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| 09:53 roots | hi |
| 09:53 roots | i'm trying to setup fai, but i'm getting an error when i run fai-setup: |
| 09:53 roots | W: Failure trying to run: chroot /data/fai/nfsroot mount -t proc proc /proc |
| 09:53 roots | Aborting |
| 09:54 roots | any idea what the cause of this might be? |
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| 09:55 stockholm | roots: are you root? |
| 09:56 roots | whoami |
| 09:56 roots | root |
| 09:56 h01ger | does "chroot /data/fai/nfsroot" work? |
| 09:57 Mrfai | try fai-setup -v and paste the output to paste.debian.net |
| 09:57 roots | not acutally, i'm getting: |
| 09:57 roots | chroot /data/fai/nfsroot/ |
| 09:57 roots | chroot: cannot run command `/bin/bash': No such file or directory |
| 09:58 roots | there you go: http://www.pastebin.ch/222 |
| 09:59 h01ger | you're chroot is broken |
| 09:59 Mrfai | a broken mirror |
| 10:00 Mrfai | or you /data partition is mounted with nosuid |
| 10:02 roots | recreating the mirror |
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| 10:08 roots | /data is mounted with "defaults" |
| 10:17 Mrfai | roots: try with an official mirror |
| 10:20 roots | Mrfai: ahh, looks way better now. thanks for pointing me to the fact that the mirror is broken! i didn't actually check if the mirror is allright... |
| 11:01 roots | http://www.pastebin.ch/223 any clue on this? |
| 11:25 roots | as far as i understand this, fai is looking for an entry that's not existant. |
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| 11:49 h01ger | roots, looks that mirror is broken too. try a different one |
| 11:50 roots | h01ger, thanks for answering |
| 12:18 roots | hm, changed the mirror to ftp.ch.debian.org, but i'm still getting the error: http://www.pastebin.ch/225 |
| 12:27 oz__ | roots: try de.debian.org |
| 12:37 roots | still same error. it's working when i remove "etch-proposed-updates" from /etc/fai/apt/sources.list |
| 12:42 roots | that's ok for me... |
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| 13:35 ajf | Anybody successfully used fai for a client using the bnx2 network chipset? |
| 14:08 Mrfai | please do not commit something into the svn currently. I will do the cleanup of our svn directory now |
| 14:31 ajf | Is it possible to use apt-pinning during fai-setup? For example, if I want to install a debian sid kernel into an otherwise debian etch nfsroot? |
| 14:33 Mrfai | There may be problems when usinf a kernel from sid with the libc from etch. |
| 14:37 ajf | doh! |
| 14:37 h01ger | Mrfai, really? |
| 14:37 h01ger | IME not for normal usage, maybe when building modules |
| 14:39 ajf | My install client is a Dell PowerEdge 1950 and its prooving a real PITA |
| 14:40 ajf | it hangs indefinately when trying to mount the NFSROOT. |
| 14:41 ajf | If I try a newer kernel, the kernel has been stripped of the Broadcom (eth0) firmware |
| 14:44 Mrfai | h01ger: I have no experiences with kernel from sid, I just tried once to install it, but it depends on newer libc versions. |
| Action: h01ger quite often used sid kernels |
| 14:45 h01ger | without problems |
| 14:47 Mrfai | backported sid kernels, or plain from sid repository? |
| 14:47 h01ger | plain |
| 14:52 ajf | isn't it recommending rather than depending a new libc? |
| 15:05 Mrfai | svn cleanup is completed |
| 15:22 h01ger | das gehört nicht ins debian/changelog :) |
| 15:31 Mrfai | ok, kann ich rausnehmen |
| 15:32 h01ger | es tut auch nicht wirklich weh.. aber ;) |
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| 17:14 ajf | My fai installer isn't booting properly. |
| 17:15 ajf | http://www.informatik.uni-koeln.de/fai/fai-guide/ch-booting.html#s-booterror section 4.9.1 |
| 17:15 ajf | I get dropped into the busybox shell as described |
| 17:16 ajf | looking at live.log, I have 'Mounting unionfs on /root failed: No such device' |
| 17:17 Mrfai | maybe an nfs problem. use the nfs-kernel-server, not the user space server |
| 17:17 ajf | already using |
| 17:18 ajf | SERVER:srv/fai/nfsroot is mounted on /live/image |
| 17:19 ajf | but the config dir hasn't been mounted anywhere |
| 17:21 Mrfai | mounting config is done afer the nfsroot is mounted. I think you nfsroot is not mounted |
