softupdate can't find config space

[John G Heim]

Sorry to respond to my own email. But after I pressed send, it occured 
to  me that I should have included info on my FAI version. But that made 
me think of trying the version of FAI from the FAI repository -- which I 
did and which does not have the problem I mentioned below. In other 
words problem solved by upgrading the the fai repository packages.


On 08/31/2015 11:50 AM, John G Heim wrote:
> I'm having problems with fai softupdate after an upgrade from debian
> wheezy to ubuntu vivid. The config space is available at the same url as
> always. The fai softupdate command is the same as always. But when I run
> the fai command, it says it can't find the config space in fstab. I can
> mount the config space via a mount command, 'mount -t nfs
> faiserver:/src/fai/config/ /var/lib/fai/config/' -- that works.
>
> Something must have changed about the way you specify the url to mount
> the config space. Yet the fai man page does not indicate as much.
>
> --- begin quote ---
> # fai --verbose --class=HOURLY softupdate
>               -------------------------------------------------
>                     Fully Automatic Installation  -  FAI
>
>                     FAI 3.4.8ubuntu5, 06 Nov 2013   (c) 1999-2010
>                 Thomas Lange  <lange at informatik.uni-koeln.de>
>               -------------------------------------------------
> Starting FAI execution - 20150831_114052
>
> Using configuration files from /etc/fai
> Calling task_confdir
> FAI_FLAGS:
> No monitor daemon defined.
> FAI_CONFIG_SRC is set to nfs://faiserver/srv/fai/config/
> mount: can't find faiserver:/srv/fai/config/ in /etc/fstab
> Error in task confdir. Traceback: task_error main
> FATAL ERROR. Installation stopped.
> WARNING: directory /class not found.
> Problems accessing the config space.
>
>

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John Heim, jheim at math.wisc.edu, skype:john.g.heim