Re: [BProc] slave problems

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These guys are PC/104 nodes using Advanced Digital Logic smartcore
MSMP5SEN/SEV CPU's.  I haven't tried testing memory, but I've got three
identical nodes and they all behave the same.

It's down to the point where I can use one kernel and make it work, or
use my new one which doesn't work.

Unfortunately, I don't have the config for the kernel that works.
You think there might be some kernel magic to boot these chips?  Oh
Minnich, heed my call! :)

I'll keep at it.

-JE

Here's is my .config:
#
# Automatically generated make config: don't edit
#
CONFIG_X86=y
CONFIG_ISA=y
CONFIG_UID16=y

#
# Code maturity level options
#
CONFIG_EXPERIMENTAL=y

#
# Loadable module support
#
CONFIG_MODULES=y
CONFIG_KMOD=y

#
# Processor type and features
#
CONFIG_MPENTIUMIII=y
CONFIG_X86_WP_WORKS_OK=y
CONFIG_X86_INVLPG=y
CONFIG_X86_CMPXCHG=y
CONFIG_X86_XADD=y
CONFIG_X86_BSWAP=y
CONFIG_X86_POPAD_OK=y
CONFIG_RWSEM_XCHGADD_ALGORITHM=y
CONFIG_X86_L1_CACHE_SHIFT=5
CONFIG_X86_TSC=y
CONFIG_X86_GOOD_APIC=y
CONFIG_X86_PGE=y
CONFIG_X86_USE_PPRO_CHECKSUM=y
CONFIG_X86_MCE=y
CONFIG_HIGHMEM4G=y
CONFIG_HIGHMEM=y
CONFIG_SMP=y
CONFIG_HAVE_DEC_LOCK=y

#
# General setup
#
CONFIG_NET=y
CONFIG_X86_IO_APIC=y
CONFIG_X86_LOCAL_APIC=y
CONFIG_PCI=y
CONFIG_PCI_GOANY=y
CONFIG_PCI_BIOS=y
CONFIG_PCI_DIRECT=y
CONFIG_PCI_NAMES=y
CONFIG_HOTPLUG=y

#
# PCMCIA/CardBus support
#
CONFIG_PCMCIA=y
CONFIG_CARDBUS=y

#
# PCI Hotplug Support
#
CONFIG_SYSVIPC=y
CONFIG_BPROC=y
CONFIG_SYSCTL=y
CONFIG_KCORE_ELF=y
CONFIG_BINFMT_AOUT=y
CONFIG_BINFMT_ELF=y
CONFIG_BINFMT_MISC=y
CONFIG_PM=y
CONFIG_SOFTWARE_SUSPEND=y
CONFIG_ACPI=y
CONFIG_ACPI_BUSMGR=y
CONFIG_ACPI_SYS=y
CONFIG_ACPI_CPU=y
CONFIG_ACPI_BUTTON=y
CONFIG_ACPI_AC=y
CONFIG_ACPI_EC=y
CONFIG_ACPI_CMBATT=y
CONFIG_ACPI_THERMAL=y
CONFIG_APM=y
CONFIG_APM_DO_ENABLE=y
CONFIG_APM_CPU_IDLE=y
CONFIG_APM_RTC_IS_GMT=y
CONFIG_APM_REAL_MODE_POWER_OFF=y

#
# Plug and Play configuration
#
CONFIG_PNP=y
CONFIG_ISAPNP=y

#
# Block devices
#
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_FD=y
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_LOOP=m
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_NBD=m
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_RAM=y
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_RAM_SIZE=8192
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_INITRD=y

#
# Networking options
#
CONFIG_PACKET=y
CONFIG_FILTER=y
CONFIG_UNIX=y
CONFIG_INET=y
CONFIG_IP_MULTICAST=y
CONFIG_IP_PNP=y
CONFIG_IP_PNP_DHCP=y
CONFIG_IP_PNP_RARP=y

#
# ATA/IDE/MFM/RLL support
#
CONFIG_IDE=y

#
# IDE, ATA and ATAPI Block devices
#
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDE=y

#
# Please see Documentation/ide.txt for help/info on IDE drives
#
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDEDISK=y
CONFIG_IDEDISK_MULTI_MODE=y
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDECS=m
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDECD=y
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDEFLOPPY=m
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDESCSI=m

