Hi Imam, Followup to the latest questions: 1. You mentioned you're running on Proxmox. Do you have any other DHCP server in this network that will give 172.16.10.0/24 addresses? 2. Please also check the MAC Address of the compute node and what shows up on `lsdef` for that node. 3. Check on /var/log/messages and /var/lib/kea/kea-leases4.csv for the MAC address and the lease?
Regards, On 31 Jul 2026, at 12:05, Vinícius Ferrão via xCAT-user <[email protected]> wrote: Hello Imam, The problem as I could see is that the VM has changed the IP address so xcatd will not be able to manage the system. Now... why it changed the IP address? To find out, how did you tried to provision the node? 1. Using Genesis 2. Static mkdef setting Can you send the output of the commands: 1. lsdef -t node <name-of-the-node>? 2. tabdump networks Thanks, On 31 Jul 2026, at 01:05, Vinícius Ferrão via xCAT-user <[email protected]> wrote: Should not have been an issue, but we seen issues with some para virtualized NICs. Let me tackle the issue. I will try to replicate it here. Sent from my iPhone On 31 Jul 2026, at 01:01, Imam Toufique <[email protected]> wrote: HI there, Yes, the headnode is a physical server running Rocky 10.2 . Compute node is a VM running in proxmox , using QEMU . Does this have anything to do with the VM ? I mean... I never had to any issues with other versions of xcat. --imam On Thu, Jul 30, 2026 at 8:52 PM Vinícius Ferrão via xCAT-user <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: Hi Imam, If I understood correctly you are with this setup: Headnode: Rocky 10.2 Compute Node: Rocky 9.7 You mentioned the first VM. Is it a virtualized xCAT install? If yes which hypervisor are you using? KVM with QEMU? Regards, On 31 Jul 2026, at 00:22, Imam Toufique <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: I need some help with new xcat build , as I did not have the following problems before... I installed the 2.18.0 in a inewly installed Rocky 10.2 system , set it up and this is what I got for my first VM build . The build was for Rocky Linux 9.7 . Here are the problems I am having: A. in /etc/httpd/conf.d/xcat.conf file, /install Directive is missing "Indexes" . See below. Without that , the VM would boot up , and then stall. <Directory "/install"> Options FollowSymLinks Includes MultiViews AllowOverride None Require all granted </Directory> B. After ( hopefully ) fix of #A ( above ), build starts and get into postinstall. But, it does not finish , I can't tell what might be wrong here, as I never had to look for problems here in the past 8 years of running xcat. Here is the /var/log/xcat/xcat.log from the VM ( node ) that I built: [root@test-1 ~]# cat /var/log/xcat/xcat.log Running Kickstart Post-installation script... Thu Jul 30 19:56:18 PDT 2026 [info]: xcat.deployment: Executing post.xcat to prepare for firstbooting ... Thu Jul 30 19:56:27 PDT 2026 [info]: xcat.deployment: trying to download postscripts from 172.16.10.4... Thu Jul 30 19:56:28 PDT 2026 [info]: xcat.deployment: postscripts downloaded successfully Thu Jul 30 19:56:28 PDT 2026 [info]: xcat.deployment: trying to get mypostscript from 172.16.10.4... Thu Jul 30 19:58:35 PDT 2026 [info]: xcat.deployment: finished firstboot preparation, sending request to 172.16.10.4:3002<http://172.16.10.4:3002/> for changing status... updateflag.awk: Retrying flag update updateflag.awk: Retrying flag update updateflag.awk: Retrying flag update updateflag.awk: Retrying flag update updateflag.awk: Retrying flag update updateflag.awk: Retrying flag update updateflag.awk: Retrying flag update updateflag.awk: Retrying flag update updateflag.awk: Retrying flag update updateflag.awk: Retrying flag update updateflag.awk: Retrying flag update updateflag.awk: flag update failed updateflag.awk: Retrying flag update updateflag.awk: Retrying flag update updateflag.awk: Retrying flag update updateflag.awk: Retrying flag update updateflag.awk: Retrying flag update updateflag.awk: Retrying flag update updateflag.awk: Retrying flag update updateflag.awk: Retrying flag update