Re: FAI 3.3 released

2009-11-03 Diskussionsfäden Dirk Geschke
x27;m using it on one of my > servers > and I believe several others are doing so too. wow, that is what I call a fast answer! Many thanks and best regards Dirk -- +------+ | Dr. Dirk Geschke / Plankensteinweg 61/ 8

Re: FAI 3.3 released

2009-11-03 Diskussionsfäden Dirk Geschke
filesystem, using xfs and some other special settings. But it would be much easier if we can use fai to keep the system up-to-date... Best regards Dirk -- +--+ | Dr. Dirk Geschke / Plankensteinweg 61/ 85435

Re: FAI 3.3 released

2009-11-06 Diskussionsfäden Dirk Geschke
nst file is a really great tool! Best regards Dirk -- +------+ | Dr. Dirk Geschke / Plankensteinweg 61/ 85435 Erding| | Telefon: 08122-559448 / Mobil: 0176-96906350 / Fax: 08122-9818106 | | d...@geschke-onli

Re: GRUB2

2009-11-09 Diskussionsfäden Dirk Geschke
gards Dirk -- +------+ | Dr. Dirk Geschke / Plankensteinweg 61/ 85435 Erding| | Telefon: 08122-559448 / Mobil: 0176-96906350 / Fax: 08122-9818106 | | d...@geschke-online.de / d...@lug-erding.de / kont...@lug-erding.de | +--+

Strange AUFS problem with squeeze...

2011-02-08 Diskussionsfäden Dirk Geschke
/fai-squeeze/nfsroot boot=live FAI_FLAGS=verbose,sshd,create vt FAI_ACTION=install BOOT_IMAGE=vmlinuz-2.6.32-5-amd64 Very strange... Best regards Dirk -- +------+ | Dr. Dirk Geschke / Plankensteinweg 61/ 85435 Erding

Lenny-Server and Squeeze-Client -> hard link problem

2011-02-17 Diskussionsfäden Dirk Geschke
f fai-client, fai-nfsroot and fai-setup-storage. It is all AMD64. Has anyone an idea what is wrong here? I am a little bit clueless about this problem... Best regards Dirk -- +--+ | Dr. Dirk Geschke / Plankensteinw

Re: Lenny-Server and Squeeze-Client -> hard link problem?

2011-02-17 Diskussionsfäden Dirk Geschke
a... Anyone else can help me a step further? Best regards Dirk -- +----------+ | Dr. Dirk Geschke / Plankensteinweg 61/ 85435 Erding| | Telefon: 08122-559448 / Mobil: 0176-96906350 / Fax: 08122-9818106 | | d.

Re: Lenny-Server and Squeeze-Client -> hard link problem?

2011-02-17 Diskussionsfäden Dirk Geschke
mpt... So probably there went something wrong with the fai-setup, I guess... Best regards Dirk -- +------+ | Dr. Dirk Geschke / Plankensteinweg 61/ 85435 Erding| | Telefon: 08122-559448 / Mobil: 0176-9690635

Re: start-stop-daemon ..... Doing nothing

2011-02-23 Diskussionsfäden Dirk Geschke
essages are ok, they avoid unneeded software starts during the install process. Take a look at the log files in /tmp/fai/ and look at the output of dmesg. Best regards Dirk -- +------+ | Dr. Dirk Geschke / Plankenste

Bug in FAIBASE/30-interface?

2011-02-23 Diskussionsfäden Dirk Geschke
if [ $FAI_ACTION != "softupdate" ] then if ifclass DHCPC ... else ... fi fi fcopy -i ... Best regards Dirk -- +------+ | Dr. Dirk Geschke / Plankensteinweg 61/ 85435 Er

Re: Strange AUFS problem with squeeze...

2011-03-11 Diskussionsfäden Dirk Geschke
. Why I AUFS dies is still not known, but I do not care about this any longer. Best regards and thank you for replying Dirk -- +----------+ | Dr. Dirk Geschke / Plankensteinweg 61/ 85435 Erding| | Telefon: 08122-559448

Wheezy and cfengine?

