Rsync error when Implementing Mutliple TFTP servers

[PatinMT]

Hello - I’m working on re-implementing the “location patch” with Multiple TFTP servers for different lan segments.

When I get to this command on one of my remote nodes:

[CODE]$ rsync -rv 192.168.1.29::tftpboot/ /tftpboot

receiving file list … done
boot.txt
memdisk
pxelinux.0
vesamenu.c32
fog/bg.legacy.png
fog/bg.png
fog/images/init.gz
rsync: stat “/tftpboot/pxelinux.cfg” failed: Stale NFS file handle (116)
fog/kernel/bzImage
fog/memtest/memtest
pxelinux.cfg/

sent 39350 bytes received 26796 bytes 132292.00 bytes/sec
total size is 18179419 speedup is 274.84
rsync error: some files/attrs were not transferred (see previous errors) (code 23) at main.c(1526) [generator=3.0.7]
[/CODE]

I’ve done some searching for “Stale NFS file handle (116)” but not getting any clear answer to the issue.

Remote site: Ubuntu 10.10, Fog 0.31 on bare metal
Master: Ubuntu 8.04.3 LTS on ESXi

Where to start troubleshooting this one?

Thanks, Pat

[Lee Rowlett]

try to unmount and remount the pxelinux.cfg share

umount /tftpboot/pxelinux.cfg
mount /tftpboot/pxelinux.cfg

[PatinMT]

Thanks Lee, that solved it, the next time I ran the rsync it worked.

Now this thread may take a turn, and not fit the category, but here goes.

This remote site: Ubuntu 10.10 on bare metal…seems to refuse to run tftpd. I’ve looked at various other threads and sites, and have concluded that:
ps ax | grep tftpd
should show me that the tftpd process is running (or perhaps in.tftpd) at any case I do not see it.
Further a command of:
tftp RemoteServerIP get pxelinux.0
From even a windows client, should cause a file transfer to initiate, but all I get is “Connect Request Failed”

From my understanding it is the fog install that installs / starts tftpd service, so I re-ran the setup. With the rsync command and tftpboot/pxelinux.0, re-running install throws error about that being in a read only state…so I umount, then re-run ./installfog.sh, but still no joy, I cannot connect to the tftp service, nor see a tftpd process running on my remote site.

What did I miss here?

Thanks, Pat

[PatinMT]

Just an added note…

I do have a symlink set up for var/lib/tftpboot -> /tftpboot

Pat

[PatinMT]

As a tech support professional my self, I love it when people write back to say that they’ve solved their own problem:

apt-get install tftpd-hpa

I was wrong to assume that fog (0.31) was installing tftpd for me.

We now have fog joy once again!

[Lee Rowlett]

Hi PatinMT,

FOGServer does but if you set it up as a Node it will not unless you modify the installer for node installation. Might be worth doing so if you have future setups?

Well done in solving your own issue and posting the solution.