perfSONAR User Q&A and Other Discussion

[dan dev <>]

Hello,

The hardware of the system used for perfSONAR's installation is as below, 

 

Architecture:          x86_64

CPU op-mode(s):        32-bit, 64-bit

Byte Order:            Little Endian

CPU(s):                4

On-line CPU(s) list:   0-3

Thread(s) per core:    1

Core(s) per socket:    4

Socket(s):             1

NUMA node(s):          1

Vendor ID:             GenuineIntel

CPU family:            6

Model:                 45

Model name:            Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2609 0 @ 2.40GHz

Stepping:              7

CPU MHz:               2399.965

BogoMIPS:              4800.14

Hypervisor vendor:     Xen

Virtualization type:   none

L1d cache:             32K

L1i cache:             32K

L2 cache:              256K

L3 cache:              10240K

NUMA node0 CPU(s):     0-3

After running the command 'systemctl -l start perfsonar-configure_nic_parameters.service', I got this message,

Job for perfsonar-configure_nic_parameters.service failed because the control process exited with error code. See "systemctl status perfsonar-configure_nic_parameters.service" and "journalctl -xe" for details.

Then the command 'systemctl status perfsonar-configure_nic_parameters.service" shows this result;

● 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 2018-01-10 14:51:30 KST; 58s ago

     Docs: man:systemd-sysv-generator(8)

  Process: 6909 ExecStart=/etc/init.d/perfsonar-configure_nic_parameters start (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE)

Jan 10 14:51:29 Box perfsonar-configure_nic_parameters[6909]:  * Setting txqueuelen for eth1 to 10000...

Jan 10 14:51:29 Box perfsonar-configure_nic_parameters[6909]:    ...done.

Jan 10 14:51:30 Box perfsonar-configure_nic_parameters[6909]:  * Disabling TCP offload for interface br-ex...

Jan 10 14:51:30 Box perfsonar-configure_nic_parameters[6909]:    ...done.

Jan 10 14:51:30 Box perfsonar-configure_nic_parameters[6909]:  * Setting txqueuelen for br-ex to 10000...

Jan 10 14:51:30 Box perfsonar-configure_nic_parameters[6909]:    ...done.

Jan 10 14:51:30 Box systemd[1]: perfsonar-configure_nic_parameters.service: Control process exited, code=exited status=1

Jan 10 14:51:30 Box systemd[1]: Failed to start LSB: pS-Performance Toolkit script to configure the NIC parameters.

Jan 10 14:51:30 Box systemd[1]: perfsonar-configure_nic_parameters.service: Unit entered failed state.

Jan 10 14:51:30 Box systemd[1]: perfsonar-configure_nic_parameters.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'.

"journalctl -xe' shows this result (first few lines);

Jan 10 14:59:00 BoxNetworkManager[1860]: <info>  [1515563940.1774] device (eth3): state change: ip-config -> failed (reason 'ip-config-unavailable') [70 120 5]

Jan 10 14:59:00 BoxNetworkManager[1860]: <warn>  [1515563940.1794] device (eth3): Activation: failed for connection 'Wired connection 2'

Jan 10 14:59:00 BoxNetworkManager[1860]: <info>  [1515563940.1810] device (eth3): state change: failed -> disconnected (reason 'none') [120 30 0]

Jan 10 14:59:00 Boxavahi-daemon[1869]: Withdrawing address record for fe80::a88a:1f24:a15c:6c8 on eth3.

Jan 10 14:59:00 Boxavahi-daemon[1869]: Leaving mDNS multicast group on interface eth3.IPv6 with address fe80::a88a:1f24:a15c:6c8.

Jan 10 14:59:00 Boxavahi-daemon[1869]: Interface eth3.IPv6 no longer relevant for mDNS.

Jan 10 14:59:00 BoxNetworkManager[1860]: <info>  [1515563940.1996] policy: auto-activating connection 'Wired connection 2'

Jan 10 14:59:00 BoxNetworkManager[1860]: <info>  [1515563940.2042] device (eth3): Activation: starting connection 'Wired connection 2' (495648c4-305c-3e3f-8344-409588a7bd14)

Jan 10 14:59:00 BoxNetworkManager[1860]: <info>  [1515563940.2048] device (eth3): state change: disconnected -> prepare (reason 'none') [30 40 0]

Jan 10 14:59:00 BoxNetworkManager[1860]: <info>  [1515563940.2057] device (eth3): state change: prepare -> config (reason 'none') [40 50 0]

