What Mark says. And you have to do this before trying to install xCAT because it will break your /etc/init.d symlink.
go-xcat will install initscripts for you. Mit freundlichen Grüßen / Kind regards Markus Hilger HPC Engineer MEGWARE Computer Vertrieb und Service GmbH Tel: +49 3722 528-47 Nordstraße 19 markus.hil...@megware.com<mailto:markus.hil...@megware.com> 09247 Chemnitz-Röhrsdorf, Germany www.megware.com<http://www.megware.com/> Geschäftsführer: André Singer, Dr. Axel Auweter Amtsgericht: Chemnitz HRB 584 ________________________________ Von: Mark Frenette <mark2.frene...@gmail.com> Gesendet: Freitag, 11. Juli 2025 14:44 An: xcat-user@lists.sourceforge.net <xcat-user@lists.sourceforge.net> Betreff: Re: [xcat-user] Issue starting xCAT daemon on Rocky Linux 9 and Oracle Linux 9 – “don’t know how to start on this platform” 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: * 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. _______________________________________________ xCAT-user mailing list xCAT-user@lists.sourceforge.net<mailto:xCAT-user@lists.sourceforge.net> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/xcat-user -- Mark Frenette mark2.frene...@gmail.com<mailto:mark2.frene...@gmail.com> 603-490-6823
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