It would be good if you could update to the currently supported level of xCAT 2.7 release ( 2.7.7).
Lissa K. Valletta 8-3/B10 Poughkeepsie, NY 12601 (tie 293) 433-3102 From: Damir Krstic <[email protected]> To: xCAT Users Mailing list <[email protected]>, Date: 11/27/2013 09:24 AM Subject: Re: [xcat-user] problem installing new node version is Version 2.7.3 (svn r13117, built Mon Jun 18 05:12:28 EDT 2012) trying it now without installnic and primarynic specified. On Tue, Nov 26, 2013 at 4:04 PM, Ling Gao <[email protected]> wrote: What version of xCAT are you using? (xdsh -V) Can you change netboot=xnba and change installnic and primarynic to empty? Then run nodeset again and redeploy the node. Ling From: Damir Krstic <[email protected]> To: xCAT Users Mailing list <[email protected]>, Date: 11/26/2013 04:37 PM Subject: Re: [xcat-user] problem installing new node Verified the static/dynamic overlapping and that does not seem to be a problem. Also double checked the ip/mac and they are not duplicated/overlapping. Here is the lsdef of one of the problematic nodes: bject name: ttlogin01 arch=x86_64 bmc=ttlogin01-bmc bmcpassword=PASSW0RD bmcusername=USERID currchain=boot currstate=install rhels6.2-x86_64-ttlogin6 groups=ttlogin6,ttlogin6-profile,ipmiB,x3650m2,ttlogin,all initrd=xcat/rhels6.2/x86_64/initrd.img installnic=eth0 ip=172.20.7.1 kcmdline=nofb utf8 ks=http://172.20.0.1/install/autoinst/ttlogin01 ksdevice=eth0 console=tty0 console=ttyS0,115200 noipv6 kernel=xcat/rhels6.2/x86_64/vmlinuz mac=40:f2:e9:0d:e2:64 mgt=ipmi mtm=7914AC1 netboot=pxe nfsserver=172.20.0.1 os=rhels6.2 postbootscripts=otherpkgs,setupntp postscripts=syslog,remoteshell,syncfiles primarynic=eth0 profile=ttlogin6 provmethod=install serial=KQ0GV1M serialport=0 serialspeed=115200 status=installing statustime=11-26-2013 12:18:42 supportedarchs=x86,x86_64 switch=bnt101 switchinterface=eth0 switchport=29 switchvlan=1 tftpserver=172.20.0.1 xcatmaster=172.20.0.1 On Tue, Nov 26, 2013 at 3:10 PM, Russell Jones <[email protected] > wrote: Verify you do not have dynamic and static networks overlapping for that network definition. Also verify you have configured the correct MAC address for that node in xcat and do not have overlapping MACs/IPs. What does an lsdef for one of the problem nodes look like? On 11/26/2013 2:54 PM, Damir Krstic wrote: We have couple of new x3550m4 that are not installing. Basically after BMC has been programmed and nodes have been set to install, and for some reason, pxe boot process never goes beyond serving pxelinux.0 (please see the log file below: ov 26 14:43:12 mgt dhcpd: DHCPACK on 172.20.7.1 to 40:f2:e9:0d:e2:64 via bond0 Nov 26 14:43:12 mgt atftpd[10629]: Serving pxelinux.0 to 172.20.7.1:1929 Nov 26 14:43:12 mgt atftpd[10629]: tsize option -> 13148 Nov 26 14:43:12 mgt atftpd[10629]: blksize option -> 1468 Nov 26 14:43:12 mgt atftpd[10629]: Server thread exiting Nov 26 14:43:12 mgt atftpd[10629]: Serving pxelinux.0 to 172.20.7.1:1930 Nov 26 14:43:12 mgt atftpd[10629]: blksize option -> 1468 Nov 26 14:43:12 mgt atftpd[10629]: Server thread exiting Nov 26 14:43:13 mgt atftpd[10629]: Serving pxelinux.0 to 172.20.7.1:1931 Nov 26 14:43:13 mgt atftpd[10629]: blksize option -> 1468 Nov 26 14:43:13 mgt atftpd[10629]: Server thread exiting Here is the tcpdump from the management node when this happens: 14:33:20.626124 IP (tos 0x0, ttl 64, id 50528, offset 0, flags [none], proto: UDP (17), length: 68) <new-node>.informatik-lm > <mgt node>: [udp sum ok] 40 RRQ "pxelinux.0" octet tsize 0 blksize 1468 in the /tftpboot/pxelinux.cfg directory we have a directory that corresponds to the hex of the ip for the new node: [root@mgt pxelinux.cfg]# ls -lrt AC140701 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 9 Nov 26 09:28 AC140702 -> ttlogin01 here is the content of the file: root@mgt pxelinux.cfg]# cat ttlogin01 #install rhels6.2-x86_64-ttlogin6 DEFAULT xCAT LABEL xCAT KERNEL xcat/rhels6.2/x86_64/vmlinuz APPEND initrd=xcat/rhels6.2/x86_64/initrd.img repo= http://172.20.0.1/install/rhels6.2/x86_64/ ks= http://172.20.0.1/install/autoinst/ttlogin01 ksdevice=eth0 cmdline console=tty0 console=ttyS0,115200 IPAPPEND 2 For some reason, tftpboot process never proceeds to the pxelinux.cfg directory after pxelinux.0 is served. Stateless nodes on this cluster boot fine so I think our tftpboot environment is OK. It's just these two nodes that have to be installed that are problematic. Any help is appreciated. Thanks, Damir. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Rapidly troubleshoot problems before they affect your business. Most IT organizations don't have a clear picture of how application performance affects their revenue. With AppDynamics, you get 100% visibility into your Java,.NET, & PHP application. Start your 15-day FREE TRIAL of AppDynamics Pro! http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=84349351&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ xCAT-user mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/xcat-user ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Rapidly troubleshoot problems before they affect your business. 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