#
# IDE chipset support/bugfixes
#
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_CMD640=y
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_RZ1000=y
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDEPCI=y
CONFIG_IDEPCI_SHARE_IRQ=y
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDEDMA_PCI=y
CONFIG_IDEDMA_PCI_AUTO=y
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDEDMA=y
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_ADMA=y
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_PIIX=y
CONFIG_PIIX_TUNING=y
CONFIG_IDEDMA_AUTO=y
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDE_MODES=y

#
# SCSI support
#
CONFIG_SCSI=y

#
# SCSI support type (disk, tape, CD-ROM)
#
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_SD=y
CONFIG_SD_EXTRA_DEVS=40
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_SR=m
CONFIG_SR_EXTRA_DEVS=2
CONFIG_CHR_DEV_SG=m

#
# Some SCSI devices (e.g. CD jukebox) support multiple LUNs
#
CONFIG_SCSI_DEBUG_QUEUES=y
CONFIG_SCSI_MULTI_LUN=y
CONFIG_SCSI_CONSTANTS=y

#
# SCSI low-level drivers
#
CONFIG_SCSI_SYM53C8XX=y
CONFIG_SCSI_NCR53C8XX_DEFAULT_TAGS=4
CONFIG_SCSI_NCR53C8XX_MAX_TAGS=32
CONFIG_SCSI_NCR53C8XX_SYNC=20

#
# Network device support
#
CONFIG_NETDEVICES=y

#
# ARCnet devices
#
CONFIG_DUMMY=m

#
# Ethernet (10 or 100Mbit)
#
CONFIG_NET_ETHERNET=y
CONFIG_NET_PCI=y
CONFIG_EEPRO100=m

#
# Ethernet (1000 Mbit)
#
CONFIG_PPP=m

#
# Wireless LAN (non-hamradio)
#
CONFIG_NET_RADIO=y
CONFIG_HERMES=m

#
# Wireless Pcmcia cards support
#
CONFIG_PCMCIA_HERMES=m
CONFIG_NET_WIRELESS=y

#
# PCMCIA network device support
#
CONFIG_NET_PCMCIA=y
CONFIG_PCMCIA_3C589=m
CONFIG_PCMCIA_3C574=m
CONFIG_PCMCIA_FMVJ18X=m
CONFIG_PCMCIA_PCNET=m
CONFIG_PCMCIA_AXNET=m
CONFIG_PCMCIA_NMCLAN=m
CONFIG_PCMCIA_SMC91C92=m
CONFIG_PCMCIA_XIRC2PS=m
CONFIG_PCMCIA_XIRCOM=m
CONFIG_PCMCIA_XIRTULIP=m
CONFIG_NET_PCMCIA_RADIO=y
CONFIG_PCMCIA_RAYCS=m
CONFIG_PCMCIA_NETWAVE=m
CONFIG_PCMCIA_WAVELAN=m

#
# Input core support
#
CONFIG_INPUT_MOUSEDEV_SCREEN_X=1024
CONFIG_INPUT_MOUSEDEV_SCREEN_Y=768

#
# Character devices
#
CONFIG_VT=y
CONFIG_VT_CONSOLE=y
CONFIG_SERIAL=y
CONFIG_SERIAL_CONSOLE=y
CONFIG_UNIX98_PTYS=y
CONFIG_UNIX98_PTY_COUNT=256

#
# Mice
#
CONFIG_MOUSE=y
CONFIG_PSMOUSE=y

#
# Ftape, the floppy tape device driver
#
CONFIG_AGP=y
CONFIG_AGP_INTEL=y
CONFIG_AGP_I810=y
CONFIG_AGP_VIA=y
CONFIG_AGP_AMD=y
CONFIG_AGP_SIS=y
CONFIG_AGP_ALI=y
CONFIG_DRM=y

#
# DRM 4.1 drivers
#
CONFIG_DRM_NEW=y
CONFIG_DRM_TDFX=y
CONFIG_DRM_RADEON=y

#
# File systems
#
CONFIG_AUTOFS4_FS=y
CONFIG_REISERFS_FS=m
CONFIG_EXT3_FS=y
CONFIG_JBD=y
CONFIG_FAT_FS=m
CONFIG_MSDOS_FS=m
CONFIG_UMSDOS_FS=m
CONFIG_VFAT_FS=m
CONFIG_CRAMFS=m
CONFIG_TMPFS=y
CONFIG_RAMFS=y
CONFIG_ISO9660_FS=y
CONFIG_JOLIET=y
CONFIG_MINIX_FS=m
CONFIG_NTFS_FS=m
CONFIG_PROC_FS=y
CONFIG_DEVPTS_FS=y
CONFIG_ROMFS_FS=m
CONFIG_EXT2_FS=y