2013-03-03 Diskussionsfäden Dirk Geschke
isn't there by default? I guess, there is a reason for this... Can someone enlight me on this topic? Best regards Dirk -- +--+ | Dr. Dirk Geschke / Plankensteinweg 61/ 85435 Erding| | Telefon: 08122-5

Re: Wheezy and cfengine?

2013-03-03 Diskussionsfäden Dirk Geschke
cfengine3? Up to now the old version worked fine... Best regards Dirk -- +------+ | Dr. Dirk Geschke / Plankensteinweg 61/ 85435 Erding| | Telefon: 08122-559448 / Mobil: 0176-96906350 / Fax: 08122-9818106 | | d...@ge

Wheezy and Multi-Arch...

2013-03-06 Diskussionsfäden Dirk Geschke
regards Dirk, just trying to get a 32-bit iceweasel running on amd64... -- +--+ | Dr. Dirk Geschke / Plankensteinweg 61/ 85435 Erding| | Telefon: 08122-559448 / Mobil: 0176-96906350 / Fax: 08122-9818106 | | d

Re: Wheezy and Multi-Arch...

2013-03-06 Diskussionsfäden Dirk Geschke
h to install i386 packages via package_config. I will give it a try Best regards Dirk -- +--+ | Dr. Dirk Geschke / Plankensteinweg 61/ 85435 Erding| | Telefon: 08122-559448 / Mobil: 0176-96906350 / Fax: 08122-9818106 | | d...@geschke-online.de / d...@lug-erding.de / kont...@lug-erding.de | +--+

Re: Wheezy and Multi-Arch...

2013-03-06 Diskussionsfäden Dirk Geschke
ms if I try to install another architecture than amd64. Best regards and thanks for the tips Dirk -- +--+ | Dr. Dirk Geschke / Plankensteinweg 61/ 85435 Erding| | Telefon: 08122-559448 / Mobil: 0176-96906350 / Fax: 08122-9818106 | | d...@geschke-online.de / d...@lug-erding.de / kont...@lug-erding.de | +--+

Re: missing :vers=3 in nfsroot

2013-03-07 Diskussionsfäden Dirk Geschke
Best regards Dirk -- +------+ | Dr. Dirk Geschke / Plankensteinweg 61/ 85435 Erding| | Telefon: 08122-559448 / Mobil: 0176-96906350 / Fax: 08122-9818106 | | d...@geschke-online.de / d...@lug-erding.de / kont...@lug-erding.de | +--+

FAIBASE/10-misc and hostname

2013-03-11 Diskussionsfäden Dirk Geschke
est regards Dirk -- +--+ | Dr. Dirk Geschke / Plankensteinweg 61/ 85435 Erding| | Telefon: 08122-559448 / Mobil: 0176-96906350 / Fax: 08122-9818106 | | d...@geschke-online.de / d...@lug-erding.de / kont...@lug-erding.de | +--+

Re: FAIBASE/10-misc and hostname

2013-03-11 Diskussionsfäden Dirk Geschke
ing, the scripts worked very well for maintenace without these variables. But as I tried to install a new system per PXE boot sometime later, all crashed due to AUFS bugs. No question, it was my mistake, but it took long to identify the error in the scripts, since I got error messages from

Re: FAIBASE/10-misc and hostname

2013-03-12 Diskussionsfäden Dirk Geschke
nstallation, tips/tricks, trouble shooting, etc. One can even put links there to better places/explanation, but one would have a good starting point in cases of problems/questions/ideas. It's just an idea... ;-) Best regards Dirk -- +

Re: FAIBASE/10-misc and hostname

2013-03-12 Diskussionsfäden Dirk Geschke
ed by this: That is really difficult to identify... Best regards Dirk -- +------+ | Dr. Dirk Geschke / Plankensteinweg 61/ 85435 Erding| | Telefon: 08122-559448 / Mobil: 0176-96906350 / Fax: 08122-9818106 | | d...@geschke-online.de / d...@lug-erding.de / kont...@lug-erding.de | +--+

