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RE: 3 machines in macgregor need re-installs [help.mit.edu #1408773]
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Stuart Peloquin)
Mon Jan 3 16:43:51 2011
From: Stuart Peloquin <peloquin@MIT.EDU>
To: Jonathon Weiss <jweiss@mit.edu>, Jonathan D Reed <jdreed@mit.edu>
CC: Jonathon Weiss <jweiss@mit.edu>,
"release-team@mit.edu"
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Date: Mon, 3 Jan 2011 16:43:42 -0500
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Hi all,
There was a problem with DHCP in the building that the network team identified and reported as fixed late in December. I haven't had the opportunity to visit W61 to test PXE and reinstall any machines nor have the RCCs. Will make it a priority as student consultants return to campus.
-Stuart
-----Original Message-----
From: Jonathon Weiss [mailto:jweiss@MIT.EDU]
Sent: Monday, January 03, 2011 3:51 PM
To: Jonathan D Reed
Cc: Jonathon Weiss; Stuart Peloquin; release-team@mit.edu
Subject: Re: 3 machines in macgregor need re-installs [help.mit.edu #1408773]
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
>
