i'm having a few problems with setting up stateless linux for the
rsync-based cached instantiation model
first of all, i couldn't get the post install script in the kickstart
file to work. and i'm not sure why because i could not see any output
from that script but i know that when the system would reboot, the
stateless-client package would not be installed
so i wrote my own post install ks script using bash so that it installs
the stateless-client package - i also added some commands to populate
the variables in the /etc/sysconfig/stateless file because after the
package install, those values were set to default
i'm pretty sure that this is not the way this is supposed to work,
probably i missed something but nevertheless i got myself this far
now my problem is getting the client to replicate the snapshop
the original code in the post-install script was
### Now launch the real bootstrap
sys.path.append ('/mnt/sysimage/usr/share/stateless/')
import bootstrap
bootstrap.run('aware-of-vacuity.boston.redhat.com', 'Test42')
i don't know python and i don't really understand how this is 'supposed'
to work
i am trying to replicate the snapshot manually by running "python
replicator.py update" but i am now getting errors about not being able
to determine which root partition is in reserve
[root@store-lan1-100 stateless]# python replicator.py update
/sbin/e2label: Attempt to read block from filesystem resulted in short
read while trying to open /dev/hda4
Couldn't find valid filesystem superblock.
/sbin/e2label: No such file or directory while trying to open /dev/hda6
Couldn't find valid filesystem superblock.
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "replicator.py", line 767, in ?
update_client_on_cronjob_or_manual()
File "replicator.py", line 737, in update_client_on_cronjob_or_manual
repl = LiveReplicatorBackgroundUpdate()
File "replicator.py", line 675, in __init__
Replicator.__init__ (self, ldap_dir, False)
File "replicator.py", line 583, in __init__
self.root = Replicator.ClientPartitionRole(ROLE_ROOT,
self.temp_dir_name, self)
File "replicator.py", line 387, in __init__
self.locate_partitions()
File "replicator.py", line 405, in locate_partitions
raise PartitionError, "Could not determine which %s is in
reserve"%self.get_name()
__main__.PartitionError: Could not determine which root partition is in
reserve
i'm using FC3 release version
my partition layout is as per the example
[root@store-lan1-100 stateless]# df -m
Filesystem 1M-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/hda2 3027 632 2242 22% /
/dev/hda1 99 9 86 9% /boot
none 252 0 252 0% /dev/shm
/dev/hda5 99 6 89 6% /reserve-boot
/dev/hda3 3027 37 2837 2% /reserve-root
[root@store-lan1-100 stateless]# cat /etc/fstab
# This file is edited by fstab-sync - see 'man fstab-sync' for details
LABEL=/ / ext3 defaults
1 1
LABEL=/boot /boot ext3 defaults
1 2
none /dev/pts devpts gid=5,mode=620
0 0
none /dev/shm tmpfs defaults
0 0
none /proc proc defaults
0 0
LABEL=/reserve-boot /reserve-boot ext3 defaults
1 2
LABEL=/reserve-root /reserve-root ext3 defaults
1 2
none /sys sysfs defaults
0 0
any guidance here would be appreciated,
Peter Schobel
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