| 17:22 ajf | mount says that it is |
| 17:22 ajf | ls /live/image says that it is :) |
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| 17:23 ajf | where's the script that does the mounting kept? |
| 17:25 Mrfai | So, what is you problem? |
| 17:26 ajf | shouldn't something a bit more exiting happen than just being dropped into a busybox shell? |
| 17:28 Mrfai | if you are dropped into a busybox shell, the nfsroot is not mounted or not mounted corretly. |
| 17:28 Mrfai | what does cat /proc/cmdline says? |
| 17:30 ajf | initrd=initrd.img-2.6.22-3-686 ip=dhcp rootdelay=30 root=/dev/nfs nfsroot=/srv/fai/nfsroot boot=live FAI_FLAGS=verbose,sshd,createvt FAI_ACTION=install BOOT_IMAGE=vmlinuz-2.6.22-3-686 |
| 17:30 ajf | PS I've got a really lame graphical terminal console (Dell DRAC5) in which I can't copy and paste |
| 17:31 ajf | moutn |
| 17:31 ajf | ignore that - focus in wrong window :( |
| 17:32 Mrfai | your cmdline looks good |
| 17:33 Mrfai | append the strings debug, then you should get more verbose messages of the initrd when mounting |
| 17:34 ajf | ok, rebooting now |
| 17:35 ajf | thanks for your help BTW. Its taken me ages to even get this far today. |
| 17:38 Mrfai | ajf: your welcome |
| 17:39 ajf | still 'mount: Mounting unionfs on /root failed: No such device' |
| 17:40 Mrfai | do you see the mount request on your nfs server? is the network device enable on your install client? |
| 17:40 ajf | the nfsroot does mount |
| 17:41 ajf | but the unionfs mount then fails |
| 17:42 ajf | http://alexfisher.me.uk/unionfs.bmp |
| 17:42 ajf | see screenshot |
| 17:43 ajf | perhaps its just the kernel I'm using? |
| 17:48 Mrfai | there are problems with unionfs and newer kernels. Wait.. |
| 17:48 ajf | or maybe the version of initramfs-tools I used |
| 17:48 Mrfai | https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux-ubuntu-modules-2.6.22/+bug/150788 |
| 17:49 Mrfai | https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux-source-2.6.22/+bug/137765 |
| 17:49 Mrfai | try to switch to aufs (another unionfs) |
| 17:49 ajf | I think I can go back to using 2.6.18, but I need newer initramfs-tools and/or klibc for the system to boot at all |
| 17:49 ajf | before upgrading those, the boot sequence just hung at mounting root fs |
| 17:50 Mrfai | which hardware do you have? |
| 17:51 ajf | poweredge 1950 |
| 17:51 ajf | with Broadcom bnx2 chipset |
| 17:51 ajf | hence how I ended up using the odd kernel version |
| 17:52 ajf | having had no luck with 2.6.18, I tried kernels from lenny and then sid. Unfortunately, they don't ship with any bnx2 firmware. |
| 17:52 ajf | 2.6.22 from sid Dec2007 does though. |
| 17:53 ajf | however, after messing around with different kernel versions all day, the system still didn't boot |
| 17:53 ajf | With help from #debian-kernel, the problem was eventually put down to buggy initramfs-tools and/or klibc |
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| 17:54 ajf | so I've upgraded them to the versions in sid at the end of last year. This has gotten me further, but now I've hit another problem. |
| 17:54 ajf | It looks as if I might be able to start over with stock etch kernel and backported initramfs-tools/klibc |
| 17:55 ajf | but for now, I have to go home. |
| 17:55 ajf | Thanks for the help though |
| 17:55 ajf | I've got a way forward to try in the morning |
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| 17:59 Mrfai | tomorrow is a day of in (parts of) germany, so I will not be there. |
| 17:59 Mrfai | I don't think the version of klibc or initramfs-tools is a problem. |
| 17:59 ajf | well wish me luck then! :) |
| 18:00 ajf | and enjoy your day off. |
| 18:00 Mrfai | unionfs might be the problem. I will replace it with aufs soon |
| 18:00 ajf | it certainly didn't boot at all until I replaced them |
| 18:01 ajf | The #debian-kernel folks recalled problems relating to nfsroots with klibc/initramfs-tools |
| 18:02 ajf | If the IRC of #debian-kernel is logged anyway, you might want take a quick look through it. |
| 18:02 ajf | But don't look to much as they give fai a bit of a slaging off! :) |
| 18:03 ajf | TTFN |
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