perfSONAR User Q&A and Other Discussion

[Valentin Vidic <>]

On Wed, Jan 03, 2018 at 07:23:48AM +0900, dan dev wrote:
> I am installing PerSONAR 4.0.2 on Ubuntu 16.04.3 LTS following the website:
> http://docs.perfsonar.net/install_debian.html . This problem is coming on
> two machines now. After running the command apt-get install
> perfsonar-toolkit
> following erorr is coming
> 
> perfsonar-configure_nic_parameters.service - LSB: pS-Performance Toolkit
> script to configure the NIC parameters
>    Loaded: loaded (/etc/init.d/perfsonar-configure_nic_parameters; bad;
> vendor preset: enabled)
>    Active: *failed *(Result: exit-code) since Wed 2018-01-03 06:04:14 +08;
> 5min ago
>      Docs: man:systemd-sysv-generator(8)
> 
> Jan 03 06:04:14 SmartX-Box-MY perfsonar-configure_nic_parameters[1127]:  *
> Setting txqueuelen for em5 to 10000...
> Jan 03 06:04:14 SmartX-Box-MY perfsonar-configure_nic_parameters[1127]:
> ...done.
> Jan 03 06:04:14 SmartX-Box-MY perfsonar-configure_nic_parameters[1127]:  *
> Disabling TCP offload for interface br-ex...
> Jan 03 06:04:14 SmartX-Box-MY perfsonar-configure_nic_parameters[1127]:
> ...done.
> Jan 03 06:04:14 SmartX-Box-MY perfsonar-configure_nic_parameters[1127]:  *
> Setting txqueuelen for br-ex to 10000...
> Jan 03 06:04:14 SmartX-Box-MY perfsonar-configure_nic_parameters[1127]:
> ...done.
> Jan 03 06:04:14 SmartX-Box-MY systemd[1]:
> perfsonar-configure_nic_parameters.service: Control process exited,
> code=exited status=1
> Jan 03 06:04:14 SmartX-Box-MY systemd[1]: *Failed to start LSB:
> pS-Performance Toolkit script to configure the NIC parameters.*
> Jan 03 06:04:14 SmartX-Box-MY systemd[1]:
> perfsonar-configure_nic_parameters.service: Unit entered failed state.
> Jan 03 06:04:14 SmartX-Box-MY systemd[1]:
> perfsonar-configure_nic_parameters.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'.
> 
> I dont know why this error is coming. Could you help me please?

It seems to be having problems setting up the parameters on some network
interfaces.  Could you share your network configuration?

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