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[Alexander Gall <>]

On Tue, 27 Jun 2023 22:39:34 +0200, mc36 <> said:

> so the installer now works but the recovery still refuses to do a thing 
> with an error from the onie below:

I told you many times that the recovery iso *is not an ONIE
installer*. Don't use it with onie-install.  It goes on a USB drive to
be booted from. But since the RARE ONIE installer works you can just
forget about that.

> on the console afterwards i can do tna-inst-exp but the python middleware 
> seemingly does not connects...

The BSP takes fairly long to initialize (Asterfusion is working on a
fix for that). Then there is a long-standing issue with the gRPC
server that causes the connection from the forwarder to fail
occasionally. This happens when you see the following in the bfswd
log:

2023-06-29 08:50:18.456173 BF_BFRT ERROR - BF_RT_SERVER:addConnection:835 
Can't have two clients with the same client id Invalid arguments
2023-06-29 08:50:18.456332 BF_BFRT ERROR - BF_RT_SERVER:StreamChannel:4232 
Error during Adding connection for client_id 0
2023-06-29 08:50:18.456916 BF_BFRT ERROR - BF_RT_SERVER:addConnection:835 
Can't have two clients with the same client id Invalid arguments
2023-06-29 08:50:18.457076 BF_BFRT ERROR - BF_RT_SERVER:StreamChannel:4232 
Error during Adding connection for client_id 0
2023-06-29 08:50:18.458172 BF_BFRT ERROR - StreamChannel:4224 Client 0 is 
already subscribed with this channel. Please stop sending subscribe msgs
2023-06-29 08:50:18.458339 BF_BFRT ERROR - StreamChannel:4224 Client 0 is 
already subscribed with this channel. Please stop sending subscribe msgs
2023-06-29 08:50:18.458817 BF_BFRT ERROR - StreamChannel:4224 Client 0 is 
already subscribed with this channel. Please stop sending subscribe msgs

In that case you have to restart the bffwd process. Did you try that?

I have the newest rare-nix installed on one of the boxes at CERN:

GVA0081#tna-list-installed                                                    
                                                                              
                                                                              
                                                                              
                                  
Generation Current Release Git Tag                    KernelID       Kernel 
Release            Platform                   Install date
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
         1         2       release-1-142-ga9bafad     Debian11_0     
5.10.0-8-amd64            asterfusion_x312p          2023-03-17 
16:18:57.299330004 +0100
         2         2       release-1-142-ga13867c     Debian11_0     
5.10.0-8-amd64            asterfusion_x312p          2023-04-04 
11:05:28.578534341 +0200
         3         2       release-1-144-g0108414     Debian11_0     
5.10.0-8-amd64            asterfusion_x312p          2023-04-13 
16:33:37.765368189 +0200
         4         2       release-1-144-g0108414-fre Debian11_0     
5.10.0-8-amd64            asterfusion_x312p          2023-04-13 
16:50:49.850158892 +0200
         5         2       release-1-145-gf189461     Debian11_0     
5.10.0-8-amd64            asterfusion_x312p          2023-04-15 
10:11:50.588383510 +0200
         6         2       release-1-145-gf189461-fre Debian11_0     
5.10.0-8-amd64            asterfusion_x312p          2023-04-15 
10:23:39.299266082 +0200
         7 *       2       release-1-158-g677ad46     Debian11_0     
5.10.0-8-amd64            asterfusion_x312p          2023-06-29 
08:48:42.371894871 +0200

It runs the original Debian from the ONIE installer. I don't see any
problems with DHCP or serial ports (regular DHCP in the P4L, serial
connected to console server at 115200 8N1). Sorry but I really don't
have the time to go through all of your mails. Arbitrary upgrades of
Debian packages should not affect the RARE stuff since that all comes
from Nix, but it can break stuff around it. In that case, I'm afraid
you're on your own.

WRT the device not powering down, maybe you have to do that from the BMC:

Power OFF,  cmd> i a
Power ON, cmd> i b
Read PSU, cmd> i c

Please stop sending me so many messages.

-- 
Alex


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