Re: setup storage error on multi partition software raid

2010-11-16 Diskussionsfäden Michael Tautschnig
Hi, > Hi, > > Attached please find the debug fai.log from a failed attempt using > setup-storage using a simple machine with two IDE drives, hoping to setup > software raid. The logs indicate that everything seems to be working well, > assigning the appropriate /dev/md number to the proper /de

Re: setup-storage : Error: Error initialising SCSI device /dev/sda - Invalid argument

2010-03-12 Diskussionsfäden Michael Tautschnig
[...] > > > Then, shouldn't setup-storage ignore errors and problems on disks that > > should not be changed, aren't even mentioned in the setup storage > > config file? > > Is that possible, or does parted always try to analyze(or whatever) > > all disks attached to the system, and in this case,

Re: setup-storage : Error: Error initialising SCSI device /dev/sda - Invalid argument

2010-03-04 Diskussionsfäden Michael Tautschnig
> On Wed, Mar 3, 2010 at 7:32 PM, Michael Tautschnig wrote: > > [...] > > > > Could one get any information how the disk label on the SAN was created? > > In case that is not known anymore - is there a command with which that > can be checked, so we can send you the output? > I think the questi

Re: setup-storage : Error: Error initialising SCSI device /dev/sda - Invalid argument

2010-03-04 Diskussionsfäden Henning Sprang
On Wed, Mar 3, 2010 at 7:32 PM, Michael Tautschnig wrote: > [...] > > Could one get any information how the disk label on the SAN was created? In case that is not known anymore - is there a command with which that can be checked, so we can send you the output? Henning -- Henning Sprang http:/

Re: setup-storage : Error: Error initialising SCSI device /dev/sda - Invalid argument

2010-03-04 Diskussionsfäden Michael Tautschnig
> On Wed, Mar 3, 2010 at 7:32 PM, Michael Tautschnig wrote: > > [...] > > > > Could one get any information how the disk label on the SAN was created? > > I'll try to get tha info as well as the parted version. It might a > somewhat older version, as a mirror was used with Lenny, but not > update

Re: setup-storage : Error: Error initialising SCSI device /dev/sda - Invalid argument

2010-03-04 Diskussionsfäden Henning Sprang
On Wed, Mar 3, 2010 at 7:32 PM, Michael Tautschnig wrote: > [...] > > Could one get any information how the disk label on the SAN was created? I'll try to get tha info as well as the parted version. It might a somewhat older version, as a mirror was used with Lenny, but not updated to the newest

Re: setup-storage : Error: Error initialising SCSI device /dev/sda - Invalid argument

2010-03-03 Diskussionsfäden Michael Tautschnig
> On Mon, Mar 01, 2010 at 01:21:07PM +0100, Henning Sprang wrote: > > And I can't try things (myself) - it was a customer system to which I > > have no access anymore and won't too soon as it was only a one-time > > Job. > > I only have the full FAI logs of the host. > > But probably they will find

Re: setup-storage : Error: Error initialising SCSI device /dev/sda - Invalid argument

2010-03-01 Diskussionsfäden Rudy Gevaert
On Mon, Mar 01, 2010 at 01:21:07PM +0100, Henning Sprang wrote: > And I can't try things (myself) - it was a customer system to which I > have no access anymore and won't too soon as it was only a one-time > Job. > I only have the full FAI logs of the host. > But probably they will find time to try

Re: setup-storage : Error: Error initialising SCSI device /dev/sda - Invalid argument

2010-03-01 Diskussionsfäden Henning Sprang
On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 3:45 PM, Rudy Gevaert wrote: > Can you try that (if you are using xen) No for both: It wasn't Xen, but some "normal" HP Server. The special thing with the system was a SAN that was attached - but actually we din't want to touch the disks on the SAN, only install the syste

Re: setup-storage : Error: Error initialising SCSI device /dev/sda - Invalid argument

