| 00:02 wraith | Not sure it is a mounting issue. it is complaining about error inserting unionfs |
| 00:12 h01ger | ah |
| 00:12 h01ger | then its a unionfs issue :) |
| 00:12 h01ger | which kernel are you using? |
| 00:13 h01ger | you need the unionfs modules package for that kernel |
| 00:13 h01ger | and i need to go bed now, it's 2:13 am here... |
| 00:13 h01ger | i think unionsfs modules are provided by the linux-modules-extra(-$version) packaga |
| 00:14 h01ger | good luck :) +please report back. either here or on the list |
| 00:16 wraith | 2.6.24-1 |
| 00:16 wraith | I'll check into that thanks. |
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| 09:37 h01ger | MT, hi! have you checked your code with perl 5.10 already? |
| 09:40 MT | nope |
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| 09:45 h01ger | .oO( na dann gute nacht :) |
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| 10:32 ajf | Hi |
| 10:33 ajf | I've been trying to use the new setup-storage script from svn |
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| 10:35 ajf | The installation seems to go alright, but the installed system doesn't boot |
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| 10:41 ajf | Is it me, or is the script broken at the moment? |
| 10:41 h01ger | ajf, you will need to provide more information, like error message or logfiles, our crystal ball is in repair :) |
| 10:41 h01ger | usually setup-storage works.. |
| 10:41 h01ger | ajf, paste.debian.net is a good place to post logfiles |
| 10:41 h01ger | or the mailinglist |
| 10:42 ajf | fair point :) The boot fails with 'waiting for root filesystem' |
| 10:43 h01ger | which kernel version? |
| 10:43 h01ger | which distro? |
| 10:43 h01ger | lvm? |
| 10:43 h01ger | scsi, pata, sata? |
| 10:43 h01ger | as said, the crystal ball is broken.. |
| 10:44 ajf | Sorry, I was just looking for the specific details... |
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| 10:44 ajf | Its LVM that seems to be the problem |
| 10:44 ajf | I'm using the 'Simple LVM example' from the wiki page ATM |
| 10:44 h01ger | which distro? which kernel version? |
| 10:45 ajf | Etch with the fai 3.2.5 on amd64 |
| 10:46 h01ger | and 2.6.18? |
| 10:47 ajf | umm... I guess so. Would that be the default? Lemme just reboot and check ... |
| 10:47 h01ger | 2.6.18 is the default |
| 10:48 ajf | 2.6.18-6-amd64 |
| 10:48 h01ger | MT, do you have any idea what could be wrong? |
| 10:49 ajf | It eventually times out and drops into the busybox ash shell |
| 10:50 ajf | I'm guessing the initrd is missing some kernel modules? |
| 10:51 ajf | I'll double check, but I don't think I've got a /dev/mapper directory |
| 10:52 MT | no idea thus far |
| 10:52 h01ger | are you using latest setup-storage? there have been some changes recently |
| 10:52 ajf | yes. |
| 10:52 h01ger | ajf, are the lvm modules loaded in the initramfs? |
| 10:53 MT | ajf, if you've been following the howto on the wiki page, you should have got lots of debug output |
| 10:53 ajf | I spent hours last Friday not even getting the install to work before I noticed that the scripts were in a state of flux ... |
| 10:53 MT | Thus, if you could paste your fai.log, that would be very very helpful |
| Nick change: fai-guy_ -> fai-guy |
| 10:55 ajf | about that. One thing I haven't set up correctly yet is remote logging to the fai-server :( |
| 10:55 ajf | I can sort that out and have another go. |
| 10:55 MT | well, if you just give it another go, could probably copy off the file via scp or the like |
| 10:55 MT | after all, we don't need the package install thingy |
| 10:56 MT | one more point |
| 10:56 MT | did you take care of the part written in bold face? |
| 10:56 MT | and add lvm2 to one of your client classes as well |
