[StarCluster] starcluster starts but not all nodes added as exec nodes
Justin Riley
jtriley at MIT.EDU
Wed Apr 6 13:49:31 EDT 2011
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Hi Jeff,
Did you reinstall after pulling the latest code using "python setup.py
install"? If so, what version of boto do you have installed? You can
check this with:
% python -c 'import boto; print boto.Version'
2.0b4
The version should be 2.0b4 as above.
~Justin
On 04/06/2011 01:04 PM, Jeff White wrote:
> Hi Justin,
>
> Thanks much for your effort on this. I got this error upon running
> 'starcluster -s 25 start jswtest'. I have not altered my config file
> from the one I sent you previously.
>
> PID: 5530 config.py:515 - DEBUG - Loading config
> PID: 5530 config.py:108 - DEBUG - Loading file:
> /home/jsw/.starcluster/config
> PID: 5530 config.py:515 - DEBUG - Loading config
> PID: 5530 config.py:108 - DEBUG - Loading file:
> /home/jsw/.starcluster/config
> PID: 5530 awsutils.py:54 - DEBUG - creating self._conn w/
> connection_authenticator kwargs = {'path': '/', 'region': None, 'port':
> None, 'is_secure': True}
> PID: 5530 start.py:167 - INFO - Using default cluster template: smallcluster
> PID: 5530 cluster.py:1310 - INFO - Validating cluster template settings...
> PID: 5530 cli.py:184 - DEBUG - Traceback (most recent call last):
> File "/home/jsw/jtriley-StarCluster-dfba6ef/starcluster/cli.py", line
> 160, in main
> sc.execute(args)
> File
> "/home/jsw/jtriley-StarCluster-dfba6ef/starcluster/commands/start.py",
> line 175, in execute
> scluster._validate(validate_running=validate_running)
> File "/home/jsw/jtriley-StarCluster-dfba6ef/starcluster/cluster.py",
> line 1322, in _validate
> self._validate_instance_types()
> File "/home/jsw/jtriley-StarCluster-dfba6ef/starcluster/cluster.py",
> line 1458, in _validate_instance_types
> self.__check_platform(node_image_id, node_instance_type)
> File "/home/jsw/jtriley-StarCluster-dfba6ef/starcluster/cluster.py",
> line 1419, in __check_platform
> image_is_hvm = (image.virtualization_type == "hvm")
> AttributeError: 'Image' object has no attribute 'virtualization_type'
>
> PID: 5530 cli.py:129 - ERROR - Oops! Looks like you've found a bug in
> StarCluster
> PID: 5530 cli.py:130 - ERROR - Debug file written to:
> /tmp/starcluster-debug-jsw.log
> PID: 5530 cli.py:131 - ERROR - Look for lines starting with PID: 5530
> PID: 5530 cli.py:132 - ERROR - Please submit this file, minus any
> private information,
> PID: 5530 cli.py:133 - ERROR - to starcluster at mit.edu
> <mailto:starcluster at mit.edu>
>
>
>
> On Wed, Apr 6, 2011 at 8:09 AM, Justin Riley <justin.t.riley at gmail.com
> <mailto:justin.t.riley at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
> Jeff/Joseph,
>
> Sorry for taking so long to follow up with this but I believe I've
> fixed this issue for good and you should now be able to launch 50+
> node clusters without issue. My original feeling was that the SGE
> install script was at fault, however, after several hours of digging I
> discovered that ssh-keyscan was failing when there were a large number
> of nodes. Long story short this meant that passwordless-ssh wasn't
> being setup fully for all nodes and so the SGE installer script could
> not connect to those nodes to add them to the queue. I found a much
> better way to populate the known_hosts file with all the nodes using
> paramiko instead of ssh-keyscan which is much faster in this case.
>
> If you haven't already please re-run 'python setup.py install' after
> pulling the latest code to test out the latest changes. I've also
> updated StarCluster perform the setup on all nodes concurrently using
> a thread pool so you should notice it's much faster for larger
> clusters. Please let me know if you have issues.
>
> Thanks,
>
> ~Justin
>
> On Wed, Mar 16, 2011 at 1:37 PM, Kyeong Soo (Joseph) Kim
> <kyeongsoo.kim at gmail.com <mailto:kyeongsoo.kim at gmail.com>> wrote:
> > Justin,
> > Please, find attached the said file.
> >
> > Regards,
> > Joseph
> >
> >
> > On Wed, Mar 16, 2011 at 4:38 PM, Justin Riley <jtriley at mit.edu
> <mailto:jtriley at mit.edu>> wrote:
> Joseph,
>
> Great thanks, can you also send me the /opt/sge6/ec2_sge.conf
>> file please?