Re: FAIBASE/10-misc and hostname

2013-03-12 Diskussionsfäden Dirk Geschke
ut shouldn't we first agree on where to put all the tips, tricks and hints? Or do you think, this would be the right place? Best regards Dirk -- +------+ | Dr. Dirk Geschke / Plankensteinweg 61/ 85435 Erding

Tips and Tricks

2013-03-13 Diskussionsfäden Dirk Geschke
/Tips_and_tricks I think it is a good idea to document the own solutions here (one has to document them anywhere) and maybe someone else has even a better solution? Best regards Dirk -- +--+ | Dr. Dirk Geschke

Re: FAI 4 - forcing dracut/dhcp to specific interface

2013-03-20 Diskussionsfäden Dirk Geschke
guess a ip=eth0:dhcp should do the job? But I did never test it... Best regards Dirk -- +------+ | Dr. Dirk Geschke / Plankensteinweg 61/ 85435 Erding| | Telefon: 08122-559448 / Mobil: 0176-96906350 / F

Re: /srv/fai/nfsroot/live/filesystem.dir

2013-06-12 Diskussionsfäden Dirk Geschke
t... Best regards Dirk -- +------+ | Dr. Dirk Geschke / Plankensteinweg 61/ 85435 Erding| | Telefon: 08122-559448 / Mobil: 0176-96906350 / Fax: 08122-9818106 | | d...@geschke-online.de / d...@lug-erding.de / kont...@lug-erding.de | +--+

Re: Problems with wheezy installation on multi nic servers

2013-08-27 Diskussionsfäden Dirk Geschke
OUNTDOPTS="--no-nfs-version 4" and restart the nfs-kernel server. But Thomas mentioned, that this might not work... Best regards Dirk -- +------+ | Dr. Dirk Geschke / Plankensteinweg 61/ 85435 Erding|

Re: Source dir for fcopy

2015-01-21 Diskussionsfäden Dirk Geschke
nts of class QAAU to /root/.ssh/authorized_keys You have to take care, that the target directory /root/.ssh exists, otherwise fcopy will fail. Best regards Dirk -- +--+ | Dr. Dirk Geschke / Plankensteinweg 61/ 85435

Re: task_error bei softupdate

2015-02-17 Diskussionsfäden Dirk Geschke
loggt. Das macht /usr/lib/fai/check_status. Aber mit der Fehlerausgabe endet es auch, call_hook() wird danach normal beendet. Hier müsste eigentlich ein exit erfolgen, wenn $? gleich 99 ist (das wird in die() auf diesen Wert gesetzt), täte ich sagen... Viele Grüße Dirk -- +-

Re: Re: task_error bei softupdate

2015-02-19 Diskussionsfäden Dirk Geschke
nd somit wird das Ergebnis vom hook ignoriert. Die Frage ist also eher: Soll dann abgebrochen werden oder soll der Wert ignoriert werden. Das ist eine Designentscheidung, wobei ich zu ersterem tendiere: Wenn es einen fatalen Fehler in einem hook gibt, sollte FAI abbrechen. Dafür scheint mir der Erro

Re: jessie forcedeth

2015-05-18 Diskussionsfäden Dirk Geschke
tion to avoid this. Or the timeout may be increased in the dhclient configuration? Best regards Dirk -- +--+ | Dr. Dirk Geschke / Plankensteinweg 61/ 85435 Erding| | Telefon: 08122-559448 / Mobil: 0176-969

Recommendations regarding Debian Jessie and systemd?

2015-06-18 Diskussionsfäden Dirk Geschke
gable) system-v-init? Any suggestions, ideas, workable solutions, ...? Best regards Dirk, who is still unsure wether he should give systemd a try... -- +------+ | Dr. Dirk Geschke / Plankensteinweg 61/ 85435 Erding

Re: Recommendations regarding Debian Jessie and systemd?

