Hi everyone, Thank you so much for the help! The tips worked for me, especially installing *initscripts* before xCAT.
I decided to redo the xCAT installation, this time installing *initscripts* beforehand, and it worked without any errors. Many thanks to *Chris James*, *Mark Frenette*, and *Markus Hilger*. Darren. On Fri, Jul 11, 2025 at 12:52 PM Markus Hilger <markus.hil...@megware.com> wrote: > 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 > > > > 09247 Chemnitz-Röhrsdorf, Germany > > 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 > listxCAT-user@lists.sourceforge.nethttps://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/xcat-user > > > -- > Mark frenettemark2.frene...@gmail.com > 603-490-6823 > > _______________________________________________ > xCAT-user mailing list > xCAT-user@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/xcat-user >
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