[PL #7489] FC3 or FC4 support for pl_box?

Thierry Parmentelat via RT devel at planet-lab.org
Thu Sep 22 07:02:42 EDT 2005 

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Gang
Running pl_box on a FC4 is one thing, that looks reasonably easy to do even 
though you seem to be the first to give it a try
But upgrading the whole node-side software to FC4 is quite another story, 
and as far as I understood it implies a very deep understanding of all 
planetlab components and of the way they are integrated.
That being said, I agree it would be a very nice feature for the support of 
recent hardware

thierry

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "gang.ding at intel.com via RT" <devel at planet-lab.org>
To: <winson.c.chan at intel.com>
Sent: Thursday, September 22, 2005 5:33 AM
Subject: RE: [PL #7489] FC3 or FC4 support for pl_box?


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> I am working on the second option right now. Two things I am aware are
> that 1) During bootmanager section, a local yum.conf is generated and is
> using the boot.planet-lab.org too. So I need to update this yum.conf in
> addition to the 'PACKET_SOURCE' in config.
> 2) All the nodes to this PLC will have to use FC4 too. I do not know if
> there will be any problem then.
>
> I have another easy question. I know some of you have already built a
> PLC with nodes. I've also built a PLC on FC2 and have the boot CD ready.
> Can anybody give me a brief outline of how to build a node? Do I need to
> run 'plcmdline' or 'psql planetlab3 pgsqluser' to add new site or node?
> I tried to login to the PLC website as root, but clicking 'PI' or
> 'Admin' button simply gives me a blank page.
>
> Thanks,
> Gang
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Aaron Klingaman via RT [mailto:devel at planet-lab.org]
> Sent: Wednesday, September 21, 2005 10:16 AM
> To: Chan, Winson C
> Subject: Re: [PL #7489] FC3 or FC4 support for pl_box?
>
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>
> Eh. Downgrading python is a bad road to go down, trust me. :) I wonder
> if you could have two versions of python installed concurrently? And
> have the older yum use the older version (probably can't have two
> versions of yum installed, however).
>
> Another option is to replicate our boot server package repositories,
> then update them to use the new repository format. The
> pl_box/configuration file specifies what server to pull the packages off
>
> of, it could be changed to your new server with the newer repository
> format. Actually, setting up a local repository server has been used
> before by others because rerunning the pl_box script from scratch is
> significantly faster (no need to pull all the packages from
> boot.planet-lab.org with a rate limit in place).
>
> ak
>
> gang.ding at intel.com via RT wrote:
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>> Hi Aaron,
>>
>> I removed yum (2.3) from FC4 and installed an old version (2.0.7) that
>> is the same as that in FC2. And I started again from a clean FC4, but
> I
>> got error due to Python (see below). I guess Python 2.4.1 in FC4 is
>> quite different from Python 2.3.3 in FC2. I cannot easily uninstall
>> Python because many packages depend on it. Any suggestions?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Gang
>>
>>
>>
>> --- Section rpms
>> date=Tue Sep 20 18:36:24 PDT 2005
>> Making sure RPMs are installed
>>
>> Unable to find pid
>> Gathering header information file(s) from server(s)
>> Server: Fedora Core 4 - i386 - Base
>> Traceback (most recent call last):
>>   File "/usr/bin/yum", line 30, in ?
>>     yummain.main(sys.argv[1:])
>>   File "/usr/share/yum/yummain.py", line 233, in main
>>     clientStuff.get_package_info_from_servers(serverlist, HeaderInfo)
>>   File "/usr/share/yum/clientStuff.py", line 846, in
>> get_package_info_from_serve rs
>>     progress_obj=None)
>>   File "/usr/share/yum/clientStuff.py", line 1327, in grab
>>     bandwidth, conf.retries, retrycodes, checkfunc)
>>   File "/usr/share/yum/urlgrabber.py", line 237, in retrygrab
>>     progress_obj, throttle, bandwidth)
>>   File "/usr/share/yum/urlgrabber.py", line 314, in urlgrab
>>     fo = urllib2.urlopen(url)
>>   File "/usr/lib/python2.4/urllib2.py", line 130, in urlopen
>>     return _opener.open(url, data)
>>   File "/usr/lib/python2.4/urllib2.py", line 364, in open
>>     response = meth(req, response)
