[Rocks-Discuss] Home directories are not available on computes

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Nathan Elmore 06

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Mar 3, 2009, 1:22:35 PM3/3/09
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Hello list,

I am having a probem accessing users home directories on the compute nodes.

I have already run every form of # rocks sync ... command

When a user ssh's over to them. It prompts for password and gives the
following message:

Warning: untrusted X11 forwarding setup failed: xauth key data not generated
Warning: No xauth data; using fake authentication data for X11 forwarding.
Last login: Tue Mar 3 10:58:45 2009 from 10.1.1.1
Rocks Compute Node
Rocks 5.1 (V.I)
Profile built 09:44 10-Feb-2009

Kickstarted 10:01 10-Feb-2009
Could not chdir to home directory /home/elmoren: No such file or directory
/usr/bin/xauth: error in locking authority file /home/elmoren/.Xauthority
-bash: /home/elmoren/.ncbirc: No such file or directory
mkdir: cannot create directory `/home/elmoren': No such file or directory

Thanks,
-Nate

Cole Brand

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Mar 3, 2009, 1:34:56 PM3/3/09
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Hello Nathan, list

Ok, again, just trying to be helpful, and learning in the process: I get
the same set of lines all the way through kickstarted, but I think you
already knew that, so everything so far seems to be good, it just can't
mount the nfs share. I presume you can ssh root into the machines, and no
problems, right?

What is the output of "cat /etc/mtab" on a compute node (as root is fine)?

What about "cat /etc/exports" on the FE?

Cole

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Kaufman, Ian

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Mar 3, 2009, 1:44:13 PM3/3/09
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Have you tried restarting the automounter? Anything of
interest in the logfiles (both client and server)?

Ian Kaufman
Research Systems Administrator
UC San Diego, Jacobs School of Engineering

Nathan Elmore 06

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Mar 3, 2009, 1:50:01 PM3/3/09
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Hello,

That is correct, I can ssh as root with no problem.

C-0-0 (This is the same whether logged on as root or user)
# cat /etc/mtab
/dev/hda1 / ext3 rw 0 0
proc /proc proc rw 0 0
sysfs /sys sysfs rw 0 0
devpts /dev/pts devpts rw,gid=5,mode=620 0 0
/dev/hda2 /var ext3 rw 0 0
/dev/hda5 /state/partition1 ext3 rw 0 0
tmpfs /dev/shm tmpfs rw 0 0
none /proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc binfmt_misc rw 0 0
sunrpc /var/lib/nfs/rpc_pipefs rpc_pipefs rw 0 0

Front End
# cat /etc/exports
/export 10.1.1.1(rw,async,no_root_squash) 10.1.0.0/255.255.0.0(rw,async)

-Nate

Nathan Elmore 06

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Mar 3, 2009, 2:13:46 PM3/3/09
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Hello,

I've tried restarting the automount. What am I looking for in the log
files, and which log should I be looking in? The messages file?

Nate

David Hoskinson

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Mar 3, 2009, 2:16:16 PM3/3/09
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Yes I have. I believe I have found my issue, in auto.home I was following
the aa.local default for where to mount from instead of specifying the new
server I was mounting home from. I will repost if I haven't solved.

Kaufman, Ian

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Mar 3, 2009, 2:28:49 PM3/3/09
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Usually /var/log/daemon - grep for automount
on both the frontend (or NFS server if it is
a separate system) and the client.

Ian Kaufman
Research Systems Administrator
UC San Diego, Jacobs School of Engineering


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Nathan Elmore 06

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Mar 3, 2009, 2:35:10 PM3/3/09
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Ok here's what I have found

Mar 3 11:37:16 topaz automount[2440]: lookup_mount: lookup(file): key
"install" not found in map
Mar 3 12:00:15 topaz automount[2438]: lookup_mount: lookup(file): key
"mysql" not found in map
Mar 3 12:00:15 topaz automount[2438]: lookup_mount: lookup(file): key
"mysql" not found in map

Thanks
Nate

Kaufman, Ian

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Mar 3, 2009, 2:50:30 PM3/3/09
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OK, open a terminal to the head node as root and run
tail -f /var/log/daemon

and then use another terminal to ssh into a node as a
user. You should see the mount request in the first
terminal, and possibly an error.

Ian Kaufman
Research Systems Administrator
UC San Diego, Jacobs School of Engineering


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