2010-02-26 Diskussionsfäden Rudy Gevaert
Hello Henning, Quoting "Henning Sprang" : Hi, On Mon, Dec 14, 2009 at 2:20 PM, Rudy Gevaert wrote: Should I move this to the parted list? Sorry for not being able to say anything about this, I've been very busy and did not do anything with FAI the last months. Now that I do some things wi

Re: setup-storage : Error: Error initialising SCSI device /dev/sda - Invalid argument

2010-02-26 Diskussionsfäden Henning Sprang
Hi, On Mon, Dec 14, 2009 at 2:20 PM, Rudy Gevaert wrote: > Should I move this to the parted list? Sorry for not being able to say anything about this, I've been very busy and did not do anything with FAI the last months. Now that I do some things with it again, it took me only 2 days until I st

Re: setup-storage : Error: Error initialising SCSI device /dev/sda - Invalid argument

2009-12-14 Diskussionsfäden Rudy Gevaert
Citeren Rudy Gevaert : partitioning inside dom-U. I don't understand why this worked with my old fai (setup_harddisks). And with setup-storage it doesn't. I used this FAI setup, but configured it to use the old syntax of setup_harddisks. Now it works...: Partitioning local harddis

Re: setup-storage : Error: Error initialising SCSI device /dev/sda - Invalid argument

2009-12-14 Diskussionsfäden Rudy Gevaert
Hi Michael, Citeren Michael Tautschnig : Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Hello Michael, I've been away, so I'm not back to follow up on this. Quoting Michael Tautschnig : >Could you do another run and run pa

Re: setup-storage : Error: Error initialising SCSI device /dev/sda - Invalid argument

2009-12-14 Diskussionsfäden Michael Tautschnig
> Hello Michael, > > I've been away, so I'm not back to follow up on this. > > Quoting Michael Tautschnig : > > >Could you do another run and run parted manually from the shell > >you should get > >dropped into? Like so: > > > >parted -s /dev/sda unit TiB print (should produce said error) > >par

Re: setup-storage : Error: Error initialising SCSI device /dev/sda - Invalid argument

2009-12-14 Diskussionsfäden Rudy Gevaert
Hello Michael, I've been away, so I'm not back to follow up on this. Quoting Michael Tautschnig : Could you do another run and run parted manually from the shell you should get dropped into? Like so: parted -s /dev/sda unit TiB print (should produce said error) parted -s /dev/sda mklabel ms

Re: setup-storage : Error: Error initialising SCSI device /dev/sda - Invalid argument

2009-12-05 Diskussionsfäden Michael Tautschnig
Hi Rudy, sorry for the late reply. [...] > > >I'm not entirely sure about this, but maybe this is a new error message that > >parted prints if the disk does not contain a disk label (i.e., is > >brand-new or > >had been zeroed) or some disklabel that parted doesn't understand. > >Could that be

Re: setup-storage : Error: Error initialising SCSI device /dev/sda - Invalid argument

2009-12-03 Diskussionsfäden Rudy Gevaert
Hi Michael, Quoting Michael Tautschnig : I'm not entirely sure about this, but maybe this is a new error message that parted prints if the disk does not contain a disk label (i.e., is brand-new or had been zeroed) or some disklabel that parted doesn't understand. Could that be the case or

Re: setup-storage : Error: Error initialising SCSI device /dev/sda - Invalid argument

2009-12-02 Diskussionsfäden Michael Tautschnig
Hi Rudy, [...] > > Partitioning local harddisks using setup-storage > Starting setup-storage 1.2+exp > disklist was: sda > Using config file: /var/lib/fai/config/disk_config/SHIBBOLETH_IDP > Input was: > disk_config disk1 fstabkey:label bootable:1 > primary /boot 200 ext3rw creat

Re: setup-storage : Error: Error initialising SCSI device /dev/sda - Invalid argument

2009-12-01 Diskussionsfäden Rudy Gevaert
Citeren Thomas Lange : On Tue, 01 Dec 2009 14:18:36 +0100, Rudy Gevaert said: > INTERNAL ERROR in setup-storage: > Table header not seen yet > Please report this error to the Debian Bug Tracking System. > (STDOUT) Error: Error initialising SCSI device /dev/sda - Invalid ar