Jan 10 14:59:00 BoxNetworkManager[1860]: <info>  [1515563940.2528] device (eth3): state change: config -> ip-config (reason 'none') [50 70 0]

Jan 10 14:59:00 BoxNetworkManager[1860]: <info>  [1515563940.2534] dhcp4 (eth3): activation: beginning transaction (timeout in 45 seconds)

Jan 10 14:59:00 BoxNetworkManager[1860]: <info>  [1515563940.2954] dhcp4 (eth3): dhclient started with pid 10542

Jan 10 14:59:00 Boxdhclient[10542]: DHCPDISCOVER on eth3 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 3 (xid=0xc9950229)

Jan 10 14:59:01 Boxavahi-daemon[1869]: Joining mDNS multicast group on interface eth3.IPv6 with address fe80::a88a:1f24:a15c:6c8.

Jan 10 14:59:01 Boxavahi-daemon[1869]: New relevant interface eth3.IPv6 for mDNS.

Jan 10 14:59:01 Boxavahi-daemon[1869]: Registering new address record for fe80::a88a:1f24:a15c:6c8 on eth3.*.

Jan 10 14:59:03 Boxdhclient[10542]: DHCPDISCOVER on eth3 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 8 (xid=0xc9950229)

Jan 10 14:59:08 BoxNetworkManager[1860]: <warn>  [1515563948.1391] dhcp4 (enp0s29u1u1u5): request timed out

Jan 10 14:59:08 BoxNetworkManager[1860]: <info>  [1515563948.1392] dhcp4 (enp0s29u1u1u5): state changed unknown -> timeout

Jan 10 14:59:08 BoxNetworkManager[1860]: <info>  [1515563948.1720] dhcp4 (enp0s29u1u1u5): canceled DHCP transaction, DHCP client pid 10464

Jan 10 14:59:08 BoxNetworkManager[1860]: <info>  [1515563948.1721] dhcp4 (enp0s29u1u1u5): state changed timeout -> done

Jan 10 14:59:08 BoxNetworkManager[1860]: <info>  [1515563948.1729] device (enp0s29u1u1u5): state change: ip-config -> failed (reason 'ip-config-unavailable') [70 120 5]

Jan 10 14:59:08 BoxNetworkManager[1860]: <warn>  [1515563948.1740] device (enp0s29u1u1u5): Activation: failed for connection 'Wired connection 1'

Jan 10 14:59:08 BoxNetworkManager[1860]: <info>  [1515563948.1779] device (enp0s29u1u1u5): state change: failed -> disconnected (reason 'none') [120 30 0]

Jan 10 14:59:08 Boxavahi-daemon[1869]: Withdrawing address record for fe80::e5a0:55:4abf:1e05 on enp0s29u1u1u5.

Jan 10 14:59:08 Boxavahi-daemon[1869]: Leaving mDNS multicast group on interface enp0s29u1u1u5.IPv6 with address fe80::e5a0:55:4abf:1e05.

Jan 10 14:59:08 Boxavahi-daemon[1869]: Interface enp0s29u1u1u5.IPv6 no longer relevant for mDNS.

Jan 10 14:59:08 Boxkernel: net_ratelimit: 2 callbacks suppressed

Jan 10 14:59:08 Boxkernel: cdc_ether 2-1.1.5:1.0 enp0s29u1u1u5: kevent 12 may have been dropped

Jan 10 14:59:08 Boxkernel: cdc_ether 2-1.1.5:1.0 enp0s29u1u1u5: kevent 12 may have been dropped

Jan 10 14:59:08 Boxkernel: cdc_ether 2-1.1.5:1.0 enp0s29u1u1u5: kevent 12 may have been dropped

Jan 10 14:59:08 Boxkernel: cdc_ether 2-1.1.5:1.0 enp0s29u1u1u5: kevent 12 may have been dropped

Jan 10 14:59:08 Boxkernel: cdc_ether 2-1.1.5:1.0 enp0s29u1u1u5: kevent 12 may have been dropped

Jan 10 14:59:08 Boxkernel: cdc_ether 2-1.1.5:1.0 enp0s29u1u1u5: kevent 12 may have been dropped

Jan 10 14:59:08 Boxkernel: cdc_ether 2-1.1.5:1.0 enp0s29u1u1u5: kevent 12 may have been dropped

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Regards,

On Tue, Jan 9, 2018 at 6:53 PM, Antoine Delvaux <> wrote:

Hello Danny,

Can you share with us some details about the hardware of the system you're using to run this perfSONAR installation? The perfsonar-configure_nic_parameters script sometimes gives error with some virtualisation technologies that don't give access to fine tuning the NIC parameters.

