beegfs-client 7.0 is not working on Centos 7.5

[Irek Porebski]

Hi Guys,

I just installed new server with latest CentOS Linux release 7.5.1804. Installed latest BeeGFS 7.0 client and it not working. 

Do I miss something or BeeGFS is not supported on Centos 7.5?

 cat beegfs-client.log

(1) Sep12 10:29:30 Main [App] >> BeeGFS Helper Daemon Version: 7.0

(1) Sep12 10:29:30 Main [App] >> Client log messages will be prefixed with an asterisk (*) symbol.

(3) Sep12 10:29:36 *mount(25981) [DatagramListener (init sock)] >> Listening for UDP datagrams: Port 8004

(1) Sep12 10:29:36 *mount(25981) [App_logInfos] >> BeeGFS Client Version: 7.0

(2) Sep12 10:29:36 *mount(25981) [App_logInfos] >> ClientID: 657D-5B985DF0-<client-name>

(2) Sep12 10:29:36 *mount(25981) [App_logInfos] >> Usable NICs: ib0(RDMA) ib0(TCP)

(3) Sep12 10:29:36 *beegfs_XNodeSyn(25983) [NodeConn (acquire stream)] >> Connected: beegfs-...@127.0.0.1:8006 (protocol: TCP)

(3) Sep12 10:29:36 *beegfs_DGramLis(25982) [DatagramListener (listen loop)] >> Received invalid message from peer 192.168.0.1

(3) Sep12 10:29:37 *beegfs_DGramLis(25982) [DatagramListener (listen loop)] >> Received invalid message from peer 192.168.0.1

(3) Sep12 10:29:47 *beegfs_DGramLis(25982) [DatagramListener (listen loop)] >> Received invalid message from peer 192.168.0.1

(3) Sep12 10:29:48 *beegfs_DGramLis(25982) [DatagramListener (listen loop)] >> Received invalid message from peer 192.168.0.1

(0) Sep12 10:29:48 *mount(25981) [Mount sanity check] >> Waiting for management server initialization timed out. Are the server settings correct? Is the management daemon running?

(2) Sep12 10:29:48 *mount(25981) [App (stop components)] >> Stopping components...

(1) Sep12 10:29:50 *mount(25981) [App (stop)] >> All components stopped.

Thanks,

Irek

[cris...@huza.ro]

Had the same issue some months ago - check out the centos 7.5 patch on their website: https://www.beegfs.io/wiki/ofed4.3patch

You need to rebuild the client afterwards.

[François Prud'homme]

I don't know if you are concerned, but last kernel can cause problem : https://bugs.centos.org/view.php?id=15193

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/08/21/fix_for_julys_spectrelike_bug_is_breaking_some_supers/

[Irek Porebski]

Thanks for the Kernel link. This fixed the RDMA problem which I have noticed. 

Also I have found out that  beegfs-client is not backward compatible in the same release (7).

My  beegfs-mgmtd is running 7.0-rc2el7 and the client is running stable version 7.0-el7, and they don't talk.

 

I have found on this list that client 7.0-rc3 wasn't able to talk to beegfs-mgmtd 7.0rc2 as well. 

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/fhgfs-user/ex9XRG79KK0

So it looks like I need to upgrade everything. 

This information should be corrected on the website as it stay incorrect. 

Thanks,

Irek