>
> ~Justin
>
> On 03/16/2011 12:29 PM, Kyeong Soo (Joseph) Kim wrote:
>> >>> Hi Justin,
>> >>>
>> >>> Please, find attached the gzipped tar file of the logfiles under
>> >>> install_logs directory.
>> >>>
>> >>> Note that the configuration is for 25-node (1 master and 24
>> slaves) cluster.
>> >>>
>> >>> Below is the time-sorted listing of log files under the same
>> directory:
>> >>>
>> >>> -rw-r--r-- 1 kks kks 2.9K 2011-03-16 13:23
>> >>> execd_install_node024_2011-03-16_13:23:11.log
>> >>> -rw-r--r-- 1 kks kks 2.9K 2011-03-16 11:13
>> >>> execd_install_node023_2011-03-16_11:13:37.log
>> >>> -rw-r--r-- 1 kks kks 2.9K 2011-03-16 11:13
>> >>> execd_install_node022_2011-03-16_11:13:36.log
>> >>> -rw-r--r-- 1 kks kks 2.9K 2011-03-16 11:13
>> >>> execd_install_node021_2011-03-16_11:13:36.log
>> >>> -rw-r--r-- 1 kks kks 2.9K 2011-03-16 11:13
>> >>> execd_install_node020_2011-03-16_11:13:32.log
>> >>> -rw-r--r-- 1 kks kks 18K 2011-03-16 11:13
>> >>> execd_install_master_2011-03-16_11:13:10.log
>> >>> -rw-r--r-- 1 kks kks 2.9K 2011-03-16 11:13
>> >>> execd_install_node017_2011-03-16_11:13:27.log
>> >>> -rw-r--r-- 1 kks kks 2.9K 2011-03-16 11:13
>> >>> execd_install_node018_2011-03-16_11:13:27.log
>> >>> -rw-r--r-- 1 kks kks 2.9K 2011-03-16 11:13
>> >>> execd_install_node019_2011-03-16_11:13:28.log
>> >>> -rw-r--r-- 1 kks kks 2.9K 2011-03-16 11:13
>> >>> execd_install_node016_2011-03-16_11:13:26.log
>> >>> -rw-r--r-- 1 kks kks 2.9K 2011-03-16 11:13
>> >>> execd_install_node014_2011-03-16_11:13:25.log
>> >>> -rw-r--r-- 1 kks kks 2.9K 2011-03-16 11:13
>> >>> execd_install_node015_2011-03-16_11:13:26.log
>> >>> -rw-r--r-- 1 kks kks 2.9K 2011-03-16 11:13
>> >>> execd_install_node012_2011-03-16_11:13:24.log
>> >>> -rw-r--r-- 1 kks kks 2.9K 2011-03-16 11:13
>> >>> execd_install_node013_2011-03-16_11:13:25.log
>> >>> -rw-r--r-- 1 kks kks 2.9K 2011-03-16 11:13
>> >>> execd_install_node010_2011-03-16_11:13:23.log
>> >>> -rw-r--r-- 1 kks kks 2.9K 2011-03-16 11:13
>> >>> execd_install_node011_2011-03-16_11:13:24.log
>> >>> -rw-r--r-- 1 kks kks 2.9K 2011-03-16 11:13
>> >>> execd_install_node008_2011-03-16_11:13:22.log
>> >>> -rw-r--r-- 1 kks kks 2.9K 2011-03-16 11:13
>> >>> execd_install_node009_2011-03-16_11:13:22.log
>> >>> -rw-r--r-- 1 kks kks 2.9K 2011-03-16 11:13
>> >>> execd_install_node006_2011-03-16_11:13:21.log
>> >>> -rw-r--r-- 1 kks kks 2.9K 2011-03-16 11:13
>> >>> execd_install_node007_2011-03-16_11:13:21.log
>> >>> -rw-r--r-- 1 kks kks 2.9K 2011-03-16 11:13
>> >>> execd_install_node004_2011-03-16_11:13:20.log
>> >>> -rw-r--r-- 1 kks kks 2.9K 2011-03-16 11:13
>> >>> execd_install_node005_2011-03-16_11:13:20.log
>> >>> -rw-r--r-- 1 kks kks 2.9K 2011-03-16 11:13
>> >>> execd_install_node003_2011-03-16_11:13:19.log
>> >>> -rw-r--r-- 1 kks kks 2.9K 2011-03-16 11:13
>> >>> execd_install_node001_2011-03-16_11:13:18.log
>> >>> -rw-r--r-- 1 kks kks 2.9K 2011-03-16 11:13
>> >>> execd_install_node002_2011-03-16_11:13:19.log
>> >>> -rw-r--r-- 1 kks kks 3.1K 2011-03-16 11:13
>> >>> execd_install_master_2011-03-16_11:13:17.log
>> >>> -rw-r--r-- 1 kks kks 8.4K 2011-03-16 11:13
>> >>> qmaster_install_master_2011-03-16_11:13:05.log
>> >>>
>> >>> As you can see, the installation of master has been duplicated
>> and it
>> >>> ended up with master, node001~node023; the top-most log for node024
>> >>> was for the manual addition through "addnode" command later (i.e., 1
>> >>> hour 10 mins after).
