<div dir="ltr">I think this is it - this was a stateless image and /var/ was initially part of tmpfs...anyway i am 99% certain that this was the issue. when i get a chance to boot these again with stateless image i will report back. <div><br></div><div>thanks all for your help.</div><div>damir</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">On Tue, Jan 12, 2016 at 2:20 PM Sven Oehme <<a href="mailto:oehmes@us.ibm.com">oehmes@us.ibm.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div><pre>I have seen this with a read-only or full /var/ filesystem before. Could that be the case ?
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This error never happened previously.<br><br>Various 'mm*' commands were returning the "Unknown OS" error. Note that<br>there was no OS named at the end of the error message, as if $osName<br>was not defined in /usr/lpp/mmfs/bin/mmglobfuncs.<br><br>The 'uname -s' command on these nodes does return "Linux" both locally<br>and remotely via an ssh connection from a GPFS manager node.<br><br>Updating OS distribution packages & rebooting the nodes & rebuilding the<br>kernel-specific gpfs.gplbin packge resolved the problem, so I'm not sure<br>of the exact cause.<br><br>Mark<br><br>=> see the same, when the command is run locally on the node and through an<br>=> ssh session. Since mmaddnode has to do some remote processing, make sure<br>=> ssh works as expected, in particular in the locale setting area.<br>=> <br>=> yuri<br>=> <br>=> <br>=> <br>=> From: Damir Krstic <<a href="mailto:damir.krstic@gmail.com" target="_blank">damir.krstic@gmail.com</a>><br>=> To: <a href="mailto:gpfsug-discuss@spectrumscale.org" target="_blank">gpfsug-discuss@spectrumscale.org</a>,<br>=> Date: 01/12/2016 06:16 AM<br>=> Subject: [gpfsug-discuss] weird issue when issuing mm commands<br>=> Sent by: <a href="mailto:gpfsug-discuss-bounces@spectrumscale.org" target="_blank">gpfsug-discuss-bounces@spectrumscale.org</a><br>=> <br>=> <br>=> <br>=> I have just deployed a GPU node in our HPC environment and I am having<br>=> couple of weird issues when trying to add it to our GPFS cluster. mmaddnode<br>=> command from NSD server returns with: unknown os<br>=> <br>=> mmgetstate on the node itself returns with unknown os<br>=> <br>=> I think I've traced it down to locale issue but reinstalling glibc-common<br>=> and making sure that /etc/sysconfig/i18n files are in place and OK does not<br>=> seem to fix the issue. 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