IO::Uncompress::Gunzip) is needed by package 4:xCAT-server-2.8-snap201302181701.noarch (xcat-2-core)

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 It looks like perl(IO::Uncompress::Gunzip) is provided by the package: perl-IO-Compress-Base which is in the Epel repository. Mike Robbert Colorado School of Mines On 3/14/13 7:02 AM, Yaron Daniel wrote: > Hi > > I am trying to install xcat 2.8 on r

[xcat-user] Deploy bonded interface

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Is there a way to setup xCAT to deploy nodes with bonded Ethernet interfaces? We are trying to deploy some file system servers for our cluster and they have dual port 10Gig Nics that we would like bonded, but I don't see any way to configure that with

Re: [xcat-user] NFSROOT problem

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Re: [xcat-user] NFSROOT problem

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Re: [xcat-user] NFSROOT problem

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[xcat-user] NFSROOT problem

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I just switched from stateless using RAMdisk based boot to statelite using NFS root and ran into another problem. After following all the documentation to change our setup I finally run nodeset to create the new pxelinux.cfg file and it generates this:

Re: [xcat-user] bmcsetup failing

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Re: [xcat-user] bmcsetup failing

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Re: [xcat-user] bmcsetup failing

hen I next upgrade? Thanks, Mike On 1/7/13 4:24 PM, Michael Robbert wrote: > I am trying to run bmcsetup on some Penguin/Supermicro nodes. I > have run bmcsetup interactively on the nodes from within the > Genesis kernel and found that it is trying to user the id > (USERSLOT) 2 and appar

[xcat-user] bmcsetup failing

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I am trying to run bmcsetup on some Penguin/Supermicro nodes. I have run bmcsetup interactively on the nodes from within the Genesis kernel and found that it is trying to user the id (USERSLOT) 2 and apparently on this hardware that id isn't available.

Re: [xcat-user] genimage won't create a working image

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Re: [xcat-user] genimage won't create a working image

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Re: [xcat-user] genimage won't create a working image

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[xcat-user] genimage won't create a working image

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I'm running xCAT 2.7.6 on CentOS 6.3 and I'm trying to create a stateless image. When I run genimage it generates a bunch of warnings and some errors, but at the end it says that it was successful. After packing the image and attempting to boot a node