2015-06-19 Diskussionsfäden Dirk Geschke
more? Best regards Dirk -- +------+ | Dr. Dirk Geschke / Plankensteinweg 61/ 85435 Erding| | Telefon: 08122-559448 / Mobil: 0176-96906350 / Fax: 08122-9818106 | | d...@geschke-online.de / d...@lug-erding.de / kont...@lug-erding.de | +--+

Re: Recommendations regarding Debian Jessie and systemd?

2015-06-19 Diskussionsfäden Dirk Geschke
uld take care of via FAI and create a /var/log/journal directory. It's not really a problem, one has to have it in mind. But maybe someone has it all together, what has to be done in order to work effectively with systemd. Best regards Dirk -- +-------

Re: Recommendations regarding Debian Jessie and systemd?

2015-06-19 Diskussionsfäden Dirk Geschke
t; executes a "killall ssh" before shutdown. Its not really a nice > thing, but at least the sessions dont hang anymore Ah, that's good to know. I'm not so far yet to stumble around this but probably I will... Thanks and best regards Dirk -- +---

Jessie-client and missing /var/lib/fai/config?

2015-06-22 Diskussionsfäden Dirk Geschke
miss something? Best regards Dirk -- +------+ | Dr. Dirk Geschke / Plankensteinweg 61/ 85435 Erding| | Telefon: 08122-559448 / Mobil: 0176-96906350 / Fax: 08122-9818106 | | d...@geschke-online.de / d...@lug-er

no writeable /tmp on PXE-Boot...

2016-05-27 Diskussionsfäden Dirk Geschke
Dirk -- +--+ | Dr. Dirk Geschke / Plankensteinweg 61/ 85435 Erding| | Telefon: 08122-559448 / Mobil: 0176-96906350 / Fax: 08122-9818106 | | d...@geschke-online.de / d...@lug-erding.de / kont...@lug-erding.de | +--+

Re: no writeable /tmp on PXE-Boot...

2016-05-27 Diskussionsfäden Dirk Geschke
regards Dirk -- +--+ | Dr. Dirk Geschke / Plankensteinweg 61/ 85435 Erding| | Telefon: 08122-559448 / Mobil: 0176-96906350 / Fax: 08122-9818106 | | d...@geschke-online.de / d...@lug-erding.de / kont...@lug-erding.de | +--+

Re: no writeable /tmp on PXE-Boot...

2016-05-27 Diskussionsfäden Dirk Geschke
too, removed the old nfsroot and did a fai-setup -v again. Now I'm getting a little bit further... So please ignore the noise... Best regards Dirk -- +------+ | Dr. Dirk Geschke / Plankensteinweg 61/ 85435 Erding

unmet dependencies during FAI installation

2020-06-17 Diskussionsfäden Dirk Geschke
his case it does not happen. I'm wondering why Has anyone an idea? Best regards Dirk -- +--+ | Dr. Dirk Geschke / Plankensteinweg 61/ 85435 Erding| | Telefon: 08122-559448 / Mobil: 0176-96906350 / Fa

Re: unmet dependencies during FAI installation

2020-06-17 Diskussionsfäden Dirk Geschke
not available or consolekit Package not available Ok, I have never seen missing dependencies on debian stable... BTW: Does someone know how this might have happend? Best regards Dirk -- +------+ | Dr. Dirk Geschke / Plan

Installation of debian testing packets...

2020-07-15 Diskussionsfäden Dirk Geschke
, but maybe there is already a solution for this problem? Best regards Dirk -- +--+ | Dr. Dirk Geschke / Plankensteinweg 61/ 85435 Erding| | Telefon: 08122-559448 / Mobil: 0176-96906350 / Fax: 08122-9818106

Re: Installation of debian testing packets...

2020-07-15 Diskussionsfäden Dirk Geschke
more structured and easier to identify... Best regards Dirk -- +------+ | Dr. Dirk Geschke / Plankensteinweg 61/ 85435 Erding| | Telefon: 08122-559448 / Mobil: 0176-96906350 / Fax: 08122-9818106 | | d...@geschke-online.de / d...@lug-erding.de / kont...@lug-erding.de | +--+

Re: Installation of debian testing packets...