#
# Network File Systems
#
CONFIG_NFS_FS=y
CONFIG_NFS_V3=y
CONFIG_NFSD=y
CONFIG_NFSD_V3=y
CONFIG_SUNRPC=y
CONFIG_LOCKD=y
CONFIG_LOCKD_V4=y
CONFIG_ZLIB_FS_INFLATE=m

#
# Partition Types
#
CONFIG_MSDOS_PARTITION=y
CONFIG_NLS=y

#
# Native Language Support
#
CONFIG_NLS_DEFAULT="iso8859-1"

#
# Console drivers
#
CONFIG_VGA_CONSOLE=y
CONFIG_VIDEO_SELECT=y

#
# Frame-buffer support
#
CONFIG_FB=y
CONFIG_DUMMY_CONSOLE=y
CONFIG_FB_VESA=y
CONFIG_VIDEO_SELECT=y
CONFIG_FBCON_CFB8=y
CONFIG_FBCON_CFB16=y
CONFIG_FBCON_CFB24=y
CONFIG_FBCON_CFB32=y
CONFIG_FONT_8x8=y
CONFIG_FONT_8x16=y

#
# Sound
#
CONFIG_SOUND=y
CONFIG_SOUND_ES1371=m
CONFIG_SOUND_ICH=m

#
# USB support
#
CONFIG_USB=m

#
# USB Host Controller Drivers
#
CONFIG_USB_UHCI_ALT=m

#
# USB Device Class drivers
#
CONFIG_USB_STORAGE=m

#
# Kernel hacking
#
CONFIG_DEBUG_KERNEL=y
CONFIG_MAGIC_SYSRQ=y

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Josh England
Sandia National Laboratory, Livermore, CA
Distributed Information Systems
email: jj...@sa...
phone: (925) 294-2076

On Mon, 2002-10-28 at 12:21, steven james wrote:
> Greetings,
> 
> I've seen similar when a network card of driver had problems. It can also
> happen if memory isn't right. Have you tried running memtest86 on it
> (Recent memtest86 build with an elf image suitable for netbooting in
> etherboot).
> 
> Which chipset/mainboard?
> 
> G'day,
> sjames
> 
> 
> On 28 Oct 2002, Joshua J. England wrote:
> 
> > Hello,
> > 
> > //** THE SETUP **
> > I've got a test cluster that works using bproc-3.1.9 (RH7.2 master node)
> > from the March ClusterMatic CD.  I'm trying to build a new master node
> > (RH8.0) from source using bproc-3.2.2 with beoboot-lanl.1.3.  Beowulf
> > starts up clean.
> > 
> > Nodes all boot with linuxbios, so I don't need to muck with a phase 1
> > kernel.
> > 
> > The phase 2 kernel was built with:
> > 'beoboot -2 -n -o vmlinuz-beoboot'.
> > 
> > 
> > //** THE PROBLEM **
> > When a slave boots, it gets stuck in an infinte loop like such:
> > while (1) {
> > // slave issues dhpc request
> > // slave does arp for master -- master responds
> > // dhcp serves up the kernel
> > // new in.tftpd process starts up on master
> > // slave starts the tftp download and downloads a few blocks
> > }
> > 
> > I end up with tons of tftp daemons all trying to serve a single node,
> > and beoserv never receives a RARP.
> > 
> > This seems detached from bproc master problems --stopping beowulf
> > produces the same effect.
> > 
> > So the question is:  has anyone seen this before?  What is causing the
> > slave to continue to issue DHCP requests after the first request
> > seemingly succeeds?  Everything works fine when using the 3.1.9 master
> > node.  Is this merely another SUA (Stupid User Artifact) where the
> > answer should be blindingly obvious?
> > 
> > Thanks for any help,
> > 
> > -JE
> > -----------------------------------------------
> > Josh England
> > Sandia National Laboratory, Livermore, CA
> > Distributed Information Systems
> > email: jj...@sa...
> > phone: (925) 294-2076
> > 
> > 
> > 
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