Hi everyone,
thanks for the pointers. I decided to go back to the very beginning and did a
clean reinstall of xcat:
Version 2.14.1 (git commit 70d6e7f93cc9714a127c22df2e7ca53d4996a34c, built Fri
Jun 1 03:00:53 EDT 2018)
then I walked through the documentation -
https://xcat-docs.readthedocs.io/en/stable - and it works slighly better now.
I’m no longer getting udev errors, but I’m still getting journald errors:
code killed, status 6/ABRT
on restart ‘/run/log/journal/<string>/system.journal corrupted or uncleanly
shut down.
which looks like it might be a space/memory issue?
In any case, even just after boot, I have the same problem where I can’t ssh to
the node or rcons, or even get a console prompt on the drac card (it’s a dell
C6420). It’s pingable at the correct ip address.
As per the email below, I checked the image for pkglist, exlist, and postinall:
Object name: SL7.4-statelite-v1
exlist=/opt/xcat/share/xcat/netboot/rh/compute.rhels7.x86_64.exlist
imagetype=linux
osarch=x86_64
osdistroname=SL7.4-x86_64
osname=Linux
osvers=SL7.4
otherpkgdir=/install/post/otherpkgs/SL7.4/x86_64
permission=755
pkgdir=/install/SL7.4/x86_64
pkglist=/opt/xcat/share/xcat/netboot/rh/compute.rhels7.x86_64.pkglist
postinstall=/opt/xcat/share/xcat/netboot/rh/compute.rhels7.x86_64.postinstall
profile=compute
provmethod=statelite
rootimgdir=/install/netboot/SL7.4/x86_64/compute
I had a brief moment where I thought it might be an selinux problem, but in the
rootimg selinux is disabled in /etc/selinux/config ...
the litefile is standard, but I’m thinking that I might change /var and /run to
persistent to see if I can some extra insight into what’s happening on the node.
#image,file,options,comments,disable
"ALL","/etc/adjtime","tmpfs",,
"ALL","/etc/securetty","tmpfs",,
"ALL","/etc/lvm/","tmpfs",,
"ALL","/etc/ntp.conf","tmpfs",,
"ALL","/etc/rsyslog.conf","tmpfs",,
"ALL","/etc/rsyslog.conf.XCATORIG","tmpfs",,
"ALL","/etc/udev/","tmpfs",,
"ALL","/etc/ntp.conf.predhclient","tmpfs",,
"ALL","/etc/resolv.conf","tmpfs",,
"ALL","/etc/yp.conf","tmpfs",,
"ALL","/etc/resolv.conf.predhclient","tmpfs",,
"ALL","/etc/sysconfig/","tmpfs",,
"ALL","/etc/ssh/","tmpfs",,
"ALL","/etc/inittab","tmpfs",,
"ALL","/tmp/","tmpfs",,
"ALL","/var/","tmpfs",,
"ALL","/opt/xcat/","tmpfs",,
"ALL","/xcatpost/","tmpfs",,
"ALL","/etc/systemd/system/multi-user.target.wants/","tmpfs",,
"ALL","/root/.ssh/","tmpfs",,
"ALL","/etc/rc3.d/","tmpfs",,
"ALL","/etc/rc2.d/","tmpfs",,
"ALL","/etc/rc4.d/","tmpfs",,
"ALL","/etc/rc5.d/","tmpfs",,
I’m booting with rd.debug and rd.break=cleanup, but I don’t get a shell – I
think because the root image *is* mounting.
As I said, thanks for the thoughts, and I just wanted to make sure that people
know that I appreciate the input,
Best,
Jeff Berry
From: Yuan Y Bai [mailto:by...@cn.ibm.com]
Sent: 12 June 2018 10:01
To: xcat-user@lists.sourceforge.net
Cc: xcat-user@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [xcat-user] SciLinux 7.4 statelite problems
Hi Jeff,
Could you check your osimage definition about exlist, pkglist and postinstall?
We do not formal ship compute.SL7.pkglist, we user the same files for rhels7.
so could you try to use the rhels7 related files for your osimage?
Here I give you an example for osimage, you can find the right arch files under
/opt/xcat/share/xcat/netboot/rh/:
]# lsdef -t osimage rhels7.4-x86_64-statelite-compute -i
exlist,pkglist,postinstall
Object name: rhels7.4-x86_64-statelite-compute
exlist=/opt/xcat/share/xcat/netboot/rh/compute.rhels7.x86_64.exlist
pkglist=/opt/xcat/share/xcat/netboot/rh/compute.rhels7.x86_64.pkglist
postinstall=/opt/xcat/share/xcat/netboot/rh/compute.rhels7.x86_64.postinstall
"Failing to install mlx_en", I got the same message when there is no mlx in my
system.
Best Regards
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CSTL HPC System Management Development
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From: Jeff Berry
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Subject: [xcat-user] SciLinux 7.4 statelite problems
Date: Tue, Jun 12, 2018 4:25 PM
Good morning all,
I’m still wrestling with a SciLinux 7.4 statelite deployment with xcat 2.13.11.
The dracut hooks don’t seem to be working properly, which is both making it
difficult to debug and also probably symptomatic of a larger problem. Running
genimage, a few things have caught my eye.
The package list is looking for busybox-anaconda, which doesn’t seem to exist
for SciLinux 7. A bit of poking seems to suggest that it is deprecated, but
it’s not clear to me what a suitable replacement might be. Is there a
preferred solution/workaround?
The dracut install also is throwing a couple of errors. Failing to install
mlx_en is, I think, benign. I am also getting this error: “dracut-install:
ERROR: installing '/etc/udev/udev.conf'” which seems like it might be more
significant, especially in light of my dracut problems. However, I don’t know
what might be causing this problem, nor how to fix it.
Any insight will be latched upon to with unseemly haste,
Jeff Berry
MRC-CBSU, Cambridge
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