[07:46] ErKa (~keryell@109.0.36.183) joined #fai. [08:04] justleen (~leen@rev-131-102.virtu.nl) joined #fai. [08:27] siggg (~jean@tra78-5-88-172-128-32.fbx.proxad.net) joined #fai. [09:12] eartoast (~glawe@login.physik.fu-berlin.de) left irc: Quit: leaving [09:12] eartoast (~glawe@login.physik.fu-berlin.de) joined #fai. [09:19] verwilst (~verwilst@router.begen1.office.netnoc.eu) joined #fai. [09:41] \sh (~shermann@nat.de.netviewer.com) joined #fai. [10:30] pav5088 (~Mark@123.208.44.136) joined #fai. [10:35] pav5088 (~Mark@123.208.44.136) left irc: Quit: Leaving [10:53] Mrfai (~lange@malzmuehle.informatik.uni-koeln.de) joined #fai. [11:29] ErKa (~keryell@109.0.36.183) left irc: Ping timeout: 480 seconds [13:50] partner_ (joonas@ajaton.net) left irc: Remote host closed the connection [13:54] mt: "Can't initialize physical volume "foobar" of volume group "vgroup" without -ff" -> any hints how to force creation of lvm physical volume? [13:56] Action: mikap tries createopts=-ff [13:58] partner (joonas@ajaton.net) joined #fai. [14:05] hm nope, createopts=-ff can't be assigned to lvm pv creation AFAICS :-/ [14:09] Action: mikap wondering whether setup-storage_pvcreate-old-lvm is necessary [14:11] alekibango_ (~alekibang@ip-94-113-35-25.net.upcbroadband.cz) joined #fai. [14:11] alekibango_ (~alekibang@ip-94-113-35-25.net.upcbroadband.cz) left irc: Remote host closed the connection [14:30] Mrfai: the console in fai client installation is pretty broken :-/ is this because of the FAI logo stuff? [14:32] mikap: yes. [14:32] touch /usr/lib/fai/nfsroot/.nocolorlog [14:32] touch /usr/lib/fai/nfsroot/.nocolorlogo [14:32] sry. [14:32] yeah, trying that [14:33] touch /srv/fai/nfsroot/live/filesystem.dir/.nocolorlogo :) [14:33] okay :) [14:39] or just call reset once in the console [14:40] Mrfai: that won't fix all problems. [14:41] I never had problems after calling reset. What are your problems then? [14:41] line-wrap. [14:44] ... and the boot history is gone [14:47] everything is also available in the log files [14:48] it destroys nothing, I agree. [14:48] but it takes time to figure it out and why browse into logfile if you could read it from the console anyway? [14:49] Mrfai: reset doesn't work [14:49] and one _never_ needs a logo except to show-off. [14:50] Mrfai: why can't /etc/init.d/rcS be re-executed? [14:52] mikap: I don't know? Never tried it. [14:52] I think some things will not work, for e.g. restarting sshd is not implemented [14:52] fai just starts it, not checking if it already runs. [14:53] Same for mounting some specific directories, like config space [14:55] Mrfai: that's what i don't get :) IMO this should just work[tm] :) [14:57] Yes, but the "just work[tm]" is obstructed by the "give me more time" patents :-) [15:01] no, proper design :) [15:05] mt: http://grml.org/tmp/fai_format_log.txt -> pvremove is missing for whatever reason :-/ on second execution it works [15:06] Mrfai: does "man less" work for you on fai's install console? [15:10] siggg (~jean@tra78-5-88-172-128-32.fbx.proxad.net) left irc: Ping timeout: 480 seconds [15:10] Mrfai: to be honest, the console is _very_ broken. [15:10] steals some time during installs. [15:12] when I do remote login man less works [15:13] yeah, the console *is* broken, "reset" fails with "standard error: Invalid argument" [15:14] even on the console man less work perfect. [15:14] I see the "invalid argument" error very seldom. [15:14] Mrfai: after fai installation or its breakage? don't think so ;) [15:15] during installation. For e.g. at the end when typing ctrl-c [15:15] Mrfai: just works on tty != tty1 [15:15] mt: http://grml.org/tmp/format_log_working.txt -> after re-execution, whereas http://grml.org/tmp/fai_format_log.txt is the initial output (yeah, applied -d to the setup-storage call) [15:16] Action: mikap pretty annoyed... [15:22] ErKa (~keryell@183.36.0-109.rev.gaoland.net) joined #fai. [15:39] mt: setup-storage doesn't find the existing pv volume [15:44] mikap: grml64_sid_20101209 boots nicely from usb on a dual CPU hexa-core, 48GB RAM supermicro machine. [15:45] Mrfai: cool :) do you know what graphics card it's inside this machine? [15:46] MGA G200eW WPCM450 [Hermon] - Winbond/Nuvoton [15:47] thx [16:12] justleen (~leen@rev-131-102.virtu.nl) left irc: Quit: Leaving. [16:53] verwilst (~verwilst@router.begen1.office.netnoc.eu) left irc: Quit: Ex-Chat [16:54] OMFG.... http://grml.org/tmp/fai_error.log & [16:56] ? [16:56] Mounting /dev/FAIBASE/rootfs to /target/ [16:56] mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/mapper/FAIBASE-rootfs, [16:56] and