Ubuntu hardy (8.04) problems

[Andreas Sindermann]

Hi,

I'm currently doing some experiments with fai (3.2.1) on 
Ubuntu hardy (8.04) Alpha 4.

a) A minor issue: It seems that Ubuntu feisty is still referred to
   in some files:

/etc/fai/make-fai/nfsroot.conf:
FAI_DEBOOTSTRAP="hardy http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu"


/etc/fai/apt/sources.list:
deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu hardy main restricted universe multiverse

The line referring to ppa.launchpad.net needs to be commented out as 
live-initramfs seems to be part of hardy already.


b) But then a major problem arises to which I don't have any idea at all:
   The client is booting successfully the kernel but when trying to mount
   the config space it comes to a number of errors and the installation
   process end in a shell prompt:

[...]
Calling task_confdir
Kernel parameters: initd=initrd.img-2.6.24-5-generic ip=dhcp root=/dev/nfs nfsroot=/srv/fai/hardy-nfsroot boot=live FAI_FLAGS=verbose,sshd,createvt FAI_ACTION=install BOOT_IMAGE=vmlinuz-2.6.24-5-generic
Reading /var/log/fai/current/boot.log
/usr/lib/fai/subroutines-linux: line 68: /etc/syslog.conf: Permission denied
  syslogd: /var/log/auth.log: Permission denied
  syslogd: /var/log/syslog: Permission denied
  syslogd: /var/log/daemon.log: Permission denied
  syslogd: /var/log/kern.log: Permission denied
  syslogd: /var/log/lpr.log: Permission denied
  syslogd: /var/log/mail.log: Permission denied
  syslogd: /var/log/user.log: Permission denied
  syslogd: /var/log/mail.info: Permission denied
  syslogd: /var/log/mail.warn: Permission denied
  syslogd: /var/log/mail.err: Permission denied
  syslogd: /var/log/debug: Permission denied
  syslogd: /var/log/messages: Permission denied
  syslogd: /dev/xconsole: No such file or directory
/usr/lib/fai/create_resolv_conf: 18: cannot create /etc/resolv.conf: Permission denied
/usr/lib/fai/create_resolv_conf: 18: cannot create /etc/resolv.conf: Permission denied
FAI_FLAGS: verbose sshd createvt
mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on l62:/srv/fai/config,
       missing codepage or helper program, or other error
       (for several filesystems (e.g. nfs, clifs) you might
       need a /sbin/mount.<type> helper program)
       In some cases useful info is found in syslog - try
       dmesg | tail or so

WARNING: directory /var/lib/gai/config/class not found.
Problems accessing the config space.
Save log files via rsh to fai at ls1.thp.uni-koeln.de:l57/install-
rcp: /var/log/fai/current/logfifo: not a plain file

bash: no job control in this shell
root at l57:/#


When trying to mount something by hand (the hardy repository for example)
again the mount error message like above appears:

root at l57:/# mount ls1:/opt/ubuntu /mnt
mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on l62:/srv/fai/config,
       missing codepage or helper program, or other error
       (for several filesystems (e.g. nfs, clifs) you might
       need a /sbin/mount.<type> helper program)
       In some cases useful info is found in syslog - try
       dmesg | tail or so
root at l57:/#

Any idea what is (not) happening?

Andreas