Re: setup-storage : Error: Error initialising SCSI device /dev/sda - Invalid argument

2009-12-01 Diskussionsfäden Thomas Lange
> On Tue, 01 Dec 2009 14:18:36 +0100, Rudy Gevaert > said: > INTERNAL ERROR in setup-storage: > Table header not seen yet > Please report this error to the Debian Bug Tracking System. > (STDOUT) Error: Error initialising SCSI device /dev/sda - Invalid argument > Start

setup-storage : Error: Error initialising SCSI device /dev/sda - Invalid argument

2009-12-01 Diskussionsfäden Rudy Gevaert
Hello, I'm trying to install with FAI a virtual xen machine. I'm exporting in dom0 an lvm volume. debug=1 is set. Any idea what is wrong? Thanks in advance, Rudy ... Performing FAI installation. All data may be overwritten! ^G^G^G Calling task_install Calling task_partition Partitioning

Re: setup-storage: error

2009-10-20 Diskussionsfäden Michael Tautschnig
Sorry for this full-quote; I think it might be useful if you could add your information to the bug reported as #404927 (http://bugs.debian.org/404927) for udev people to work around this or kernel folks fix this. Best, Michael [...] > > I get the same problem here on an IBM 3950, my sda device

Re: setup-storage: error

2009-10-16 Diskussionsfäden Mathieu Alorent
Le vendredi 15 mai 2009 à 14:13 +0200, Thomas Lange a écrit : > > On Fri, 15 May 2009 13:48:17 +0200, Alexander Bugl > > said: > > > Hi! > >> > So disk-info tests if the group of /dev/sda is disk -- and in my > case it is: > >> > # ls -al /dev/sda > >> > brw-rw 1 roo

Re: setup-storage: error

2009-05-15 Diskussionsfäden Alexander Bugl
Hi! > If the ouput of > bash -x /usr/lib/fai/disk-info > is ok, I would guess it's because of the wrong group floppy. > Check why your disk belongs to the group floppy. Maybe a > broken udev configuration. Debian Bug #404927 looks promising: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=404927

Re: setup-storage: error

2009-05-15 Diskussionsfäden Thomas Lange
> On Fri, 15 May 2009 16:02:49 +0200, Alexander Bugl > said: >> What does cat /proc/partitions say? > # cat /proc/partitions > major minor #blocks name >8 0 143247360 sda Looks fine. If the ouput of bash -x /usr/lib/fai/disk-info is ok, I would guess it's bec

Re: setup-storage: error

2009-05-15 Diskussionsfäden Alexander Bugl
Hi again! > >> > So disk-info tests if the group of /dev/sda is disk -- and in my > case it is: > >> > # ls -al /dev/sda > >> > brw-rw 1 root floppy 8, 0 May 15 10:36 /dev/sda > > dmesg.log: http://paste.debian.net/36208/ > Your dmesg looks fine. One disk, called sda. So i

Re: setup-storage: error

2009-05-15 Diskussionsfäden Thomas Lange
> On Fri, 15 May 2009 13:48:17 +0200, Alexander Bugl > said: > Hi! >> > So disk-info tests if the group of /dev/sda is disk -- and in my case it is: >> > # ls -al /dev/sda >> > brw-rw 1 root floppy 8, 0 May 15 10:36 /dev/sda > dmesg.log: http://paste.debian.n

Re: setup-storage: error

2009-05-15 Diskussionsfäden Alexander Bugl
Hi! > > So disk-info tests if the group of /dev/sda is disk -- and in my case > it is: > > # ls -al /dev/sda > > brw-rw 1 root floppy 8, 0 May 15 10:36 /dev/sda > Strange. please put your dmesg.log, fai.log and variables.log onto > paste.debian.net. Then We may find the problem.

