Chuming- I'm not surprised by this since the roll building functionality in rocks-dist didn't build a biobrew.xml file when creating the roll. You'd think it would, but alas no. My recommendation is to take a look at the other rolls and manually create a biobrew xml kickstart file to insert into the build process. I've cc'd the biobrew list to enlist help there as well. No one else has reported this problem. Glen On Jan 12, 2006, at 1:27 PM, Chuming Chen wrote: > Hi all, > > I run "rocks-dist dist" on the frontend node to build Rocks > distribution for my compute nodes > "Resolving versions (base files)", "Resolving versions (RPMs)" and > "Resolving versions (SRPMs)" steps are OK, but "Installing XML > Kickstart profiles" step failed to create Kickstart profile for > biobrew. What could be wrong here? Without Kickstart XML profile, > my compute nodes will not grap and install biobrew. > > # rocks-dist dist > Cleaning distribution > Resolving versions (base files) > including "kernel" (4.1,i386) roll... > including "area51" (4.1,i386) roll... > including "java" (4.1,i386) roll... > including "pbs" (4.1.0,i386) roll... > including "sge" (4.1,i386) roll... > including "biobrew" (4.1,i386) roll... > including "hpc" (4.1,i386) roll... > including "base" (4.1,i386) roll... > including "grid" (4.1,i386) roll... > including "web-server" (4.1,i386) roll... > including "ganglia" (4.1,i386) roll... > including "os" (4.1,i386) roll... > Resolving versions (RPMs) > including "kernel" (4.1,i386) roll... > including "area51" (4.1,i386) roll... > including "java" (4.1,i386) roll... > including "pbs" (4.1.0,i386) roll... > including "sge" (4.1,i386) roll... > including "biobrew" (4.1,i386) roll... > including "hpc" (4.1,i386) roll... > including "base" (4.1,i386) roll... > including "grid" (4.1,i386) roll... > including "web-server" (4.1,i386) roll... > including "ganglia" (4.1,i386) roll... > including "os" (4.1,i386) roll... > Resolving versions (SRPMs) > including "kernel" (4.1,i386) roll... > including "area51" (4.1,i386) roll... > including "java" (4.1,i386) roll... > including "pbs" (4.1.0,i386) roll... > including "sge" (4.1,i386) roll... > including "biobrew" (4.1,i386) roll... > including "hpc" (4.1,i386) roll... > including "base" (4.1,i386) roll... > including "grid" (4.1,i386) roll... > including "web-server" (4.1,i386) roll... > including "ganglia" (4.1,i386) roll... > including "os" (4.1,i386) roll... > Creating files (symbolic links - fast) > Applying netstg2.img > Installing XML Kickstart profiles > installing "web-server" profiles... > installing "sge" profiles... > installing "grid" profiles... > installing "base" profiles... > installing "pbs" profiles... > installing "hpc" profiles... > installing "ganglia" profiles... > installing "os" profiles... > installing "area51" profiles... > installing "kernel" profiles... > installing "java" profiles... > installing "site" profiles... > Fixing Comps.xml Database > Generating hdlist (rpm database) > making "torrent" files for RPMS > Cleaning distribution > Resolving versions (base files) > including "kernel" (4.1,i386) roll... > including "base" (4.1,i386) roll... > Resolving versions (RPMs) > including "kernel" (4.1,i386) roll... > including "base" (4.1,i386) roll... > Resolving versions (SRPMs) > including "kernel" (4.1,i386) roll... > including "base" (4.1,i386) roll... > Creating files (symbolic links - fast) > Applying netstg2.img > Installing XML Kickstart profiles > installing "kernel" profiles... > installing "base" profiles... > Generating hdlist (rpm database) > Linking boot stages from lan > Building Roll Central Links > > > # ls /export/home/install/rocks-dist/lan/i386/build/ > graphs roll-area51.xml roll-grid.xml roll-kernel.xml roll- > sge.xml > include roll-base.xml roll-hpc.xml roll-os.xml roll-web- > server.xml > nodes roll-ganglia.xml roll-java.xml roll-pbs.xml > > Thanks, > > Chuming Chen > >