[Lustre-discuss] Problems with clean install

[Lance Westerhoff]

Hi Andreas-

Ah-ha...ok, so unlike in the case of NFS, /etc/fstab is not the suggested method to get these things to mount on boot. Do you have a standard rc script that we can include, or is it up to us to roll our own?

-Lance


On Jun 8, 2010, at 2:50 AM, Andreas Dilger wrote:

> 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
> --
> Andreas Dilger
> Lustre Technical Lead
> Oracle Corporation Canada Inc.
>