fai team mailing list archive

[andrew bezella <abezella@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Public bug reported:

i've been starting down the migration path from one lts release to
another and trying out vm installs using fai 3.4.8ubuntu2 on precise
hosts.  the vms (ganeti-managed) are built using fai dirinstall.

it appears that upstart in precise behaves differently than lucid with respect to chroots (looks like it started supporting chroot "sessions" in natty).  in my testing this caused problems with both lucid and
precise guests.  when performing a lucid dirinstall i ended up w/atd and acpid processes running outside the chroot.  with a precise dirinstall init complained that it had had its "Configuration directory deleted" (referencing the path to the chroot) and was left in a somewhat confused state, logging errs like:
init: Failed to spawn network-interface (tap0) pre-start process: unable to execute: No such file or directory
on vm bring-up. 

my workaround for this was to add a hook to updatebase containing: 
fai-divert -a /sbin/initctl

should /sbin/initctl be added to the list of automatic diversions in
updatebase?

thank you.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04
Package: fai-client 3.4.8ubuntu2
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-25.40-generic 3.2.18
Uname: Linux 3.2.0-25-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.0.1-0ubuntu8
Architecture: amd64
Date: Thu Jul  5 15:36:35 2012
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcEnviron:
 TERM=xterm
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=en_US.utf8
 SHELL=/usr/bin/zsh
SourcePackage: fai
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
modified.conffile..etc.fai.fai.conf: [modified]
mtime.conffile..etc.fai.fai.conf: 2012-06-19T10:48:39.830062

** Affects: fai (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New


** Tags: amd64 apport-bug precise

-- 
You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu
FAI Developers, which is subscribed to fai in Ubuntu.
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1021506

Title:
  dirinstall on 12.04 appears to require `fai-divert -a /sbin/initctl`

To manage notifications about this bug go to:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/fai/+bug/1021506/+subscriptions