| 10:57 MT | (in the first entry in the list of steps to take care of) |
| 10:57 ajf | I added lvm2 to the end of package_config/FAIBASE |
| 10:58 MT | ok, that should be fine |
| 10:58 ajf | lemme double check the nfsroot ... |
| 10:59 ajf | yep, I've justed chrooted in and all the extra packages specified on the wiki page are installed |
| 11:00 MT | ok, that's fine for the nfsroot |
| 11:00 MT | but we need to check that for the client as well |
| 11:00 MT | but as soon as you can provide the fai.log, we'll do that |
| 11:01 ajf | yeah, I'm with you on that. It might take me a few moments though. One last thing to check would be the presense of the lvm kernel modules in the initrd |
| 11:02 MT | yes, but again this affects only the initrd on the client |
| 11:05 ajf | I see your point. I'll try and get that log file. Meanwhile, there is no /lib/modules/2.6.18-6-amd64/kernel/drivers/md directory on the client initrd. I'm guessing if all had gone well there would have been |
| 11:08 MT | hmm, yes: |
| 11:08 MT | bear:/tmp/initrd# ls lib/modules/2.6.18-6-xen-amd64/kernel/drivers/md/ |
| 11:08 MT | dm-mirror.ko dm-mod.ko dm-snapshot.ko |
| 11:15 ajf | I'm a bit confused setting LOGUSER in /etc/fai/fai.conf. The wiki says the logs are written to /var/log/fai/$hostname, but the fai.conf says the user will need write permission to /srv/tftp/fai |
| 11:16 MT | well, depending on what shall be done... |
| 11:16 MT | fai-chboot will be called to disable (yet another) PXE boot for the client |
| 11:16 MT | thus /srv/tftp/fai |
| 11:16 ajf | oh ok |
| 11:16 MT | but the log files will be copied to /var/log/... |
| 11:24 ajf | right, another install is under way and all being well I should get the logs this time. Assuming I haven't messed up somewhere :) |
| 11:27 ajf | which I obviously have :( |
| 11:28 ajf | After editing fai.conf do I need to rebuild the nfsroot? |
| 11:29 MT | well, not really |
| 11:30 MT | could might just want to copy fai.conf into the nfsroot |
| 11:32 ajf | cheers. I'll try and engage my brain a bit more from now on! :) |
| 11:37 ajf | ok. I've got a log file. It didn't quite end up where I thought it would though! |
| 11:37 ajf | It ended up in /home/fai/hostname |
| 11:37 ajf | I also had to enter a password on the install client |
| 11:38 MT | so probably you'd need to change the home directory of the fai user |
| Action: MT does not use central logging for FAI, so pretty much no idea about that |
| 11:39 ajf | more of a problem though is the fai.log contains about 10 or so lines |
| 11:43 MT | huh? |
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| 11:43 MT | that's not terribly much... |
| 11:46 ajf | yeah, I seem to have broken something when copying /etc/fai/fai.conf onto the nfsroot |
| 11:51 ajf | it would appear that running fai-setup doesn't just copy the fai.conf, but also appends a FAI_CONFIG_SRC line |
| 11:53 ajf | which would explain the "Error: Provide the URL to obtain the fai config storage in $FAI_CONFIG_SRC" line in my otherwise unimpressive fai.log |
| 11:57 ajf | rebuilding the nfsroot also fixed the needing to enter a password for the remote logging |
| 12:01 ajf | where should I post the fai.log file to? Is there anything else I can provide? |
| 12:02 h01ger | paste.debian.net |
| 12:04 ajf | http://paste.debian.net/2677/ |
| 12:05 ajf | My eventual aim is to setup up LVM on top of RAID1, but I thought I'd start with the simplest setup-storage example I could find |
| 12:06 MT | yeah, indeed :-) |
| 12:06 MT | hmm, you've got |
| 12:06 MT | FAI_FLAGS: v |
| 12:06 ajf | I'm off to grab a sandwich. Thanks for your help. I'll be back in about 15 mins |
| 12:06 MT | that should be verbose |
| 12:06 MT | not just v |
