I am attempting to setup a set 10 10 diskless nodes. They will be used to automate the install of an OS on the local hard disk. Due to their transient nature, the machines get their IP via DHCP. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Followed steps to make a diskless node. 2. Omitted TFTP as I plan to use a kernel on floppy due to network restrictions 3. Attempted to boot system Actual Results: The kernel boots fine and the init scripts start to run. The following scripts/steps run: Mounting proc Starting devfsd Activating Swap (none on system) Remounting root read-only Fsck Remounting root read-write Setting Hostname Calculating module dependencies Checking all filesystems Mounting Local Filesystems Activating more swap -------Here's where things go haywire------ Caching service dependencies reports sucess, but also reports: Could not create /var/lib/init.d/softscripts, /var/lib/init.d/snaphot, /var/lib/init.d/opt ions, /var/lib/init.d/started. ln then spews about 3 screens of errors followed by mv having problems stating files. I am then deposited at a login prompt where pam experiences critical errors requiring an immediate abort. Expected Results: System to boot and run through init and present me with a usable workstation. Test machines: IBM Thinkpad T20 - PIII 700 MHz, 128MB Ram, 3com 3c59x ethernet card IBM Thinkpad T22 - PIII 900 MHZ, 256MB Ram, Intel eepro100 ethernet card IBM Thinkpad T30 - PIV 1.8GHZ, 256MB Ram, Intel eepro100 ethernet card
Could you provide us with the listing of the errors (in full)?
Found out that having -pam in my use flags was causing the issue. Rebuilding the system with pam enabled in USE flags. Forgot about this bug until I ran into a different bug on a different arch. Sorry for not filing this sooner.
No problem :) At least now we know the issue so that ppl searching on bugs.gentoo.org with a similar problem have a possible solution :)
