[Starcluster] starcluster fails to mount /home with NFS

[Justin Riley]

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Hi Gabriel,

Thanks for joining the list and sorry to hear you're having issues using
StarCluster.

This looks like a problem with portmap starting. Could you check if
portmap is running on the nodes?

Try something like:

$ /etc/init.d/portmap status

and

$ pgrep portmap -lf

I'm testing now with the ami-a19e71c8 image and c1.xlarge instances to
see if I can reproduce your issue.

Has this happened to you more than once?

~Justin



On 04/15/2010 04:56 PM, Gabriel Hoffman wrote:
> I am using starcluster to launch 3 c1.xlarge instances using 
> ami-a19e71c8.  starcluster -s works fine and does not generate any 
> errors and my EBS is correctly mounted on /home in the master.  My 
> problem is that starcluster does not correctly mount this on the nodes 
> using NFS.  When I try to mount manually, I get the following error:
> 
> root at domU-12-31-39-0F-6D-D1:/home# mount /home
> mount.nfs: mount to NFS server 
> 'domU-12-31-39-0F-6C-F1.compute-1.internal' failed: RPC Error: Program 
> not registered
> 
> This also fails with m1.large and ami-a19e71c8.  However, the NFS works 
> fine when I use m1.small instances with ami-8f9e71e6.
> 
> Any ideas about how to get starcluster to use NFS correctly with c1.xlarge?
> 
> Here is my .starclustercfg:
> 
> 
> [section aws]
> 
> ---
> 
> [section ssh]
> 
> ---
> 
> [section cluster]
> 
> # cluster size
> CLUSTER_SIZE = 3
> 
> # create the following user on the cluster
> CLUSTER_USER = sgeadmin
> 
> # optionally specify shell (defaults to bash)
> # options: bash, zsh, csh, ksh, tcsh
> CLUSTER_SHELL = bash
> 
> # AMI for master node. Defaults to NODE_IMAGE_ID if not specified
> # The base i386 StarCluster AMI is ami-8f9e71e6
> # The base x86_64 StarCluster AMI is ami-a19e71c8
> MASTER_IMAGE_ID = ami-a19e71c8
> 
> 
> # AMI for worker nodes. Also used for the master node if MASTER_IMAGE_ID 
> is not specified
> # The base i386 StarCluster AMI is ami-8f9e71e6
> # The base x86_64 StarCluster AMI is ami-a19e71c8
> NODE_IMAGE_ID = ami-a19e71c8
> 
> # instance type
> INSTANCE_TYPE = c1.xlarge
> 
> # availability zone
> AVAILABILITY_ZONE = us-east-1a
> 
> [section ebs]
> 
> # NOTE: this section is optional, uncomment to use
> # attach volume to /home on master node
> 
> ATTACH_VOLUME = vol-598b2130
> 
> VOLUME_DEVICE = /dev/sdj
> 
> VOLUME_PARTITION = /dev/sdj1
> 
> 
> 

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