<div dir="ltr">The main reason is that I have spent a lot of time customizing the particular image I'm working with. I need to either layer on that customization to a starcluster image or layer on starcluster to the customized image -- it seems to me that the latter is easier. I was thinking that there would be a set of packages to install for starcluster, such as gridengine, but I couldn't find such a list. <div>
<br></div><div>I'll install gridengine and determine if that helps.</div><div><br></div><div>thanks, jim</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Feb 4, 2014 at 9:56 AM, Rayson Ho <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:raysonlogin@gmail.com" target="_blank">raysonlogin@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">That's because your AMI does not have Grid Engine (boot up a<br>
StarCluster instance and look in /opt/sge6 ) and other StarCluster<br>
customization installed.<br>
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What is the main reason to go with the stock Ubuntu image?<br>
<br>
Rayson<br>
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On Tue, Feb 4, 2014 at 11:49 AM, James Bullard <<a href="mailto:scientificb@gmail.com">scientificb@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
> Hi, this question has got to be an easy one to answer, but I couldn't<br>
> contrive the right search terms to find it. I am trying to launch a<br>
> starcluster using an AMI which I already have. Briefly, I installed<br>
> starcluster on my AMI (ami-323f5c02), I then launched the small cluster<br>
> using the default starcluster without issue (using ami-765b3e1f for both<br>
> both MASTER and NODE).<br>
><br>
> Now, I changed the following two values in starcluster's configuration:<br>
><br>
> NODE_IMAGE_ID = ami-323f5c02<br>
> MASTER_IMAGE_ID = ami-323f5c02<br>
><br>
> And try to launch the same cluster, and I get the following error:<br>
><br>
>>>> Starting NFS server on master<br>
><br>
> !!! ERROR - Error occured while running plugin<br>
> 'starcluster.clustersetup.DefaultClusterSetup':<br>
> !!! ERROR - remote command 'source /etc/profile && /etc/init.d/nfs<br>
> !!! ERROR - start' failed with status 127:<br>
> !!! ERROR - bash: /etc/init.d/nfs: No such file or directory<br>
><br>
> Naturally, I installed NFS on the image and rolled a new one and tried<br>
> again, but that didn't help. I'm guessing starcluster has a custom NFS<br>
> script?<br>
><br>
> Do I have to start with a starcluster image? If so, how do I absorb updates<br>
> -- that would seem like a great deal of work. I couldn't find a page which<br>
> said, "Starcluster needs the following packages: ..."<br>
><br>
> I'm on a stock ubuntu 12.04 64x image.<br>
><br>
> thanks much in advance, this is going to be an amazing time saver.<br>
><br>
> jim<br>
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