Re: [xcat-user] Dell PowerEdge C6525 -- xcat diskless install hanging

2021-05-18 Thread david_johnson
There have been reports of this in various discussion groups, one suggestion is to plug in a mouse and move it around to help the kernel gather enough entropy for the random number generator. Another suggestion on the rhel support site (beyond wait for the fix in rhel8.3) is to add random.trust_

Re: [xcat-user] Diskless node downloads all postscripts but none of them are executed

2020-10-22 Thread david_johnson
The node is diskless so the postscripts must run on every boot. It looks like it got a lot of the files but the last directory it was working on was “repos”. Maybe there is a permission problem with a file that got dropped in that area in the last week or so. -- ddj Dave Johnson > On Oct 22

Re: [xcat-user] How to manage Power AC922 from Intel based xcat cluster ?

2019-10-21 Thread david_johnson
mgt=openbmc', > rsetboot => 'nodehm:mgt=openbmc', > rvitals => 'nodehm:mgt=openbmc', > rspconfig => 'nodehm:mgt=openbmc', > reventlog => 'nodehm:mgt=openbmc', > }; > } > > Mark Gurevich > Poughkeepsie Development Lab

Re: [xcat-user] How to manage Power AC922 from Intel based xcat cluster ?

2019-10-21 Thread david_johnson
ntel > based xcat cluster ? > > > > > > > I found openbmctool already installed on my system, but that indicates > connection refused. > I’m wondering if I need to enable remote management within petitboot? > On Oct 18, 2019, at 10:50 AM, david_john...@brow

Re: [xcat-user] DNS Setup

2019-10-18 Thread david_johnson
Is your resolv.conf set up with a domain directive or a search directive? New nodes should get their resolv.conf configured automatically but if you have only just now made the change on your management node it may not reconfigure the resolver for you. -- ddj Dave Johnson > On Oct 18, 2019,

Re: [xcat-user] How to manage Power AC922 from Intel based xcat cluster ?

2019-10-18 Thread david_johnson
evich > Poughkeepsie Development Lab > HPC Software Development - xCAT > > "If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would > it?" > --Albert Einstein > > > > > david_johnson---10/18/2019 10:11:50 AM---I’m having trouble finding out

[xcat-user] How to manage Power AC922 from Intel based xcat cluster ?

2019-10-18 Thread david_johnson
I’m having trouble finding out how to use either ipmitool or openbmc tools to manage power and console for a new IBM powerpc GPU node. Existing cluster is running the latest update of xcat. Can’t find openbmc executable or the openbmctool package download referred to in the ibm documentation.

Re: [xcat-user] provisioning CumulusLinux TOR switches with xCAT

2019-03-13 Thread david_johnson
I’ve been asked to use non-vendor-default passwords, where would I specify this? -- ddj Dave Johnson > On Mar 13, 2019, at 10:59 AM, Casandra H Qiu wrote: > > Hi, David: > > xCAT should able to support cumulus switch on 2.13.4, > are u looking for switch configure file in the `/var/opt/xcat

Re: [xcat-user] Staging a new management node but keeping it inactive?

2018-12-06 Thread david_johnson
We’ve kept parallel clusters on the same network for nearly a year now while transitioning to RH7 from CentOS 6. Initially copied the hosts and nodelist and MAC tables into the new xcat database. Carefully controlled use of makedhcp so that nodes moving to the new cluster were first added to n

Re: [xcat-user] statelite crashes with nfs server timeout

2018-07-16 Thread david_johnson
After we had some (let’s say self inflicted)?issues with dhcp, I added hardeths to the list of postscripts. Still would want to know why dhcp is failing. -- ddj Dave Johnson > On Jul 16, 2018, at 8:55 AM, Jeff Berry wrote: > > Hi all, > > the problem is linked to the dhcp lease renewal.

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

2018-07-03 Thread david_johnson
Yes, I recall someone having trouble that went away when they turned off hardware flow control on the serial console. If you have 115200nr or 38400nr change it to get rid of the “r”. -- ddj Dave Johnson > On Jul 3, 2018, at 5:17 PM, Michael Robbert wrote: > > I don't know if this is your

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

2018-07-03 Thread david_johnson
So a quick question is how long is never? I had a similar situation today and the setupntp script was taking a really long time but finally gave up. The problem for me was that chronyd was not configured on the management node to respond on any network interfaces. Chronyd has replaced ntpd on r

Re: [xcat-user] go-xcat accidentally run with /install mounted from production xcat master

2018-07-03 Thread david_johnson
In this case it was because the old cluster had a copy of the centos 7.3 iso which was called for in the directions, and I used nfs mount to copy it. Just forgot to unmount it afterwards. I maybe could have said -o ro or used scp, but nfs is the most convenient. I had originally hoped to manag

Re: [xcat-user] SciLinux 7.4 statelite problems

2018-06-20 Thread david_johnson
Do you have serial console on ttyS1 at 115200 baud with no flow control? The dell servers I have used use second serial port for console, rather than ttyS0 that most IBM Lenovo servers use. -- ddj Dave Johnson > On Jun 20, 2018, at 7:02 AM, Song BJ Yang wrote: > > hi, > > is it possible

Re: [xcat-user] conserver / rcons errors after upgrade

2017-06-23 Thread david_johnson
I used Kilian's workaround. It is working fine so far. -- ddj Dave Johnson > On Jun 23, 2017, at 1:00 AM, Er Tao Zhao wrote: > > Hi, Dave > > Based on Cheng Long's comments, Will you pls work around it with: > Download 2.13.4 xcat-dep tar ball from > https://xcat.org/files/xcat/xcat-dep/

Re: [xcat-user] NextScale nodes not booting from the disk

2017-05-12 Thread david_johnson
No, but Legacy Only might be an issue -- ddj Dave Johnson > On May 12, 2017, at 10:36 AM, Damir Krstic wrote: > > Thanks for the reply - I don't think our issue is with PXE...node boots fine > from the PXE and it gets installed...it's just after the installation when > it's supposed to boot

Re: [xcat-user] NextScale nodes not booting from the disk

2017-05-12 Thread david_johnson
Could you share the IMM and Boot sections from asu show on one of your troublesome nodes? -- ddj Dave Johnson > On May 12, 2017, at 6:45 AM, Damir Krstic wrote: > > We are switching our image from stateless to stateful in a month (going from > RH6 to RH7). Old IBM dx360 nodes are booting fi

Re: [xcat-user] Problems with x desktop after diskless image build /boot

2016-03-02 Thread david_johnson
I tried removing all exclude lines, install was bigger, but the problem did not go away. Also similar issue with constant messages from pulseaudio failed to load module and dbus daemon launch helper showing up in /var/log/messages. I fear some files or directories are being created with group r

[xcat-user] Problems with x desktop after diskless image build / boot

2016-02-29 Thread david_johnson
We are seeing issues with a system booted diskless with the basic-desktop, gnome-desktop and desktop-platform groups added to the pkglist. The problem does not occur if I add these package groups after the system is booted. I believe it is due to not having a populated /etc/group file during the