| 12:06 ajf | I could postpone that sandwich trip though ... |
| 12:07 MT | :-) |
| 12:08 ajf | I haven't touched FAI_FLAGS |
| 12:09 MT | ah, and please add |
| 12:09 MT | export debug=1 to one of the scripts in class/ |
| 12:09 MT | like FAIBASE.var |
| 12:11 ajf | fai-chboot is setting FAI_FLAGS to v |
| 12:12 ajf | correction |
| 12:12 ajf | i am when running fai-chboot -Ifv hostname |
| 12:13 ajf | I think the fai guide needs updating. But maybe that's what you get from being impatient! :) http://www.informatik.uni-koeln.de/fai/fai-guide/ch-impatient.html |
| 12:14 MT | probably that should read -lFv |
| 12:14 MT | -IFv |
| 12:14 ajf | my bad |
| 12:14 MT | you might have been too impatient :-) |
| 12:15 MT | so it's an uppercase i |
| 12:15 MT | an uppercase f |
| 12:15 MT | and a lowercase v |
| 12:15 MT | IFv |
| 12:17 ajf | I've fixed that and added debug=1 to the end of FAIBASE.var |
| 12:18 ajf | A new install is in progress |
| 12:18 MT | ok, then go and grab your sandwich :-) |
| 12:20 h01ger | sudo make me a sandwhich |
| 12:24 MT | *** No rule to make target |
| 12:24 ajf | http://paste.debian.net/2680/ |
| 12:24 h01ger | tssss |
| 12:24 h01ger | MT, fix your makefile, then :) |
| 12:24 ajf | you're right about the sandwich |
| 12:25 ajf | brb |
| 12:25 ajf | :) |
| 12:26 MT | h01ger, yeah, seems to be missing something |
| 12:27 MT | probably /dev/fridge is not mounted |
| 12:27 MT | ajf, could you try 2 things: |
| 12:28 MT | first, is dm-mod.ko and the like still missing in the initrd? |
| 12:28 MT | if so, try running chroot /target update-initramfs -k all -u |
| 12:28 MT | on the client |
| 12:28 MT | seems like the lvm2 postinst is run after mkinitramfs |
| 13:03 ajf | Do I have to do anything special to get a console on the client? |
| 13:07 MT | you might need to add createvt to the FAI_FLAGS |
| 13:07 MT | in case -IFv doesn't do that anyway |
| 13:07 MT | you could also add sshd to the flags |
| 13:08 MT | I'll be offline now for some hours or so |
| 13:08 MT | it would be cool if you could tell me about your progress at tautschn@model.in.tum.de |
| 13:09 ajf | doh. Well thanks for your help. My sandwich was good, but I'd wish I'd postponed it for longer! :) |
| 13:09 MT | as it seems like we need to take care of some more things when integrating setup-storage, which should happen soon |
| 13:10 MT | ajf, maybe running update-initramfs solves your issues |
| 13:10 MT | (hopefully :-) ) |
| 13:10 ajf | I'll find out in about 3 mins time |
| 13:10 MT | if this is the case, or whatever else is to be blamed: it would be nice if you could tell me later on |
| 13:11 ajf | sure thing, I'll let you know |
| 13:11 MT | I think I need to leave in a few secs, I'll be back online tomorrow at the latest |
| 13:12 ajf | fair enough, I'll drop you an email. Thanks again |
| 13:14 ajf | update-initramfs run, rebooting now ... |
| 13:15 ajf | :) |
| 13:16 ajf | That works |
| 13:16 MT | hey, cool :-) |
| 13:16 MT | mounting your root-fs ok? |
| 13:16 ajf | yeah, whole system boots. |
| 13:16 MT | ok, so you might just want to add the update-initramfs call to one of your scripts! |
| 13:17 MT | I'll note that and we'll have this in the examples once setup-storage gets integrated into mainline |
| 13:17 MT | thanks for testing this! |
| 13:17 MT | well, then, have fun with the raid+LVM setup :-) |
| 13:18 MT | I'm pretty sure that we'll encounter some troubles there |
| 13:18 MT | it's just too untested |
| 13:18 ajf | no problems. Thanks for helping out. I'm gonna try RAID + LVM later |
| 13:18 MT | but we'll get to fix this here online in the next days if you wish |
| 13:18 MT | good luck! |
| 13:18 ajf | I'm not trying to keep any existing partitions so it might work out fine |
