<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Dear StarCluster, <div><br></div><div>Sorry if I'm bothering still with this problem, but it seems that there is a bug with the <font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Courier New'">createvolume</font> command in the latest starcluster version. </div><div><br></div><div>Trying to create a new volume with starcluster I get the error below. The same command with an older version works without any problem. </div><div><br></div><div>Could you please confirm that this is an issue ? </div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Cheers,</div><div>Paolo </div><div><br></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Courier New'"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;"><br></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Courier New'"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;"><br></span></font></div><div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Courier New'"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;"><b>$ starcluster createvolume -n "lab-tools" 1 us-east-1d</b></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Courier New'"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">StarCluster - (<a href="http://web.mit.edu/starcluster">http://web.mit.edu/starcluster</a>) (v. 0.93.1)</span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Courier New'"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">Software Tools for Academics and Researchers (STAR)</span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Courier New'"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">Please submit bug reports to <a href="mailto:starcluster@mit.edu">starcluster@mit.edu</a></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Courier New'"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;"><br></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Courier New'"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">>>> No keypair specified, picking one from config...</span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Courier New'"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">>>> Using keypair: maquito</span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Courier New'"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">>>> Creating security group @sc-volumecreator...</span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Courier New'"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">>>> No instance in group @sc-volumecreator for zone us-east-1d, launching one now.</span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Courier New'"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">Reservation:r-9c1ae9fc</span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Courier New'"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">>>> Waiting for volume host to come up... (updating every 30s)</span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Courier New'"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">>>> Waiting for all nodes to be in a 'running' state...</span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Courier New'"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">1/1 |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||| 100% </span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Courier New'"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">>>> Waiting for SSH to come up on all nodes...</span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Courier New'"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">1/1 |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||| 100% </span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Courier New'"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">>>> Waiting for cluster to come up took 1.313 mins</span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Courier New'"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">>>> Checking for required remote commands...</span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Courier New'"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">>>> Creating 1GB volume in zone us-east-1d</span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Courier New'"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">>>> New volume id: vol-c4fb1da8</span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Courier New'"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">>>> Waiting for new volume to become 'available'... </span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Courier New'"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">>>> Attaching volume vol-c4fb1da8 to instance i-cb598bae... </span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Courier New'"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">>>> Formatting volume...</span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Courier New'"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;"><b>mke2fs 1.41.14 (22-Dec-2010)</b></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Courier New'"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;"><b><br></b></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Courier New'"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;"><b>mkfs.ext3: No such file or directory while trying to determine filesystem size</b></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Courier New'"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;"><b><br></b></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Courier New'"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;"><b>!!! ERROR - command 'mkfs.ext3 -F /dev/sdz' failed with status 1</b></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Courier New'"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">>>> Leaving volume vol-c4fb1da8 attached to instance i-cb598bae</span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Courier New'"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">>>> Not terminating host instance i-cb598bae</span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Courier New'"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">*** WARNING - There are still volume hosts running: i-cb598bae</span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Courier New'"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">*** WARNING - Run 'starcluster terminate volumecreator' to terminate *all* volume host instances once they're no longer needed</span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Courier New'"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">>>> Your new 1GB volume vol-c4fb1da8 has been created successfully</span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Courier New'"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">>>> Creating volume took 1.742 mins</span></font></div></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br><div><div>On Jan 24, 2012, at 6:10 PM, Paolo Di Tommaso wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Dear all, <div><br></div><div>When I try to create an new volume using the <font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Courier New'">createvolume</font> command I get the following error:</div><div><br></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Courier New'">>>> Formatting volume...<br>mke2fs 1.41.14 (22-Dec-2010)<br>mkfs.ext3: No such file or directory while trying to determine filesystem size<br>!!! ERROR - command 'mkfs.ext3 -F /dev/sdz' failed with status 1</font></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Despite that the command itself does not terminate with an error (below the complete trace).</div><div><br></div><div>But when I try to start a cluster instance using that volume, it will not be attached. </div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Is this a bug or I'm missing something ? </div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Thank you, </div><div>Paolo</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Courier New'"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; "><br></span></font></div><div><div style="background-color: transparent; "><b id="internal-source-marker_0.1211901931092143" style="font-weight: normal; font-size: 13px;"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Courier New'"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">$ starcluster createvolume --tag=lab-soft 10 us-east-1d</span><br><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">StarCluster - (<a href="http://web.mit.edu/starcluster">http://web.mit.edu/starcluster</a>) (v. 0.93.1)</span><br><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">Software Tools for Academics and Researchers (STAR)</span><br><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">Please submit bug reports to <a href="mailto:starcluster@mit.edu">starcluster@mit.edu</a></span><br><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; "></span><br><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">>>> No keypair specified, picking one from config...</span><br><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">>>> Using keypair: maquito</span><br><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">>>> Creating security group @sc-volumecreator...</span><br><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">>>> No instance in group @sc-volumecreator for zone us-east-1d, launching one now.</span><br><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">Reservation:r-537e6232</span><br><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">>>> Waiting for volume host to come up... (updating every 30s)</span><br><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">>>> Waiting for all nodes to be in a 'running' state...</span><br><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">1/1 |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||| 100% </span><br><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">>>> Waiting for SSH to come up on all nodes...</span><br><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">1/1 |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||| 100% </span><br><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">>>> Waiting for cluster to come up took 1.277 mins</span><br><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">>>> Checking for required remote commands...</span><br><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">>>> Creating 10GB volume in zone us-east-1d</span><br><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">>>> New volume id: vol-afa9a2c2</span><br><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">>>> Waiting for new volume to become 'available'... </span><br><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">>>> Adding volume tag: lab-soft</span><br><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">>>> Attaching volume vol-afa9a2c2 to instance i-1faa407a... </span><br><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">>>> Formatting volume...</span><br><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">mke2fs 1.41.14 (22-Dec-2010)</span><br><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; "></span><br><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">mkfs.ext3: No such file or directory while trying to determine filesystem size</span><br><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; "></span><br><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">!!! ERROR - command 'mkfs.ext3 -F /dev/sdz' failed with status 1</span><br><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">>>> Leaving volume vol-afa9a2c2 attached to instance i-1faa407a</span><br><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">>>> Not terminating host instance i-1faa407a</span><br><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">*** WARNING - There are still volume hosts running: i-1faa407a</span><br><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">*** WARNING - Run 'starcluster terminate volumecreator' to terminate *all* volume host instances once they're no longer needed</span><br><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">>>> Your new 10GB volume vol-afa9a2c2 has been created successfully</span><br><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">>>> Creating volume took 1.777 mins</span></font></b></div></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Courier New'"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;"><br></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Courier New'"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;"><br></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Courier New'"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;"><br></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Courier New'"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;"><br></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Courier New'"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;"><br></span></font></div><div><br></div></div>_______________________________________________<br>StarCluster mailing list<br><a href="mailto:StarCluster@mit.edu">StarCluster@mit.edu</a><br>http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/starcluster<br></blockquote></div><br></div></body></html>