Re: CSA instllation

Hi Yuan,

Here is a pointer to a good HOWTO documentation on building a linux
kernel and patching a kernel, if you need it:
http://oss.sgi.com/LDP/HOWTO/Kernel-HOWTO/index.html

Cheeers,
  - jay


Jay Lan wrote:
> Yuan Xu wrote:
> 
>> Dear Sir:
>>
>> I am trying to install CSA on my linux cluster running
>> kernel: kernel-smp-2.4.20-24.8 and having troubles to make it run.
>>
>> Here is what I did.
>>
>> 1) I installed job-1.2.0-1.i386.rpm and csa-2.1.1-1.i386.rpm
>> 2) It was OK and got no problems to install them
>> 3) I followed the man page of csa to start the job and csa
>> 4) /etc/init.d/csa start worked and gave no error messages
>> 5) /etc/init.d/job start gave me following error messages:
>>
>> Enabling Linux Jobs
>>  Failed to load the job module. Consult /var/log/messages for
>>  additional error messages to determine the cause of failure.
>>
>> and log file: messages showed:
>>
>> insmod: insmod: job: no module by that name found
>>
>> 6) When I ran /usr/sbin/csaswitch -c on -n csa and got
>>
>> Can't open /proc/csa
>>    System Error(2): No such file or directory.
>> Can't open /proc/csa
>>    System Error(2): No such file or directory.
>> Unable to get the Kernel and Daemon accounting status information.
>> Unable to get the Kernel and Daemon accounting status information.
>>    System Error(2): No such file or directory
>>
>> Now my questions are:
> 
> 
> Dear Yuan Xu,
> 
> Those csa and job rpms need to have kernel patches applied.
> 
>>
>> 1) What version of csa and job should I used for my kernel. I know the
>> kernel is kind of old but we have to live with it.
> 
> 
> Please try to use 2.4.26 version of pagg, job and csa kernel patches
> since they contain bug fixes found so far and are the latest version
> we maintain for 2.4 kernel. I am sorry we do not have patches for
> 2.4.20. You likely need to resolve a few conflicts. Please feel free
> to ask if you encounter any problem.
> 
> Assuming you are using 2.4.26 kernel patches, the job and csa rpm
> you already installed are fine.
> 
>>
>> 2) It looks like I have to install patches also. So what versions of
>> patches do I have to use and 
> 
> 
> See above.
> 
>>
>> 3) How do I apply patches to my kernel.
> 
> 
> You need to set up a linux kernel build area. You can download a 2.4
> linux kernel of youe choice from:
> ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.4
> 
> and then use 'patch' command to apply the kernel patches to your
> kernel base.
> 
> A README file from the kernel source tells you how to build a kernel.
> 
>>
>> 4) How do I load the required module
> 
> 
> After you build your new kernel and reboot, the csa and job should
> get loaded at system startup.
> 
>>
>> I will be very delighted if you could help me solve my CSA installation
>> problems.
>>
>> Thank you very much and have a good day
> 
> 
> I apologized for late response. My email filtering did not work well.
> I aleady turned off the filtering. :(
> 
> Cheers!
>  - jay
> 
>>
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