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| 14:40 ajf | I've got a query regarding fai-chboot, anybody here know much about it or used it in anger? |
| 14:49 ajf | nevermind, I think I just figured it out |
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| 22:47 Irinix | okay stupid question from someone who's having problems getting fai to find the debian mirror, is there a way to tell it to look for a non network source, say...A CD-Rom? |
| 22:50 istaz | Irinix: you can try using file:///media/cdrom |
| 22:51 istaz | Irinix: is it having trouble finding it during the client installation or the nfsroot construction? |
| 22:51 Irinix | Its not getting to nfs root construction so I'm assuming it's the client install |
| 22:51 Irinix | granted my network infrastrucure is kind of hobbled together here in my bedroom, so it might be in the network that its getting lost. |
| 22:52 Irinix | I'm a hobbiest using literally decade old machines and a hub from I don't know when. |
| 22:54 istaz | you are supposed to create a nfsroot on your server before installing on any client, unless you are using the fai-cd |
| 22:54 Irinix | why do I feel your palm hitting your forehead as you say that to me? |
| 22:56 istaz | damn I'm demasked |
| 22:56 Irinix | its okay, I use that same tone of text when I'm answering a windows question for someone. |
| 22:58 Irinix | so I probably deserved it. |
| 22:58 istaz | well it's not like I'm a fai expert either |
| 22:59 istaz | so are you using the fai-cd from the website ? otherwhise which method are you using? |
| 22:59 Irinix | fai boot floppies |
| 23:00 Irinix | my hardware is just old enough to not support cd-rom booting |
| 23:00 Irinix | or network booting for that matter |
| 23:00 Irinix | so I was going to put the debian installs together on CD and boot fai from floppy looking for that cd |
| 23:01 istaz | wow, you really are using old hardware |
| 23:02 Irinix | indeed. Mostly early Pentium one dells |
| 23:04 istaz | trouble is that with recent version of fai and kernel, the kernel doesn't fit anymore on a floppy |
| 23:04 istaz | but what you will probably want to do first is : apt-get install fai-server |
| 23:04 Irinix | ouch, may need to update my fai |
| 23:04 Irinix | Did that |
| 23:04 istaz | then configure you /etc/fai/make-nfs-root.conf and fai.conf |
| 23:05 istaz | and then run : fai-setup |
| 23:05 Irinix | all the fai installs on my server are done, with the exception of (that I didn't realize till you pointed it out) the NFS root |
| 23:06 istaz | oh and copy the exemple script in /usr/share/doc to your fai configuration space (usually /srv/fai/ or something like that) |
| 23:06 istaz | Irinix: but how did you manage to create a bootfloppy without the nfs root? |
| 23:07 istaz | I thought it didn't allow you to do that |
| 23:07 Irinix | IDK. It's been a while since I've had time to work on this project, and I had a disk sitting on my desk labeled "Fai Boot Floppy" |
| 23:09 Irinix | which would be why I'm having problems I'm assuming. =/ |
| 23:10 istaz | I just thought about something, but to avoid the need to create a fai boot floppy (and making a fitting kernel) you shoud probably use a floppy to boot via PXE |
| 23:10 istaz | http://rom-o-matic.net/ may be a good place to find that |
| 23:11 Irinix | I know I have that kicking around somewhere. |
| 23:11 istaz | but I never tried PXE myself |
| 23:11 Irinix | and I even think I saw mention of it in the FAI faiq |
| 23:11 istaz | yes it's probably in it |
| 23:12 istaz | you should look at the fai guide on the website, it's useful |
| 23:13 istaz | and they have a quickstart chapter > http://www.informatik.uni-koeln.de/fai/fai-guide/ch-impatient.html |
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