Re: [SSI-devel] ssi 0.9 and /dev

[John B. <joh...@hp...>]

Christian Lyra wrote:
>>>	Yes... I'm using debian, so there are a few things that must be did
>>>manually. The first problem I got is fsck saying that it cannot open the
>>>/dev/sda1. I think that the problem is that devfsd was not running. I got
>>>problems too with cmount segfaulting on nodes! I will try again today... BTW
>>>what I have to do to shutdown the cluster? The head node is not cleanly
>>>unmount the /. So i have to fsck after every boot!
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>>Yes, the problem opening /dev/sda1 is probably due to not running devfsd.
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>>I have no clue why cmount would segfault. I wouldn't think it could. You
>>did install the latest tools, correct?
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> 	Welll it's not segaulting anymore, but I'm still having problem
> with ssi 0.9. Now, the head node seems to boot ok. But other nodes dont..
> I got a error like "discovering /dev/nodenum2/dev  error -16" on node
> console. Them the boot goes on but I dont get a login prompt on node
> console.
> 	Loadlevel seems to be not working as it was in 0.8. I didnt had
> enough time to explore this today, but tomorrow I will try again.

Installing the new tools rewrites inittab.ssi. The console lines may be 
incorrect. The -16 error messages are usually benign. Don't worry about 
them.

John


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>>As to the fsck every boot. While I am not seeing the root unmount
>>cleanly, the redhat shutdown script mounts the root read-only
>>successfully which makes it clean for the next boot. Does debian have a
>>similar last-gasp remount in it?
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> 	I think it didnt... it just try to umount. But maybe I can hack
> the shutdown scripts!
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>>John
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