Resolve optional Mellanox network drivers against the target image's selected kernel. Keep real mlx_en modules, fall back to mlx4_en, include available mlx5_core, and omit missing defaults without changing explicitly requested netdrivers.
Promote bind9 from Recommends to Depends on the xcat and xcatsn metapackages. bind9 is
required by makedns, so it must be a hard dependency regardless of the system's APT
recommendation policy -- xCAT manages the cluster DNS through makedns/named, which
makes a DNS server as essential to a management or a service node as the DHCP backend
already declared beside it ("isc-dhcp-server | kea"). As a Recommends it was installed
only while that policy asked for it: an Ubuntu 26.04 management node came up with no
/usr/sbin/named and makedns failing with "failed to start named".
Strip only a trailing third component when deriving the debootstrap suite in the
Ubuntu netboot genimage. The previous s/\.\d+$// also removed the minor from a
two-part osvers, so an initial release with no point-release ISO -- ubuntu26.04, but
equally an initial-release 18.04/20.04/22.04 -- reached debootstrap as a bare major.
Signed-off-by: Daniel Hilst <392820+dhilst@users.noreply.github.com>
PR #7677 added xCAT-server/share/xcat/netboot/rh/compute.rhels9.ppc64le.pkglist
with a stray empty line at the end of the file. The reviewer asked for it to be
removed before merge, but it slipped through. A trailing blank line in a pkglist
is meaningless and inconsistent with the rest of the netboot package lists, so
remove it.
Signed-off-by: Daniel Hilst <392820+dhilst@users.noreply.github.com>
systemd tooling run inside the image chroot has no bus to talk to and prints
"Failed to connect to bus: No such file or directory". The image builds
correctly, so say so at the end of the run instead of leaving it to be guessed.
Recovered from the unmerged lenovobuild branch (e372fb5b).
Co-authored-by: Jarrod Johnson <10814490+jjohnson42@users.noreply.github.com>
copycds only defines a <osver>-<arch>-netboot-compute osimage when the netboot
compute pkglist/exlist/postinstall for that distro+arch exist under
share/xcat/netboot/<distro>/. For AlmaLinux the ppc64le set was present only for
alma10, so on an el8/el9 ppc64le management node copycds created just the
install-* osimages and no netboot one.
The stateless provisioning test then fails in a confusing way: the case's own
`chdef -t osimage -o <osver>-ppc64le-netboot-compute synclists=...` auto-creates
a bare object, so lsdef reports the image exists (imagetype=NIM and nothing
else), while genimage rejects it with
Error: Cannot find image '<osver>-ppc64le-netboot-compute' from the osimage table.
and packimage plus the install that follows fail with it.
Two gaps are filled:
- share/xcat/netboot/rh/compute.rhels9.ppc64le.pkglist did not exist at all
(rhels8 and rhels10 both ship one). Add it with the same content as the
rhels9 x86_64 list, matching rhels10 where the two arches are identical.
- alma8/alma9 ppc64le compute exlist/pkglist/postinstall are added as symlinks
into the rh/ equivalents, exactly as alma10 ppc64le and rocky10 ppc64le
already do.
With these present, copycds produces a fully populated netboot-compute osimage
(provmethod=netboot, pkglist/exlist/postinstall/rootimgdir set) as it already
does on alma10 ppc64le.
Signed-off-by: Daniel Hilst <392820+dhilst@users.noreply.github.com>
The diskless/statelite xcatroot scripts only recognize an http:// rootfs
image URL; an https:// imgurl falls through to the "unsupported" path even
though the download itself already uses wget/curl on the full $imgurl, both
of which handle TLS.
Accept xhttps alongside xhttp in the protocol test. Applied to every current
xcatroot variant (rh dracut/dracut_033/dracut_047/dracut_105 stateless and
statelite, plus fedora, sles and ubuntu), so HTTPS works uniformly rather
than only on the three rh scripts the original touched.
Recovered from the unmerged lenovobuild branch (original 751bce24, extended
to the dracut generations and distros that postdate it).
Co-authored-by: Jarrod Johnson <10814490+jjohnson42@users.noreply.github.com>
cons/kvm drives the KVM guest serial console through a shared tmux session on
the hypervisor (tmux, unlike screen, is present on every libvirt host we target
incl. ppc64le hosts that ship no screen). The KVM host package lists were never
updated for that switch, so an xCAT-provisioned KVM host got 'screen' (now
unused) -- or nothing -- where tmux is required, leaving rcons broken.
Ship tmux in the KVM host pkglists:
- install/rh, install/ubuntu: screen -> tmux / add tmux.
- netboot/{alma,centos,rocky}: were symlinks to the RHEL 5.4 list; make them
real lists with tmux (the rhel5/6/7 lists keep screen).
- install/suse: add a KVM host list (SUSE had none) carrying tmux.
screen stays where it is still used: the Xen console, and the EOL rhel5/6/7 and
centos6/7 lists.
Signed-off-by: Daniel Hilst <392820+dhilst@users.noreply.github.com>
The Ubuntu netboot image inherited the build host's /etc/hostname --
genimage's chroot shares the build host's UTS namespace, so /etc/hostname
ended up as the MN's name and every diskless node booted as that name
instead of its own ("hostname poisoning"). xCAT keys on IP/MAC so
provisioning still succeeds, but the node's local identity (hostname,
prompt, syslog) is wrong and N nodes share one name. The image also
shipped no netplan, so systemd-networkd-wait-online failed. In
compute.postinstall, clear /etc/hostname so each node takes its name at
boot from DHCP (udhcpc option host-name) / xCAT, and drop in a DHCP
netplan (optional, dhcp-identifier mac) so systemd-networkd configures the
boot NIC. Ubuntu-only.
Signed-off-by: Daniel Hilst <392820+dhilst@users.noreply.github.com>
The Ubuntu live-server ISO copycds imports is not a complete apt pool, so
both Ubuntu install paths fail without an external mirror: the netboot
genimage's debootstrap from the ISO-only pkgdir cannot resolve packages,
and the Subiquity diskful install (Template.pm) fell back to the airgapped
file:///cdrom config. Default site.ubuntu_apt_mirror to
http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu when unset (overridable for local/geo/
ports mirrors). In the Ubuntu genimage, when pkgdir has no http mirror,
build the debootstrap source and chroot sources.list from that mirror with
the codename derived from osvers and the release/-updates/-security pockets
(main + universe) -- the compute pkglist needs universe (busybox-static,
dracut*) and the security-updated openssh. Ubuntu-only; EL netboot
(netboot/rh) and copycds/packimage are untouched.
Signed-off-by: Daniel Hilst <392820+dhilst@users.noreply.github.com>
Update all alma10, ol10, and rocky10 netboot symlinks to reference
the new rhels10 base files. Fixes service otherpkgs pointing to
wrong xcat-dep path (rh9 instead of rh10).
Create proper rhels10 versions of exlist, postinstall, service
pkglist, and service otherpkgs files instead of reusing rhels9.
Key differences from rhels9:
- service otherpkgs: xcat-dep path rh9 -> rh10
- service pkglist: drop dhclient (NetworkManager handles DHCP)
Compute exlist and postinstall are identical to rhels9 for now but
kept separate to allow EL10-specific changes without affecting EL9.
Add compute and service profile symlinks for alma10, following the
existing pattern used by alma8 and alma9. Also add the missing
dracut_105 symlink required by EL10's dracut v107.
Tested with BIOS and UEFI stateless provisioning on AlmaLinux 10.1.
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