just continues without rootfs.... [16:56] *ouch* [16:57] i c [16:57] mount2dir $FAI_ROOT $LOGDIR/fstab [16:57] if [ "$?" -eq 1 ]; then [16:57] wholy cow! [16:59] I think mount2dir needs set -e [17:01] it has exit 4 inside and the outside code checks for -eq :-/ [17:02] mikap: so, you know the fix! [17:02] Oh shit. Wrong test. Sure -ge would be much better. [17:02] Action: oz_ tries alway to look on the bright side of life [17:02] But I'm not sure if every error during the run of mount2dir is catched. So set -e would also be good [17:02] Mrfai: -ne! [17:03] mikap: OK. Are negative exit codes possible? [17:04] Mrfai: in shell they are undefined behaviour [17:04] mount2dir $FAI_ROOT $LOGDIR/fstab [17:04] if [ "$?" -ne 0 ]; then [17:04] sendmon "TASKERROR mountdisks 705" [17:04] this catches my issue.... though i really don't want to know what might break then... [17:05] and looking at "swapon -p1 $sd" i might come up with a swap-device using spaces inside... [17:07] fai: 3 lange committed revision 6231 to 7 fai: catch every exit code != 0 from mount2dir [17:08] mikap: yes, we should test it.... [18:16] ErKa (~keryell@183.36.0-109.rev.gaoland.net) left irc: Ping timeout: 480 seconds [19:06] ballison (~ballison@209.156.160.90) joined #fai. [19:07] oh wow there are people here. :) [19:07] hi brad [19:07] i was sitting on the efnet #fai wondering why no one was there. :) [19:07] Hi Thomas. thanks for your help thus far [19:07] do you prefer me to talk in the open channel or via /msg's ? [19:07] what is your FAI_VERSION inside the nfsroot? [19:08] export FAI_VERSION="FAI 3.1.8, 13 Mar 2007" [19:09] ok, it's older than your version on your install server. That's why make-fai-nfsroot -vk does not work. [19:09] mabe rename your actual nfsroot to nfsroot.old [19:10] then recreate a new nfsroot using make-fai-nfsroot -v [19:10] Now, I have to leave. Please post if this works. I will get the irc logs [19:10] Mrfai (~lange@malzmuehle.informatik.uni-koeln.de) left irc: Quit: leaving [19:12] k [19:20] I'm trying to run make-fai-nfsroot -vk and getting all sorts of chroot errors like , "chroot: cannot run command `apt-get': No such file or directory" [19:28] ballison: did you rebuild it again? [19:29] no [19:29] i tried to rebuild it and it was even worse [19:29] same errors - chroot errors [19:30] http://pastebin.com/raw.php?i=UGeigY1M [19:30] waht is your current fai version? [19:30] that's what happened when i moved the nfsroot to nfsroot.old and reran make-fai-nfsroot -v [19:30] which debian version? [19:30] alek: that's what confusing. [19:31] do you ahve approx running? [19:31] hold and i'll show you . the versions reported on teh file system and the version reported via dpkg do not match. [19:31] you are still using etch in that config :) [19:31] that should be lenny now [19:31] or even squeeze :D [19:31] etch server. [19:31] hold [19:32] ballison: i dont know, i do not run etch for years now [19:32] ballison: downlaoding etch base failed [19:33] not sure why [19:33] you migth try to increase verbosity of approx [19:33] or use another url for debian mirror [19:33] http://etchmirror:9999/debian/dists/etch/Release <- this failed [19:34] ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/ <-- there is no etch [19:34] you should really upgrade to debian lenny [19:34] :D [19:35] or maybe squeeze which will be stable really soon now [19:35] (TM) [19:36] yeah - i've been at this company for 4 days and was told to go install a server [19:36] the guy who set these fai servers up isn't here. [19:39] \sh (~shermann@nat.de.netviewer.com) left irc: Remote host closed the connection [19:40] how do i know that i'm running etch? [19:41] the debian_release file says 5.0.4 [19:41] i'm to assume that's etch [19:42] well the name of the box is "etchmirror" so maybe that's a clue. :) [19:53] siggg (~jean@tra78-5-88-172-128-32.fbx.proxad.net) joined #fai. [19:56] siggg (~jean@tra78-5-88-172-128-32.fbx.proxad.net) left irc: [20:22] ballison, 5.0.4 is lenny [20:22] etch is gone from ftp.debian.org [20:22] its still available at archive.debian.org [20:22] Action: h01ger got rid of his last etch machine yesterday :-) [20:43] siggg (~jean@tra78-5-88-172-128-32.fbx.proxad.net) joined #fai. [20:50] okay - i have a dumb newbie question. [20:50] my boss wants to keep using the older version of FAI and just rebuild the kernel that the initrd uses [20:50] is there a way to do this? [20:52] basically i need to know how to build a FAI kernel that's bootable with all the drivers I need. 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