Am Freitag, den 06.02.2015, 13:45 +0100 schrieb Thomas Lange:
> > On Fri, 6 Feb 2015 12:40:53 +0100, "Christian Meyer" <c2h...@web.de> said:
>
> > there is no /srv/fai/nfsroot/live/filesystem.dir/etc/fai/ directory
>
> > the cause of the problem was the missing package fai-nfsroot in
> > /etc/fai/NFSROOT
> a much better error message (less technical details but more help to
> the user how to fix it) would be "Why did you removed fai-nfsroot from
> /etc/fai/NFSROOT?"
> I think I cannot consider all those cases in the error messages. In 99%
> this error messages is caused by forgetting to build the
> nfsroot.
> You are the first one who did build the nfsroot, but it was
> build incorrectly.
Oh really? - this explains why I didn't find a solution online.
> Sorry, I think I can't catch all thoses cases with
> better error messages.
Okay, thats right. I remember murphys law. ("It is impossible to make
anything foolproof ...")
I wonder why you test $NFSROOT/etc/fai and not $NFSROOT.
Of course it makes sense: the NFSROOT isn't useful without fai-nfsroot.
But the error message is about an not existing NFSROOT at all.
My intention in filing this bug report was to help making FAI friendlier
to newbies and misconfiguration. I thought of something like:
[ -d "$NFSROOT" ] || die 10 "Please create NFSROOT by calling
fai-make-nfsroot or fai-setup."
[ -d "$NFSROOT/etc/fai" ] || die XY "Don't remove fai-nfsroot
from /etc/fai/NFSROOT. You'll need it!"
Okay: perhaps it makes more sense when fai-make-nfsroot (and not fai-cd)
is testing $NFSROOT/etc/fai (along with other really important packages)
- or (at least) comment these rip (really important packages ;) )
in /etc/fai/NFSROOT like you did with the architecture dependend kernel
images: # you should not edit the lines below
But I agree: If this is really rare and I am the first and only person
with this particular problem - please feel free to simply close this
bug.
> I wonder why you removed the package fai-nfsroot from /etc/fai/NFSROOT?
Short answer: I didn't remove it intentionally and I don't know why
$NFSROOT/etc/fai wasn't present.
Yes: I messed up the configuration before but I thought I had cleaned it
up again. - Possibly not good enough.
In fact fai-nfsroot package was in /etc/fai/NFSROOT and I only added it
a second time in the file to fix it (don't looked for it before). I
tried to reproduce the problem and track it down but didn't find the
cause of why the NFSROOT is build (even without an error) but
fai-nfsroot is not included.
Christian Meyer
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