Re: setup-storage: error

2009-05-15 Diskussionsfäden Thomas Lange
> On Fri, 15 May 2009 13:20:20 +0200, Alexander Bugl > said: > So disk-info tests if the group of /dev/sda is disk -- and in my case it is: > # ls -al /dev/sda > brw-rw 1 root floppy 8, 0 May 15 10:36 /dev/sda Strange. please put your dmesg.log, fai.log and variables.log

Re: setup-storage: error

2009-05-15 Diskussionsfäden Alexander Bugl
Hi! >> So I think inside the NFSroot sda is visible without problems. > I must agree, but will try again :-) . Can you run > '/usr/lib/fai/disk-info' in your shell? Yes, it produces no output. The reason seems to be: # /usr/lib/fai/disk-info [...] stat -c %G /dev/$device ++ stat -c %G /dev/sda

Re: setup-storage: error

2009-05-15 Diskussionsfäden Nicolas Courtel
Alexander Bugl a écrit : Oops, I 've missed this line in your former mail, disklist is not supposed to be empty! Output should be at least "disklist was: sda". It looks like the nfsroot doesn't see /dev/sda. After the installation stops with the error, I have a shell on the still running m

Re: setup-storage: error

2009-05-15 Diskussionsfäden Alexander Bugl
Hi! >> disklist was: > Oops, I 've missed this line in your former mail, disklist is not > supposed to be empty! Output should be at least "disklist was: sda". > It looks like the nfsroot doesn't see /dev/sda. After the installation stops with the error, I have a shell on the still running machi

Re: setup-storage: error

2009-05-15 Diskussionsfäden Nicolas Courtel
Alexander Bugl a écrit : Tried that, after manually labeling the drive both "parted" commands produced no errors, so I restarted the installation. But it still stops with error: ++ debug=1 Calling task_install Calling task_partition Partitioning local harddisks using setup-storage Starting set

Re: setup-storage: error

2009-05-15 Diskussionsfäden Alexander Bugl
Hi! >>> Could you post the result of the following commands, they are the ones >>> used by setup-storage to find the disk configuration: >>> # parted -s /dev/sda unit TiB print >>> # parted -s /dev/sda unit chs print free >> Both produce the same result: >> # parted -s /dev/sda unit TiB print >>

Re: setup-storage: error

2009-05-15 Diskussionsfäden Nicolas Courtel
Alexander Bugl a écrit : Hi Nicolas! Could you post the result of the following commands, they are the ones used by setup-storage to find the disk configuration: # parted -s /dev/sda unit TiB print # parted -s /dev/sda unit chs print free Both produce the same result: # parted -s /d

Re: setup-storage: error

2009-05-15 Diskussionsfäden Alexander Bugl
Hi Nicolas! > Could you post the result of the following commands, they are the ones > used by setup-storage to find the disk configuration: > # parted -s /dev/sda unit TiB print > # parted -s /dev/sda unit chs print free Both produce the same result: # parted -s /dev/sda unit TiB print Error:

Re: setup-storage: error

2009-05-14 Diskussionsfäden Nicolas Courtel
Alexander Bugl a écrit : Hi Nicolas, thanks for your reply. disk_config sda disklabel:msdos primary / 12G ext3 rw,errors=remount-ro primary swap4G swap rw logical /tmp2G ext3 rw createopts="-m 1" logical /var

Re: setup-storage: error

2009-05-14 Diskussionsfäden Alexander Bugl
Hi Nicolas, thanks for your reply. > > disk_config sda disklabel:msdos > > > > primary / 12G ext3 rw,errors=remount-ro > > primary swap4G swap rw > > logical /tmp2G ext3 rw createopts="-m 1" > > logical /var50G-

Re: setup-storage: error

2009-05-14 Diskussionsfäden Nicolas Courtel
Alexander Bugl a écrit : [...] disk_config sda disklabel:msdos primary / 12G ext3 rw,errors=remount-ro primary swap4G swap rw logical /tmp2G ext3 rw createopts="-m 1" logical /var50G-ext3 rw createopt

setup-storage: error

2009-05-14 Diskussionsfäden Alexander Bugl
Hi all, I am new to setup-storge, and on my second test machine I ran into an error: - Fully Automatic Installation - FAI FAI 3.2.20, 04 May 2009 Copyright (c) 1999-2009 Thomas Lange