HI Darren, This is what I did to get it working under rocky9.5.
Download the go-xcat tool using wget: wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/xcat2/xcat-core/master/xCAT-server/share/xcat/tools/go-xcat -O - >/tmp/go-xcat chmod +x /tmp/go-xcat Run the go-xcat tool: /tmp/go-xcat -x install NOTE: This will fail with the certificate issue but carry on with the below. NOTE2: I had previous suggested running the command with the devel option but it works with the standard install anyway. cp /opt/xcat/share/xcat/ca/openssl.cnf.tmpl /opt/xcat/share/xcat/ca/openssl.cnf.tmpl.orig vim /opt/xcat/share/xcat/ca/openssl.cnf.tmpl Comment out anything with "authorityKeyIdentifier" i.e.: fgrep authorityKeyIdentifier /opt/xcat/share/xcat/ca/openssl.cnf.tmpl #authorityKeyIdentifier=keyid,issuer #authorityKeyIdentifier=keyid,issuer #authorityKeyIdentifier=keyid:always,issuer # Only issuerAltName and authorityKeyIdentifier make any sense in a CRL. #authorityKeyIdentifier=keyid:always #authorityKeyIdentifier=keyid,issuer cp /opt/xcat/share/xcat/scripts/setup-dockerhost-cert.sh /opt/xcat/share/xcat/scripts/setup-dockerhost-cert.sh.orig vim /opt/xcat/share/xcat/scripts/setup-dockerhost-cert.sh Change this line: openssl req -config ca/openssl.cnf -new -key ca/dockerhost-key.pem -out cert/dockerhost-req.pem -extensions server -subj "/CN=$CNA" to: openssl req -config ca/openssl.cnf -new -key ca/dockerhost-key.pem -out cert/dockerhost-req.pem -subj "/CN=$CNA" Source the profile to add xCAT Commands to your path: source /etc/profile.d/xcat.sh Reinitialise the xcat installation: xcatconfig -i -c -s Check the xCAT version: lsxcatd -a Version 2.17.0 (git commit f7e389a0c03fb18f8f1236cb4ad3fe8605765c51, built Mon Jan 13 01:15:40 CET 2025) This is a Management Node dbengine=SQLite Closed #7481<https://github.com/xcat2/xcat-core/issues/7481> as completed via #7482<https://github.com/xcat2/xcat-core/pull/7482>. Cheers Chris ________________________________ From: Darren Whitaker <darren.whitaker....@gmail.com> Sent: Friday, July 11, 2025 04:53 To: xcat-user@lists.sourceforge.net <xcat-user@lists.sourceforge.net> Subject: [xcat-user] Issue starting xCAT daemon on Rocky Linux 9 and Oracle Linux 9 – “don’t know how to start on this platform” Hello xCAT everyone, I’ve been testing xCAT 2.17.0 on Rocky Linux 9.4 and Oracle Linux 9, but I’m running into issues getting the xcatd daemon to start. * Distributions: * Rocky Linux 9.4 – kernel 5.14.0-427.13.1.el9_4.x86_64 * Oracle Linux 9 – kernel 5.15.0-205.149.5.1.el9uek.x86_64 * xCAT version: 2.17.0-snap202411131534 * Installed using the official RPM packages Issue: After installation, when attempting to start xcatd, the service fails with the following error: (Error, don't know how to start on this platform) Running systemctl status xcatd shows: (xcatd.service: Control process exited, code=exited, status=1/FAILURE xcatd.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'.) And lsxcatd -a returns: (Unable to open socket connection to xcatd daemon on localhost:3001. Verify that the xcatd daemon is running and that your SSL setup is correct. Connection failure: IO::Socket::INET: connect: Connection refused) What I’ve tried so far: * The installation completed successfully and SSL certificates were generated without errors. * SELinux is disabled and the firewall is not blocking any ports. * I temporarily modified /etc/os-release to simulate ID=rhel and ID_LIKE="rhel fedora", but the error persisted. * I also tried creating a wrapper for the uname command to force it to return RedHat, but this didn’t help either. * Looking into the Perl code of xCAT, it seems that Rocky Linux and Oracle Linux are probably not recognized as supported platforms. I can provide more details about the environment or share complete logs if needed. I appreciate everyone’s help. Thanks in advance for your help! Darren.
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