I look so forward to distros being new enough to support SPCR (4.16 kernel,
iirc, is the first one that did it for x86_64, so that or backporting it).
Then the firmware can tell the kernel how to use the serial port instead of
having to pass console= all the time.
From: Jeff Berry <jeff.be...@mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk>
Sent: Thursday, June 21, 2018 9:14 AM
To: xCAT Users Mailing list <xcat-user@lists.sourceforge.net>
Subject: [External] Re: [xcat-user] SciLinux 7.4 statelite problems
Yes - console=tty0 console=ttyS1,115200 MNTOPTS=
I rebuilt the xcat server with CentOS 7.5 (and built images with that), and now
the drac console is working properly. In any case, to a first approximation, I
can deploy the cluster.
Thanks again,
Jeff Berry
From: david_john...@brown.edu<mailto:david_john...@brown.edu>
[mailto:david_john...@brown.edu]
Sent: 20 June 2018 15:58
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Subject: Re: [xcat-user] SciLinux 7.4 statelite problems
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
<yang...@cn.ibm.com<mailto:yang...@cn.ibm.com>> wrote:
hi,
is it possible to provide the screen log of the running `genimage` and system
boot up on console after `rinstall/rpower`?
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From: Jeff Berry
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Subject: Re: [xcat-user] SciLinux 7.4 statelite problems
Date: Wed, Jun 20, 2018 6:25 PM
Hi,
the message is on boot and I never get to a console prompt. I’m starting to
wonder if there may be some issue with dracut, possibly on the specific
hardware I’m using. I’m using Dell C6420s, and try as I might I can’t get the
install to drop to a dracut shell.
Regards,
Jeff
From: Song BJ Yang [mailto:yang...@cn.ibm.com]
Sent: 20 June 2018 08:19
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Subject: Re: [xcat-user] SciLinux 7.4 statelite problems
hi Jeff Berry,
when did you see the error message? during `genimage`? or during node boot up?
"
code killed, status 6/ABRT
on restart ‘/run/log/journal/<string>/system.journal corrupted or uncleanly
shut down.
"
can you see the login prompt on the console?
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From: Jeff Berry
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Subject: Re: [xcat-user] SciLinux 7.4 statelite problems
Date: Tue, Jun 19, 2018 4:42 PM
Hi Yuan,
I made the change to litefile as you suggested.
I was already running break.cleanup, but I tried pre-pivot as well.
In both cases, the node boots, is pingable, but the console doesn’t get to
login and ssh gives a connection refused.
Best,
Jeff
From: Yuan Y Bai [mailto:by...@cn.ibm.com]
Sent: 19 June 2018 08:37
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Subject: Re: [xcat-user] SciLinux 7.4 statelite problems
Hi Jeff,
Could you try rd.break=cleanup as following, or you can try to set break point
addkcmdline=rd.break=pre-pivot.
chdef node-i01 addkcmdline=rd.break=cleanup
rinstall node-i01 osimage
rcons node-i01
Have you try to add "/etc/systemd/" in litefile? Now we just add
"/etc/systemd/system/multi-user.target.wants/".
Best Regards
--------------------------------------------------
Yuan Bai (白媛)
CSTL HPC System Management Development
Tel:86-10-82451401
E-mail: by...@cn.ibm.com<mailto:by...@cn.ibm.com>
Address: IBM ZGC Campus. Ring Building 28,
ZhongGuanCun Software Park,No.8 Dong Bei Wang West Road, Haidian District,
Beijing P.R.China 100193
IBM环宇大厦
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From: Jeff Berry
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Subject: Re: [xcat-user] SciLinux 7.4 statelite problems
Date: Mon, Jun 18, 2018 5:36 PM
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<mailto:xcat-user@lists.sourceforge.net>
Cc: xcat-user@lists.sourceforge.net<mailto: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
--------------------------------------------------
Yuan Bai (白媛)
CSTL HPC System Management Development
Tel:86-10-82451401
E-mail: by...@cn.ibm.com<mailto:by...@cn.ibm.com>
Address: IBM ZGC Campus. Ring Building 28,
ZhongGuanCun Software Park,No.8 Dong Bei Wang West Road, Haidian District,
Beijing P.R.China 100193
IBM环宇大厦
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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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