make-fai-nfsroot problems

Andrew Monteiro Andrew.Monteiro at OpeNeT.com.au
Fri Jan 30 07:51:49 CET 2004


Thanks to Jacob and Keith for pointing out the missing binutils package. It looks like I've still got a problem though.

Setting up libnet-perl (1.09.01-1) ...

cp: cannot stat `/home/fai/.ssh/*.pub': No such file or directory
Removing `diversion of /sbin/discover to /sbin/discover.distrib by fai'

-----Original Message-----
From: Jacob Weismann Poulsen [mailto:jwp at dmi.dk]
Sent: Friday, 30 January 2004 02:12
To: Andrew Monteiro
Cc: linux-fai at uni-koeln.de
Subject: Re: make-fai-nfsroot problem


* Andrew Monteiro <Andrew.Monteiro at OpeNeT.com.au> [2004-01-29 19:04]:
> Has anyone experienced a problem with the make-fai-nfsroot process like this?
> 
> When I issue the command make-fai-nfsroot it appears to start building the nfsroot tree then dies. See below:

it could be a disk full problem. Is it ???

Regards,

Jacob
> 
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> Creating FAI nfsroot can take a long time and will
> need more than 160MB disk space in /usr/lib/fai/nfsroot.
> /usr/lib/fai/nfsroot already exists. Removing /usr/lib/fai/nfsroot
> Creating nfsroot for woody using debootstrap
> Calling debootstrap woody /usr/lib/fai/nfsroot http://fai01.openet.internal/debian
> I: Retrieving http://fai01.openet.internal/debian/dists/woody/Release
> I: Validating /usr/lib/fai/nfsroot/var/lib/apt/lists/debootstrap.invalid_dists_woody_Release
> I: Retrieving http://fai01.openet.internal/debian/dists/woody/main/binary-i386/Packages.gz
> 
> <snip - various packages listed>
> 
> I: Validating /usr/lib/fai/nfsroot/var/cache/apt/archives/whiptail_0.50.17-9.6_i386.deb
> I: Extracting /var/cache/apt/archives/base-files_3.0.2_i386.deb...
> /usr/sbin/debootstrap: ar: command not found
> 
> zcat: stdin: unexpected end of file
> I: Extracting /var/cache/apt/archives/base-passwd_3.4.1_i386.deb...
> /usr/sbin/debootstrap: ar: command not found
> 
> zcat: stdin: unexpected end of file
> 
> <snip - repeated sequence>
> 
> zcat: stdin: unexpected end of file
> chroot: cannot execute mount: No such file or directory
> W: Failure trying to run: chroot /usr/lib/fai/nfsroot mount -t proc proc /proc
> umount: /usr/lib/fai/nfsroot/proc: not found
> chroot: cannot execute apt-get: No such file or directory
> chroot: cannot execute dpkg-divert: No such file or directory
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> Other details:
> FAI version 2.5.2
> Local mirror from which I have built several systems.
> Minimal install of Debian stable with security updates (bf2.4 install) and just the required packages for fai as listed in the doco.
> 
> Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
> 
> Andrew.
> 
> 


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