>> >>>
>> >>> Even with this slimmed down version of configurations (compared
>> to the
>> >>> original 125-node one), the chances that all nodes are properly
>> >>> installed (i.e., 25 out of 25) were about 50% (last night and this
>> >>> morning, I tried it about 10 times to set total five of 25-node
>> >>> clusters).
>> >>>
>> >>> Regards,
>> >>> Joseph
>> >>>
>> >>>
>> >>> On Wed, Mar 16, 2011 at 3:57 PM, Justin Riley <jtriley at mit.edu
>> <mailto:jtriley at mit.edu>> wrote:
>> >>> Hi Jeff/Joseph,
>> >>>
>> >>> I just requested to up my EC2 instance limit so that I can test
>> things
>> >>> out at this scale and see what the issue is. In the mean time
>> would you
>> >>> mind sending me any logs found in
>> /opt/sge6/default/common/install_logs
>> >>> and also the /opt/sge6/ec2_sge.conf for a failed run?
>> >>>
>> >>> Also if this happens again you could try reinstalling SGE manually
>> >>> assuming all the nodes are up:
>> >>>
>> >>> $ starcluster sshmaster mycluster
>> >>> $ cd /opt/sge6
>> >>> $ ./inst_sge -m -x -auto ./ec2_sge.conf
>> >>>
>> >>> ~Justin
>> >>>
>> >>> On 03/15/2011 06:30 PM, Kyeong Soo (Joseph) Kim wrote:
>> >>>>>> Hi Jeff,
>> >>>>>>
>> >>>>>> I experienced the same thing with my 50-node configuration
>> (c1.xlarge).
>> >>>>>> Out of 50 nodes, only 29 nodes are successfully identified by
>> the SGE.
>> >>>>>>
>> >>>>>> Regards,
>> >>>>>> Joseph
>> >>>>>>
>> >>>>>> On Sat, Mar 5, 2011 at 10:15 PM, Jeff White <jeff at decide.com
>> <mailto:jeff at decide.com>> wrote:
>> >>>>>>> I can frequently reproduce an issue where 'starcluster
>> start' completes
>> >>>>>>> without error, but not all nodes are added to the SGE pool,
>> which I verify
>> >>>>>>> by running 'qconf -sel' on the master. The latest example I
>> have is creating
>> >>>>>>> a 25-node cluster, where only the first 12 nodes are
>> successfully installed.
>> >>>>>>> The remaining instances are running and I can ssh to them
>> but they aren't
>> >>>>>>> running sge_execd. There are only install log files for the
>> first 12 nodes
>> >>>>>>> in /opt/sge6/default/common/install_logs. I have not found
>> any clues in the
>> >>>>>>> starcluster debug log or the logs inside master:/opt/sge6/.
>> >>>>>>>
>> >>>>>>> I am running starcluster development snapshot 8ef48a3
>> downloaded on
>> >>>>>>> 2011-02-15, with the following relevant settings:
>> >>>>>>>
>> >>>>>>> NODE_IMAGE_ID=ami-8cf913e5
>> >>>>>>> NODE_INSTANCE_TYPE = m1.small
>> >>>>>>>
>> >>>>>>> I have seen this behavior with the latest 32-bit and 64-bit
>> starcluster
>> >>>>>>> AMIs. Our workaround is to start a small cluster and
>> progressively add nodes
>> >>>>>>> one at a time, which is time-consuming.
>> >>>>>>>
>> >>>>>>> Has anyone else noticed this and have a better workaround or
>> an idea for a
>> >>>>>>> fix?
>> >>>>>>>
>> >>>>>>> jeff
>> >>>>>>>
>> >>>>>>>
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