[Planetlab-users] Nodes Wedged?

Wed Aug 1 10:41:41 EDT 2007

Just an update - I removed all the nodes again, and re-added. Seems to
be working now - atleast some.

Thanx and regards
Arijit 

>-----Original Message-----
>From: users-bounces at planet-lab.org 
>[mailto:users-bounces at planet-lab.org] On Behalf Of Arijit Mukherjee
>Sent: 01 August 2007 14:39
>To: Bryant, Jason R Ctr AFRL/IFSB; users at planet-lab.org
>Subject: RE: [Planetlab-users] Nodes Wedged?
>
>Almost a similar situation here. My nodes were being erratic, 
>I removed them and added 72 new nodes (after checking with 
>CoMon for lightly loaded, no problems list) - and since the 
>past two and half weeks, I'm getting "access denied". PL 
>Support said that there's some problem with the node manager 
>and they have a fix which they are going to deploy soon. Not 
>sure if that's done or not.
>
>But after seeing your email, I added a new node - and within 
>10 minutes I was able to access that. But the same "access 
>denied" for the other 72, which is extremely weird.
>
>Regards
>Arijit 
>
>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: users-bounces at planet-lab.org
>>[mailto:users-bounces at planet-lab.org] On Behalf Of Bryant, 
>Jason R Ctr 
>>AFRL/IFSB
>>Sent: 31 July 2007 19:44
>>To: users at planet-lab.org
>>Subject: [Planetlab-users] Nodes Wedged?
>>
>>Working with the cornell nodes on planetlab I have had 
>several start to 
>>refuse access to me for the last several months.
>>Planetlab2.cs.cornell.edu, planetlab3-dsl.cs.cornell.edu, and 
>>planetlab5.cs.cornell.edu allow me to start the login 
>process, but then 
>>either give an "Device or Resource busy" error, or an "Remote host 
>>closed connection" error.  The cornell admin suggested removing and 
>>then adding the nodes to my slice again, so that the user 
>list would be 
>>in sync, and to try again several hours later.  I tried this but the 
>>same errors continue.
>>
>>The Cornell admin's other suggestion was to contact planetlab admins 
>>(who have root privileges) and have them check to see if the nodes are
>>wedged.   Could someone from planetlab please respond to this 
>e-mail so
>>that I can discover what the issues are?  
>>
>>3 of the cornell nodes are responsive, 2 have been giving connection 
>>errors for over a month, and another just went similarly 
>unresponsive a 
>>few weeks ago.
>>
>>Thanks planetlab,
>>-Jason
>>
>>
>>
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>>Date: Tue, 31 Jul 2007 16:31:19 +1000
>>From: "Ganesh Arunachalam" <ganesh.arunachalam at gmail.com>
>>Subject: [Planetlab-users] Creating a planet-lab boot cd with custom
>>	software	packages
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>>Hi there,
>>
>>We at University of Melbourne, are currently working on an internal 
>>project that uses planet lab for executing applications on a slice.
>>We have a private planet lab installed in our university. 
>>There are certain custom packages(developed in our university) that 
>>need to be a part of the planet lab boot cd so that all nodes have 
>>those packages installed.
>>Also,
>>any updates to the boot cd(software packages) should lead to 
>updates in 
>>the nodes when they boot up.The planet lab documentation says that we 
>>need to modify the yum.conf and yumgroups.xml files present in the 
>>bootcd_v3 to include custom packages, But I am not able to find those 
>>files in the
>>bootcd_v3 folder. Is there anything I am missing here? Please 
>guide me 
>>in this problem.
>>
>>Thanks,
>>Ganesh
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>>Date: Tue, 31 Jul 2007 15:47:51 +0200
>>From: "Manuel J. Fr?h" <fm2xs at gmx.net>
>>Subject: [Planetlab-users] Can't copy files to PL node --> read-only
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>>Hi everyone,
>>
>>I have set up a slice with some nodes and everything was working fine 
>>until yesterday. Since then I haven't been able to copy files 
>to one of 
>>them any more. The error message states that the node has a read-only 
>>file system.
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>>Has anyone had similar problems and knows how to solve this?
>>
>>Thanks for your help,
>>Manuel
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