updateflag.awk: Retrying flag update updateflag.awk: Retrying flag update updateflag.awk: Retrying flag update updateflag.awk: flag update failed Thu Jul 30 08:02:42 PM PDT 2026 [info]: xcat.deployment: Running /xcatpost/mypostscript.post<http://mypostscript.post/> updateflag.awk: Retrying flag update updateflag.awk: Retrying flag update updateflag.awk: Retrying flag update updateflag.awk: Retrying flag update updateflag.awk: Retrying flag update updateflag.awk: Retrying flag update updateflag.awk: Retrying flag update updateflag.awk: Retrying flag update updateflag.awk: Retrying flag update updateflag.awk: Retrying flag update updateflag.awk: Retrying flag update updateflag.awk: flag update failed Thu Jul 30 08:04:32 PM PDT 2026 [info]: xcat.deployment: /xcatpost/mypostscript.post<http://mypostscript.post/> return Thu Jul 30 08:04:32 PM PDT 2026 [info]: xcat.deployment: =============deployment ending==================== Looks like it downloads all the postscripts and my postscripts are also there in /xcatpost directory. Here is how I added my postscripts ( just like I had done before in my production cluster ) . root@poc2-mgmt:/etc/httpd/conf.d# lsdef -t group rocky97 Object name: rocky97 addkcmdline=R::consoleblank=0 R::intel_idle.max_cstate=0 R::cgroup_enable=memory R::swapaccount=1 grouptype=static members=test-1 netboot=xnba os=rocky9.7 postscripts=setupntp,rcic-postscripts/postscript,confignetwork -s provmethod=rocky9.7-x86_64-install-compute My files are there: root@poc2-mgmt:/etc/httpd/conf.d# ls /install/postscripts/rcic-postscripts/postscript /install/postscripts/rcic-postscripts/postscript C. In my production version of xcat ( 2.17.0-snap202411131534.noarch ) when node started to install , I was able to ping the node . On this version , the install starts , but I can't ping the node. The IP that is assigned to it , it does not use the IP , it uses the DHCP address and keeps using the DHCP address even after the node boots ( broken in the postscripts ). So, exameple: root@poc2-mgmt:/etc/httpd/conf.d# nslookup test-1 Server: 127.0.0.1 Address: 127.0.0.1#53 Name: test-1.local Address: 172.16.10.6 root@poc2-mgmt:/etc/httpd/conf.d# root@poc2-mgmt:/etc/httpd/conf.d# root@poc2-mgmt:/etc/httpd/conf.d# ping -c 3 test-1 PING test-1 (172.16.10.6) 56(84) bytes of data. From poc2-mgmt (172.16.10.4) icmp_seq=1 Destination Host Unreachable From poc2-mgmt (172.16.10.4) icmp_seq=2 Destination Host Unreachable From poc2-mgmt (172.16.10.4) icmp_seq=3 Destination Host Unreachable --- test-1 ping statistics --- 3 packets transmitted, 0 received, +3 errors, 100% packet loss, time 2030ms pipe 3 While looking at the node , it has the DHCP address: 2: ens18: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1500 qdisc fq_codel state UP group default qlen 1000 link/ether bc:24:11:1f:bf:8c brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff altname enp0s18 inet 172.16.10.241/<http://172.16.10.241/>24 brd 172.16.10.255 scope global dynamic noprefixroute ens18 valid_lft 35688sec preferred_lft 35688sec inet6 fe80::be24:11ff:fe1f:bf8c/64 scope link noprefixroute valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever [root@test-1 ~]# the node does not have any ifcfg-xcat-interfaceX file in /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ directory. I must be missing something , not sure what I am missing. If someone from the current xCAT team can help shed some light into this , that would be great. thanks. _______________________________________________ xCAT-user mailing list [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/xcat-user _______________________________________________ xCAT-user mailing list [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/xcat-user -- Regards, Imam Toufique 213-700-5485 _______________________________________________ xCAT-user mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/xcat-user _______________________________________________ xCAT-user mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/xcat-user
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