You need to install the initscripts RPM. el9 dropped sysinit for systemd
and xCAT is sysinit based.
On 7/10/25 23:53, Darren Whitaker wrote:
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:
o
Rocky Linux 9.4 – kernel 5.14.0-427.13.1.el9_4.x86_64
o
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 xcatdshows: (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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