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<p>Right after dracut successfully mounts the root <span style="font-size: 10pt;">filesystem from the server</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 10pt;">I ge</span><span style="font-size: 10pt;">t an infinite series of</span><span style="font-size: 10pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 10pt;">error </span><span style="font-size: 10pt;">messages related to rpcbind and</span><span style="font-size: 10pt;"> mkdir</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 10pt;">which I'</span><span style="font-size: 10pt;">m unable to </span><span style="font-size: 10pt;">fix:</span></p>
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<p>dracut: Mounted root filesystem 192.168.1.1:/srv/fai/nfsroot<br>
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<p>rpcbind: rpcbind terminating on signal. Restart with "rpcbind -w"<br>
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<p>rpcbind: cannot open file = /run/rpcbind/rpcbind.xdr for writing<br>
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<p>mkdir: cannot create directory '/var/lib/discover': Read-only file system<br>
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<p>Obviously FAI fails completely and I'm unable to install any new node.<br>
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<p>I'm running the latest version of FAI (5.1.2) on a debian 8.5 system.<br>
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<p>I did not have this issue before on the very same system, thus all must<br>
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<p>have started <span style="font-size: 10pt;">after one of the most recent </span><span style="font-size: 10pt;">updat</span><span style="font-size: 10pt;">es of debian OS, which </span><span style="font-size: 10pt;">I</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 10pt;">usually </span><span style="font-size: 10pt;">apply every month or so (FAI packages included)</span><span style="font-size: 10pt;">.</span></p>
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