[BProc] bpslave child process dies

[Joshua J. E. <jj...@sa...>]

I think I'm getting very close now.  I'm finally catching some RARPs
with beoserv when a slave boots, although the slave dies pretty
quickly.  The last thing seen on the slave is:

boot: Server IP address: 10.0.4.100
boot: My IP address    : 10.0.4.10
boot: starting bpslave: bpslave -d -i 10.0.4.100 2223
bpslave: IO daemon started; pid=11

beoserv on the master shows:

beoserv: RARP: 00:30:59:00:98:26 == 10.0.4.10
beoserv: Starting node_up worker for 1 clients.
nodeup    : Child process for node 0 died with signal 4


I'm booting from an elf image created from a standard bproc kernel,
along with the initrd created by 'beoboot -2'.  Is this considered a
badbadthing?  Do I need to roll my own initrd and run 'bpslave' from it?

Also, what is the role of the 'bootfile' parameter in
/etc/beowulf/config?  It looks like beoserv feeds it to a slave after a
RARP request, but changing it seems to have no effect.


Sorry for the onslaught of questions, free beer at SC for all who help.
:)

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