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>
(cherry picked from commit 8bb0606120)
go-xcat's install list still named yaboot-xcat, which was obsoleted in the
xcat-dep 2.18 rebuild and is no longer published. It also lists the cross-arch
ppc64 genesis packages, which the arch-split 2.18 dep repo no longer places in
the x86_64 view an x86 management node reads. Because EL dnf is strict by
default, any one of these unresolvable names aborts the entire `dnf install`
transaction, so `go-xcat install` fails outright on EL9/EL10 even though every
package the node actually needs is available.
Drop yaboot-xcat from the install list (kept in the uninstall list so existing
installs are still cleaned up) and pass `dnf --setopt=strict=0` so a package
missing from the enabled repository is warned and skipped instead of failing
the whole install. The existing post-install smoke test still catches a
genuinely broken install.
Signed-off-by: Daniel Hilst <392820+dhilst@users.noreply.github.com>
(cherry picked from commit 1b5938969c)
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>
(cherry picked from commit c1db278e1a)
The diskful service-node otherpkgs pkglist exists for every EL version and
both arches EXCEPT rhels10 ppc64le: install/rh/ has
service.rhels10.x86_64.otherpkgs.pkglist (and install/alma/ symlinks it) but
no ppc64le counterpart, while rhels5/6/7/8/9 and the netboot/ tree carry both
arches. xcat-test's SN_setup_case points a ppc64le service node's osimage
otherpkglist at install/<distro>/service.<ver>.ppc64le.otherpkgs.pkglist; with
the file absent the list resolves empty, so the otherpkgs postscript installs
nothing -- xCATsn never lands, xcatd never starts on the service node, and
every hierarchical dispatch fails with "<sn>:3001 No route to host /
Connection refused", cascading the whole *_hierarchy test suite.
Add install/rh/service.rhels10.ppc64le.otherpkgs.pkglist (xCATsn + the rh10
ppc64le goconserver, mirroring rhels9) and the install/alma symlink to it,
matching the existing x86_64 layout.
Signed-off-by: Daniel Hilst <392820+dhilst@users.noreply.github.com>
(cherry picked from commit 9ea3de343b)
cons/kvm ran `ssh -t <vmhost> screen ... <pty>`, which requires screen on every
hypervisor. Bare libvirt hosts (notably ppc64le power servers) ship tmux but not
screen, so goconserver's console fork failed and no console was captured.
Use tmux (present on all our libvirt hosts) for the shared detach/reattach
session, wrapping `virsh console` keyed on the domain name (== the xCAT node name
for KVM) -- stable across guest reboots, unlike the raw serial pty. The session
status bar is disabled so the captured console log stays clean serial.
Signed-off-by: Daniel Hilst <392820+dhilst@users.noreply.github.com>
(cherry picked from commit e331290414)
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>
(cherry picked from commit 3a5cbef630)
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>
(cherry picked from commit 03e1559989)
When a node's install NIC is selected by MAC (installnic=mac), the generated
netplan was invalid: it named the ethernet device the literal string 'mac' and
set its MAC match to the full pipe-delimited list of all node MACs. The result
had no valid interface, so neither the installer environment nor the installed
system came up on the network. Match the install NIC by interface-name glob in
the installer, and in the target use only the primary MAC and omit set-name
when the install NIC is selected by MAC.
Signed-off-by: Daniel Hilst <392820+dhilst@users.noreply.github.com>
(cherry picked from commit c6e38483fb)
The generated Subiquity autoinstall config defined no identity section. Newer
Subiquity treats a config without an identity as incomplete and stops at an
interactive "Continue with autoinstall?" confirmation, so the install never
proceeds unattended (the prompt's advice to add 'autoinstall' to the kernel
command line is a red herring -- it was already present). Provide an identity
with a password sourced from the cluster passwd table so the install runs
non-interactively.
Signed-off-by: Daniel Hilst <392820+dhilst@users.noreply.github.com>
(cherry picked from commit 86e77bcd7f)
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.
Address ShellCheck warnings across go-xcat without breaking
distro detection. Key changes:
- Replace source /etc/os-release with awk parsing that strips
quotes, fixing detection on distros that quote ID/VERSION_ID
- Use $() instead of backticks for command substitution
- Quote $1 and file path variables in dnf/yum repo version checks
- Use ${FUNCNAME[0]} instead of ${FUNCNAME} for dispatch calls
- Fix $@ vs $* usage in string contexts (warn_if_bad, el9 check)
- Remove useless use of cat (UUOC) in pipe chains
- Escape $releasever/$basearch/$stream in CRB repo echo
- Use xargs instead of unquoted command substitution in rm
- Split local declaration and assignment per SC2155
- Fix minor typos (secert -> secret, preform -> perform)
Signed-off-by: Vinícius Ferrão <vinicius@ferrao.net.br>
Co-Authored-By: Samveen <samveen@samveen.in>
Add a shared OMAPI policy helper for ISC DHCP and DDNS so administrators can select the key name, signing algorithm, and omshell path from the site table while preserving the existing xcat_key hmac-md5 default.
Keep local ISC updates from hanging indefinitely when omshell does not exit, and use a static host-declaration fallback for local Ubuntu ISC releases where omshell is unstable for xCAT host updates.
Co-authored-by: gskouson <1507929+gskouson@users.noreply.github.com>
The xCAT-server build-readme script runs every tool in share/xcat/tools/
with --help during RPM packaging. At build time perl-xCAT is not installed,
so the compile-time 'use xCAT::DHCP::Backend' aborts before --help can run.
Switch to runtime require inside the remove-operation branch where the
module is actually needed.
Docker container lifecycle management (mgt=docker, mkdocker, rmdocker,
lsdocker) was added in 2015-2016 as an experiment targeting Docker API
v1.22 on Ubuntu only. Documentation and man pages were deliberately
removed in 2019 (PRs #6222 and #6324) with the original developer's
approval, noting that "the interface of Docker has become very simple
right now, so there is no value for xCAT to offer such functions."
The plugin was still being shipped but has had no functional code changes
since April 2016, was never listed as a valid mgt value in Schema.pm,
and no user ever filed an issue about it.
Removed:
- xCAT-server/lib/xcat/plugins/docker.pm (1,142 lines)
- xCAT/postscripts/setupdockerhost
- xCAT-server/share/xcat/scripts/setup-dockerhost-cert.sh
- xCAT-test/autotest/testcase/dockercommand/ (test cases)
- Docker attribute definitions in Schema.pm
- Client symlinks (mkdocker, rmdocker, lsdocker)
- Usage entries and dockerhost cert handling in credentials.pm
- Docker attribute documentation in man7 pages
The "Running xCAT in Docker" documentation (dockerized_xcat/) is
retained as it documents containerizing xCAT itself, not the removed
mgt=docker feature.
Closes#7518
Daniel Hilst
Vinícius Ferrão
Markus Hilger