wheezy fai sysinfo reboots without reboot flag

Katarzyna Myrek oliviakrk at gmail.com
Tue Aug 14 09:08:49 CEST 2012


Hi
How  about creating simple bash script which would wait for user input??

Regards,
Olivia

2012/8/14 Brian Kroth <bpkroth at gmail.com>

> Brian Paul Kroth <bpkroth at gmail.com> 2012-08-13 15:25:
>
>  Thomas Neumann <blacky+fai at fluffbunny.de> 2012-08-13 21:33:
>>
>>> On Mon, 13 Aug 2012 12:14:19 -0500
>>> Brian Kroth <bpkroth at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi all, I'm testing fai+wheezy (4.0.3) and have a client setup to
>>>> pxeboot to a
>>>> sysinfo without the reboot flag[...]
>>>>
>>>
>>> Check the list for an earlier message of mine. I've run into the same
>>> problem.
>>>
>>> If no error occurs, then fai _will_ reboot the system. You can tell fai
>>> to halt instead, but you can't simply make it stop and do nothing. Reboot
>>> or Halt.
>>>
>>> Solution:
>>> a) provoke an error somewhere during execution
>>> b) use my attached patch to force a non-reboot
>>>
>>> bye
>>> thomas
>>>
>>
>> I thought I remembered seeing something similar in the past, but couldn't
>> find it at the time.
>>
>> Here it is for future hunters:
>> https://lists.uni-koeln.de/**pipermail/linux-fai/2012-July/**009735.html<https://lists.uni-koeln.de/pipermail/linux-fai/2012-July/009735.html>
>>
>> I should have mentioned earlier that after reading the code I was
>> starting to use option (a) above (there's almost always something that
>> complains during a real install, but I guess not during sysinfo), but I
>> think I'll use your hook instead.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Brian
>>
>
> That hook actually never gets called when using FAI_ACTION=sysinfo since
> task_action()'s sysinfo case calls task_faiend() rather than "task faiend"
> (call_hook is done in task(), not task_faiend()).
>
> So, I guess it's back to figuring out how to induce a non-fatal error ...
>
> Thanks,
> Brian
>
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