[Lustre-discuss] Problems with clean install

[Andreas Dilger]

On 2010-06-07, at 20:21, Lance Westerhoff wrote:
> eth0: (PCI Express:2.5GB/s:Width x1) 00:30:48:65:cb:a8
> eth0: Intel(R) PRO/1000 Network Connection
> eth0: MAC: 2, PHY: 2, PBA No: ffffff-0ff
> eth1: (PCI Express:2.5GB/s:Width x1) 00:30:48:65:cb:a9
> eth1: Intel(R) PRO/1000 Network Connection
> eth1: MAC: 2, PHY: 2, PBA No: ffffff-0ff
> Lustre: OBD class driver, http://www.lustre.org/
> Lustre:     Lustre Version: 1.8.2
> Lustre:     Build Version: 1.8.2-20100122190848-PRISTINE-2.6.18-164.11.1.el5_lustre.1.8.2
> LustreError: 1986:0:(socklnd.c:2527:ksocknal_enumerate_interfaces()) Can't enumerate interfaces: 0
> LustreError: 105-4: Error -100 starting up LNI tcp
> LustreError: 1986:0:(events.c:729:ptlrpc_init_portals()) network initialisation failed

According to errno.h, 100 is ENETDOWN.  It's hard to say from your dmesg (which doesn't have timestamps) but I suspect you are mounting this at boot time and the eth0 interface just isn't set up yet.

There were a thread recently about using the _netdev mount option (which works on some distros), or to use an rc script to mount after the network setup has completed.

Cheers, Andreas
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Andreas Dilger
Lustre Technical Lead
Oracle Corporation Canada Inc.