[7211] in Release_7.7_team
Re: 3 machines in macgregor need re-installs [help.mit.edu #1408773]
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jonathon Weiss)
Mon Jan 3 15:50:51 2011
Message-Id: <201101032050.p03KoiGL016183@outgoing.mit.edu>
To: Jonathan Reed <jdreed@mit.edu>
cc: Jonathon Weiss <jweiss@mit.edu>, peloquin@mit.edu, release-team@mit.edu
In-Reply-To: Message from Jonathan Reed <jdreed@MIT.EDU>
of "Mon, 06 Dec 2010 15:58:20 EST." <17F2ED69-58D3-4B07-B0C6-D5C68865F8C0@mit.edu>
Date: Mon, 03 Jan 2011 15:50:44 -0500
From: Jonathon Weiss <jweiss@MIT.EDU>
Any progress on this?
Jonathon
Jonathan Reed <jdreed@MIT.EDU> wrote:
> After chatting with Stuart, we've determined there are some network =
> problems in MacGregor preventing the PXE installer from working. Stuart =
> is going to follow up with the RCCs to get some more debugging =
> information and then we'll escalate to NIST.
>
> -Jon
>
> On Dec 6, 2010, at 11:50 AM, Jonathon Weiss wrote:
>
> >=20
> > Thomas,
> >=20
> > Unfortunately, running the previous version of ubuntu can no longer be
> > considered "running fine" as it has been desupported by the vendor, =
> and
> > all cluster workstations should have automatically updated to the
> > current version. That said, I believe we are waiting from someone on
> > release-team to investigate the issue of why you are unable to
> > re-install these machines, and there isn't anything to be done until
> > that happens.
> >=20
> > Thanks for keeping this issue active,
> >=20
> > Jonathon
> >=20
> > Jonathon Weiss <jweiss@mit.edu>
> > MIT/IS&T/OIS Server Operations
> >=20
> >=20
> >> Hi Jonatahon,
> >>=20
> >> Here is the lateast.
> >> There are two machines;MacGregor-5 and MacGregor-Quickstation that =
> are running fine with the previous Athena version of ubuntu.
> >> The MacGregor-2 is still getting the error message I mentioned =
> earlier.
> >>=20
> >> Best,
> >> Thomas
> >> Thomas J. Smith
> >> IT Deployment & Maintenance Services
> >> Installation/Spaces/Athena Clusters/IT DMS (acis-team@mit.edu)
> >> Massachusetts Institute of Technology
> >> Tel: 617-253-7433
> >> Email: tjsmith@mit.edu
> >>=20
> >>=20
> >>=20
> >>=20
> >>=20
> >> On Mon Nov 22 15:36:55 2010, tjsmith wrote:
> >>> Hi Jonathon,
> >>>=20
> >>> We tried all three machines.
> >>>=20
> >>> When using the reinstall cd we have we got the following error
> >>> message.
> >>>=20
> >>> Loading gpxe.krn....ready
> >>>=20
> >>>=20
> >>> Without the reinstall cd,and choosing the onboard network devices we
> >>> got this.
> >>>=20
> >>> PXE-MOF:Exiting broadcom PXE ROM
> >>>=20
> >>> Best,
> >>> Thomas J. Smith
> >>> IT Deployment & Maintenance Services
> >>> Installation/Spaces/Athena Clusters/IT DMS (acis-team@mit.edu)
> >>> Massachusetts Institute of Technology
> >>> Tel: 617-253-7433
> >>> Email: tjsmith@mit.edu
> >>>=20
> >>>=20
> >>>=20
> >>>=20
> >>>=20
> >>>=20
> >>> On Fri Nov 19 16:05:05 2010, jweiss wrote:
> >>>>=20
> >>>> Please re-install the following 3 machines in macgregor. I know
> >>> there
> >>>> have been problems with installs here in the past. If there are
> >>> still
> >>>> please send a detailed copy of the errors (including a photo of the
> >>>> screen if helpful) to release-team. Please note that these =
> machines
> >>>> do need re-installs, even if they currently look like they're
> >>> working.
> >>>>=20
> >>>> macgregor-2
> >>>> macgregor-5
> >>>> quickstation-macgregor
> >>>>=20
> >>>>=20
> >>>> Jonathon
> >>>=20
> >>>=20
> >>=20
> >>=20
> >>=20
>
