If getting errors on genimage then we need to stop right there and find out what is going on.
Could we take one known problem out of the picture. That is upgrading from a release level < 2.7.6 to a later release level xcatd does not stop cleanly. Could you service xcatd stop ps -ef | grep xcatd kill -9 any xcatd processes service xcatd start Then could you try the genimage again and see if you get those same errors. Lissa K. Valletta 8-3/B10 Poughkeepsie, NY 12601 (tie 293) 433-3102 From: Christian Caruthers/Richmond/IBM@IBMUS To: "xCAT Users Mailing list" <xcat-user@lists.sourceforge.net>, Date: 03/20/2014 08:54 AM Subject: [xcat-user] Strange xCAT stateless image behavior Trying to set up the default compute stateless template in v2.8.3 on rhel 6.4. This system was first upgraded from xCAT 2.7.3 to 2.8.3 w/ latest deps. We took the default compute.pkglist and compute.exlist from $XCATROOT/share/xcat/netboot/rh. When genimage is building the initrd, I see the following: Try to load drivers: pps_core mlx4_core mdio libcrc32c ptp dca virtio_ring virtio mlx4_en tg3 bnx2 bnx2x e1000 e1000e igb mlx_en virtio_net be2net ext3 ext4 to initrd. W: Cannot load dracut module "xcat", dependencies failed. W: Dracut module "xcat" cannot be found. W: Dracut module "nfs" cannot be found. W: Dracut module "network" cannot be found. the initial ramdisk for statelite is generated successfully. Try to load drivers: pps_core mlx4_core mdio libcrc32c ptp dca virtio_ring virtio mlx4_en tg3 bnx2 bnx2x e1000 e1000e igb mlx_en virtio_net be2net ext3 ext4 to initrd. W: Cannot load dracut module "xcat", dependencies failed. W: Dracut module "xcat" cannot be found. W: Dracut module "nfs" cannot be found. W: Dracut module "network" cannot be found. the initial ramdisk for stateless is generated successfully. After running packimage, we boot the system and see the following in the console: Initalizing network drop monitor service Freeing unused kernel memory: 1264k freed Write protecting the kernel read-only data: 10240k Freeing unused kernel memory: 904k freed Freeing unused kernel memory: 1676k freed dracut: FATAL: No or empty root= argument dracut: Refusing to continue dracut Warning: Signal caught! /lib/dracut-lib.sh: line 83: /emergency/01-die.sh: No such file or directory Kernel panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill init! Pid: 1, comm: init Not tainted 2.6.32-358.el6.x86_64 #1 Call Trace: ? panic+0xa7/0x16f ? do_exit+0x862/0x870 ? do_group_exit+0x58/0xd0 ? sys_exit_group+0x17/0x20 ? system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b The management node has a patched kernel, and it appears the stateless image is running the stock rhel 6.4 kernel. Could this be the problem, or am I missing something: [root@mgt01 modules]# ls /install/netboot/rhels6.4/x86_64/compute/rootimg/lib/modules 2.6.32-358.el6.x86_64 [root@mgt01 modules]# uname -a Linux mgt01.cluster.net 2.6.32-358.18.1.el6.x86_64 #1 SMP Fri Aug 2 17:04:38 EDT 2013 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux [root@mgt01 modules]# Regards, Christian Caruthers Senior Consultant - System x Linux HPC Mobile: 757-289-9872 Find me on LinkedIn ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Learn Graph Databases - Download FREE O'Reilly Book "Graph Databases" is the definitive new guide to graph databases and their applications. Written by three acclaimed leaders in the field, this first edition is now available. Download your free book today! http://p.sf.net/sfu/13534_NeoTech _______________________________________________ xCAT-user mailing list xCAT-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/xcat-user
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