[xcat-user] new SLES10 kernel breaks xCAT

[John Griffin-Wiesner]

I'm in the process of setting up a new server to be a dedicated
xCAT 2 server for my bladecenter cluster.  I was working on my
xcat tables yesterday and all was well.  This morning I installed
a new kernel, and now I get this:

[root xcat]# tabdump site
Connection failure: IO::Socket::SSL: Timeout at /opt/xcat/lib/perl/xCAT/Client.pm line 138.

I've seen that before, and the last time "xcatconfig --force"
took care of it, I think by rebuilding the certs.  This time
xcatconfig wasn't the fix.

[root xcat]# rpm -qa --last kernel\* xCAT\*
kernel-smp-2.6.16.60-0.33                     Wed 26 Nov 2008 09:41:17 AM CST
kernel-source-2.6.16.60-0.33                  Wed 26 Nov 2008 09:41:08 AM CST
xCAT-2.1-snap200810191036                     Fri 21 Nov 2008 02:24:36 PM CST
xCAT-server-2.1-snap200810311519              Fri 21 Nov 2008 02:24:35 PM CST
xCAT-client-2.1-snap200810311626              Fri 21 Nov 2008 02:24:35 PM CST
xCAT-nbkernel-x86_64-2.6.18_92-7              Wed 19 Nov 2008 03:43:26 PM CST
xCAT-nbkernel-x86-2.6.18_92-7                 Wed 19 Nov 2008 03:43:20 PM CST
xCAT-nbroot-core-x86_64-2.1-snap200810301123  Wed 19 Nov 2008 03:43:10 PM CST
xCAT-nbroot-core-x86-2.1-snap200810301124     Wed 19 Nov 2008 03:43:09 PM CST
xCAT-nbroot-oss-x86-2.0-snap200804021050      Wed 19 Nov 2008 03:43:08 PM CST
xCAT-nbroot-oss-x86_64-2.0-snap200801291344   Wed 19 Nov 2008 03:43:06 PM CST

Now that I look at that output, I think I might have also
reinstalled xCAT xCAT-server and xCAT-client as well as run
"xcatconfig --force".  Now I'm wondering if the reinstall of
those three rpm's was the real fix the last time.

Thoughts?

-- 
John Griffin-Wiesner
Linux Cluster/Unix Systems Administrator
Univ. MN Supercomputing Institute
http://www.msi.umn.edu
johngw at msi.umn.edu