Can you also try to run `systemctl -l start perfsonar-configure_nic_parameters.service` to see if you can get more output of that command?

Thanks,

Antoine.

> Le 9 janv. 2018 à 05:16, Danny <> a écrit :
>
> hI,
> I am using Ubuntu 16.04.3 LTS.
> After running the  the installation script for perfSONAR toolkit "apt-get
> install perfsonar-toolkit" I have received following errors,
>
> 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 Tue 2018-01-09 14:02:54 KST; 10ms
> ago
>     Docs: man:systemd-sysv-generator(8)
>  Process: 1727 ExecStart=/etc/init.d/perfsonar-configure_nic_parameters start
> (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE)
>
> Jan 09 14:02:54 SmartX-Box-CHULA perfsonar-configure_nic_parameters[1727]:
> *...
> Jan 09 14:02:54 SmartX-Box-CHULA perfsonar-configure_nic_parameters[1727]:
> ...
> Jan 09 14:02:54 SmartX-Box-CHULA perfsonar-configure_nic_parameters[1727]:
> *...
> Jan 09 14:02:54 SmartX-Box-CHULA perfsonar-configure_nic_parameters[1727]:
> ...
> Jan 09 14:02:54 SmartX-Box-CHULA perfsonar-configure_nic_parameters[1727]:
> *...
> Jan 09 14:02:54 SmartX-Box-CHULA perfsonar-configure_nic_parameters[1727]:
> ...
> Jan 09 14:02:54 SmartX-Box-CHULA systemd[1]:
> perfsonar-configure_nic_paramet...1
> Jan 09 14:02:54 SmartX-Box-CHULA systemd[1]: Failed to start LSB:
> pS-Perform....
> Jan 09 14:02:54 SmartX-Box-CHULA systemd[1]:
> perfsonar-configure_nic_paramet....
> Jan 09 14:02:54 SmartX-Box-CHULA systemd[1]:
> perfsonar-configure_nic_paramet....
> Hint: Some lines were ellipsized, use -l to show in full.
> dpkg: error processing package perfsonar-toolkit (--configure):
> subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
> Setting up psutils (1.17.dfsg-2) ...
> Setting up python-django-guardian (1.4.1-1) ...
> Setting up python-flup (1.0.2-5) ...
> Setting up python-markdown (2.6.6-1) ...
> Setting up python-pysnmp4-apps (0.3.2-1) ...
> Setting up python-pysnmp4-mibs (0.1.3-1) ...
> Setting up python3-pyinotify (0.9.6-0fakesync1) ...
> setting up sysstat (11.2.0-1ubuntu0.2) ...
> locale: Cannot set LC_ALL to default locale: No such file or directory
>
> Creating config file /etc/default/sysstat with new version
> update-alternatives: using /usr/bin/sar.sysstat to provide /usr/bin/sar (sar)
> in auto mode
> insserv: warning: script 'K01start_ovs.sh' missing LSB tags and overrides
> insserv: warning: script 'start_ovs.sh' missing LSB tags and overrides
> Processing triggers for libc-bin (2.23-0ubuntu9) ...
> Processing triggers for systemd (229-4ubuntu21) ...
> Processing triggers for ureadahead (0.100.0-19) ...
> Processing triggers for dbus (1.10.6-1ubuntu3.3) ...
> Processing triggers for pscheduler-server (1.0.2-1) ...
> insserv: warning: script 'K01start_ovs.sh' missing LSB tags and overrides
> insserv: warning: script 'start_ovs.sh' missing LSB tags and overrides
> insserv: warning: script 'K01start_ovs.sh' missing LSB tags and overrides
> insserv: warning: script 'start_ovs.sh' missing LSB tags and overrides
> insserv: warning: script 'K01start_ovs.sh' missing LSB tags and overrides
> insserv: warning: script 'start_ovs.sh' missing LSB tags and overrides
> insserv: warning: script 'K01start_ovs.sh' missing LSB tags and overrides
> insserv: warning: script 'start_ovs.sh' missing LSB tags and overrides
> Errors were encountered while processing:
> perfsonar-toolkit
> E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
>
>
> Can you please help in understanding and solving this error?
>
> Regards,

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