[gpfsug-discuss] GPFS autoload no longer working with RHEL 7.2

Stefan Dietrich stefan.dietrich at desy.de
Mon Dec 21 09:18:53 GMT 2015


Hi Ben,

thanks! Looks like I completely missed that bug report.
As currently only the GPFS machines are affected, I will wait until
this has been fixed and just create a copy of file the via Puppet.

Regards,
Stefan


On Fr, 2015-12-18 at 20:57 +0000, Allen, Benjamin S. wrote:
> Hi Stefan,
> 
> Looks like this issue is being tracking here:
> 
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1285492
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1288005
> - Shows fixed in systemd-219-19.el7_2.3, but I don't see that version
> available yet on RHN. 
> 
> Redhat has a knowledge base article about it here: https://access.red
> hat.com/solutions/2067013
> 
> If you wanted to build your own patched systemd package in the
> meantime, the one-line patch looks to be: https://github.com/systemd/
> systemd/commit/7b729f8686a83b24f3d9a891cde1c. Alternatively I'd open
> a ticket with Redhat asking for the above RPM.
> 
> Ben
> 
> > On Dec 18, 2015, at 2:39 PM, Dietrich, Stefan <stefan.dietrich at desy
> > .de> wrote:
> > 
> > Hello,
> > 
> > maybe someone on the list can confirm my current observation...or
> > just saves a bit of debugging time ;)
> > 
> > We are running GPFS 4.1.0.8 with CentOS 7.2.
> > With the recent update to systemd, GPFS is no longer started after
> > a machine reboot.
> > I traced this back to systemd and the /etc/init.d/gpfs initscript.
> > systemd-sysv-generator no longer converts /etc/init.d/gpfs to a
> > unit file, because it is a symlink pointing to
> > /usr/lpp/mmfs/bin/gpfsrunlevel.
> > Replacing the symlink with a copy of the file works as a workaround
> > and systemd starts GPFS again on boot time.
> > 
> > I am aware of the systemd always unmounting filesystems issue,
> > which had been recently posted here as well.
> > But so far, I did not read about this particular issue.
> > 
> > Working on 7.1:
> > # systemctl status gpfs
> > gpfs.service - LSB: General Parallel File System
> >   Loaded: loaded (/etc/rc.d/init.d/gpfs)
> > 
> > Broken on 7.2:
> > # systemctl status gpfs
> > ● gpfs.service
> >   Loaded: not-found (Reason: No such file or directory)
> > 
> > As this my first post to this mailing list, a brief introduction.
> > We (DESY) are running a GPFS installation with ESS building blocks
> > as a storage system for our local x-ray light source.
> > Currently we are in shutdown phase, where we prepare everything for
> > the next run of the accelerator with bigger and faster detectors.
> > Martin Gasthuber recently held a talk about our setup on the GPFSUG
> > at SC15 as well.
> > 
> > Regards,
> > Stefan
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