Re: issue with install_packages in FAI 5.0.3

2016-04-14 Diskussionsfäden Andrew Ruthven
On Fri, 2016-04-15 at 11:49 +1200, Andrew Ruthven wrote: > On Tue, 2016-04-12 at 10:10 +0200, Thomas Lange wrote: > > You can disable the ramdisk by setting > > FAI_RAMDISK=/doesnotexist > > in class/*.var > I've put this into LAST.var and now I can complete installs without > hacking /usr/lib/fai/

Re: issue with install_packages in FAI 5.0.3

2016-04-14 Diskussionsfäden Andrew Ruthven
On Tue, 2016-04-12 at 10:10 +0200, Thomas Lange wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > On Tue, 12 Apr 2016 12:04:57 +1200, Andrew Ruthven > > > > > etc.gen.nz> said: > > Could not open file /var/lib/dpkg/status - open (2: No such > file or > > directory) > Another

Re: issue with install_packages in FAI 5.0.3

2016-04-12 Diskussionsfäden Thomas Lange
> On Tue, 12 Apr 2016 12:04:57 +1200, Andrew Ruthven > said: > Could not open file /var/lib/dpkg/status - open (2: No such file or > directory) Another cause could be, that you machine does not have much RAM. FAI is putting a ramdisk (tmpfs) on top of /var/lib/dpkg. If this gets

Re: issue with install_packages in FAI 5.0.3

2016-04-12 Diskussionsfäden Thomas Lange
> On Tue, 12 Apr 2016 12:04:57 +1200, Andrew Ruthven > said: > because /var/lib/dpkg in the running install box is empty. The logic in Hi Andrew, I'm pretty sure this error is caused by something that happens before. Before install_packages is started, the base file is exstracted, w

issue with install_packages in FAI 5.0.3

2016-04-11 Diskussionsfäden Andrew Ruthven
Hey, I'm in the process of updating my FAI nfsroot to Jessie, and FAI 5.0.3. I've discovered an issue with install_packages. It seems that Apt::Pkg is causing issues. I'm getting the following error message: ... install_packages: read config file LAST Could not open file /var/lib/dpkg/status - o