2020-07-16 Diskussionsfäden Dirk Geschke
t; > which is easier to understand but would be limited to adding -t to > apt-get/apt. the second option sounds good for me, its more intuitive... Best regards Dirk -- +------+ | Dr. Dirk Geschke / Plankensteinweg

Re: Installing metapackage with fai.me

2023-11-28 Diskussionsfäden Dirk Geschke
: metapackages Source: debian-games ... Looks like an interesting package for gaming... Best regards Dirk -- +------+ | Dr. Dirk Geschke / Plankensteinweg 61/ 85435 Erding| | Telefon: 08122-559448 / Mobil: 01

Re: Boot-looping or hanging Debian 11 FAI UEFI PXE

2024-05-07 Diskussionsfäden Dirk Geschke
=debug systemd.log_target=console > systemd.journald.forward_to_console=1 > ``` shouldn't there be something like an NFS server in the configuration? E.g. root=nfs::/srv/fai/nfsroot:vers=3 Or how should it find the the NFS server? Best regards Dirk -- +------

FAI-3.2.16 and Broadcom-Ethernet/PXE/DHCP-problem with ipconfig

2009-01-26 Diskussionsfäden Dirk Geschke
ailable? Best regards Dirk -- +------+ | Dr. Dirk Geschke / Plankensteinweg 61/ 85435 Erding| | Telefon: 08122-559448 / Mobil: 0176-96906350 / Fax: 08122-9818106 | | d...@geschke-online.de / d...@lug-erding.de

Re: FAI-3.2.16 and Broadcom-Ethernet/PXE/DHCP-problem with ipconfig

2009-01-26 Diskussionsfäden Dirk Geschke
and DHCP. It seems that it ignores all entries here? BTW: Which initrd is used by PXE boot? Is it the one in the tftp directory or the one from the nfs direcotry? Of course, both are identical... Best regards Dirk PS: The same machine worked with FAI-3.1.x. -- +---

Re: FAI-3.2.16 and Broadcom-Ethernet seems to be known...

2009-01-26 Diskussionsfäden Dirk Geschke
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Re: FAI-3.2.16 and Broadcom-Ethernet/PXE/DHCP-problem with ipconfig

2009-01-26 Diskussionsfäden Dirk Geschke
an do is CTRL-ALT-DEL and reboot. So it seems not to be a kernel problem, I guess. Best regards Dirk -- +------+ | Dr. Dirk Geschke / Plankensteinweg 61/ 85435 Erding| | Telefon: 08122-559448 / Mobil: 0176-9690

Re: FAI-3.2.16 and Broadcom-Ethernet/PXE/DHCP-problem with ipconfig

2009-01-27 Diskussionsfäden Dirk Geschke
his problem, a timeout (I guess this is the -t option) does not work so far, it still stops there. Best regards Dirk -- +----------+ | Dr. Dirk Geschke / Plankensteinweg 61/ 85435 Erding| | Telefon: 08122-559448 / Mo

Re: FAI-3.2.16 and Broadcom-Ethernet/PXE/DHCP-problem with ipconfig

2009-01-27 Diskussionsfäden Dirk Geschke
. Best regards Dirk -- +------+ | Dr. Dirk Geschke / Plankensteinweg 61/ 85435 Erding| | Telefon: 08122-559448 / Mobil: 0176-96906350 / Fax: 08122-9818106 | | d...@geschke-online.de / d...@lug-erding.de / kont...@lug-erding.de | +--+

Re: FAI-3.2.16 and Broadcom-Ethernet/PXE/DHCP-problem with ipconfig

2009-01-27 Diskussionsfäden Dirk Geschke
nd connection refused. But this is a minor problem. Then it fails to mount the mirror, this is ok in the moment, the mirror is not complete and therefore it is not exported at all. So I am happy and optimistic to get FAI running. Again: Many thanks and best regards Dirk -- +---