>>   File "/usr/lib/python2.4/urllib2.py", line 468, in http_response
>>     code, msg, hdrs = response.code, response.msg, response.info()
>> AttributeError: HTTPResponse instance has no attribute 'code'
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Aaron Klingaman via RT [mailto:devel at planet-lab.org]
>> Sent: Tuesday, September 20, 2005 3:02 PM
>> To: Chan, Winson C
>> Subject: Re: [PL #7489] FC3 or FC4 support for pl_box?
>>
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>>
>> ==================================================
>>
>> Oh, it just occurred to me what was probably happening. What version
> of
>> yum is FC4 using? (rpm -qi yum). I bet its a significantly newer
> version
>>
>> that is expecting the rpm repositories on our boot server in a
> different
>>
>> format. You might try uninstalling yum and reinstalling the FC2 yum,
> and
>>
>> trying again.
>>
>> Aaron
>>
>> gang.ding at intel.com via RT wrote:
>>
>>>Email Recipients (see http://www.planet-lab.org/Support)
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>>>
>>>==================================================
>>>
>>>I checked it out this morning (9/20). I actually also installed pl_box
>>>on a clean FC2 on 9/15 and it worked fine.
>>>
>>>The requested file is in:
>>>http://boot.planet-lab.org/install-rpms/updates-fc2/repodata/
>>>which is actually empty. Seems like the directory is specific to FC2.
>>>
>>>
>>>Gang
>>>
>>>
>>>-----Original Message-----
>>>From: Aaron Klingaman via RT [mailto:devel at planet-lab.org]
>>>Sent: Tuesday, September 20, 2005 2:44 PM
>>>To: Chan, Winson C
>>>Subject: Re: [PL #7489] FC3 or FC4 support for pl_box?
>>>
>>>Email Recipients (see http://www.planet-lab.org/Support)
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>>>       Requestor: winson.c.chan at intel.com
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>>>
>>>==================================================
>>>
>>>Hi, Gang. When did you check out the pl_box code that was run below?
>>>Recently I fixed a problem that occured during the BootManager build
>>>process. It was checked in on 9/14.
>>>
>>>Aaron
>>>
>>>gang.ding at intel.com via RT wrote:
>>>
>>>
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>>>>==================================================
>>>>
>>>>My name is Gang. I am working with Winson. We started from a clean
> FC4
>>>>and got an error below after about half an hour. The file requested
>>>>actually does not exist. Any suggestions?
>>>>
>>>>Thanks,
>>>>Gang
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>-----------------------------------
>>>>Completed building PartDisks
>>>>./buildnode.sh
>>>>Setting up Install Process
>>>>Setting up repositories
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
> http://boot.planet-lab.org/install-rpms/updates-fc2/repodata/repomd.xml:
>>
>>>>[Errno 4] IOError: HTTP Error 404: Date: Tue, 20 Sep 2005 18:41:39
> GMT
>>>>Server: Apache/2.0.51 (Fedora)
>>>>Content-Length: 375
>>>>Connection: close
>>>>Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1
>>>>Trying other mirror.
>>>>Cannot open/read repomd.xml file for repository: FedoraCore2Updates
>>>>failure: repodata/repomd.xml from FedoraCore2Updates: [Errno 256] No
>>>>more mirrors to try.
>>>>make: *** [PlanetLab-Bootstrap.tar.bz2] Error 255
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>-----Original Message-----
>>>>From: Chan, Winson C via RT [mailto:devel at planet-lab.org]
>>>>Sent: Friday, September 16, 2005 2:31 PM
>>>>Subject: [PL #7489] FC3 or FC4 support for pl_box?
>>>>
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>>>>
>>>>==================================================
>>>>
>>>>Fri Sep 16 17:30:36 2005: Request 7489 was acted upon.
>>>>Transaction: Ticket created by winson.c.chan at intel.com
>>>>
>>>>Subject: FC3 or FC4 support for pl_box?
>>>>
>>>>Development Support @ PlanetLab,
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>Can we run pl_box on FC3 or FC4?  We are discovering that FC2 lacks
>>>>support for our new hardware.  If not, any plan or schedule to move
> to
>>>
>>>a
>>>
>>>
>>>>newer core soon?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>Thanks.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>Winson Chan
>>>>
>>>>Infrastructure Management Services
>>>>
>>>>(916) 356-6473
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
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