[Beowulf] [xcat-user] Cannot run offload codes with Intel Xeon Phi cards deployed via xCAT

[Andrew Howard]

Did you configure the cards with micctrl like the docs tell you to? Stop
mpss, run micctrl --initdefaults, then start MPSS. Otherwise micuser won't
exist.

-Andy


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On Wed, Aug 21, 2013 at 12:05 AM, Christopher Samuel
<samuel at unimelb.edu.au>wrote:

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> ...and of course within a few minutes of sending that I've found that
> it appears xCAT does not create the micuser in the passwd file it
> deploys to the Phi's.
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> This means the /bin/coi_daemon on the Phi cards cannot start as the
> init script runs it with the "--coiuser=micuser" argument so it fails
> with:
>
> [root at barcoo062-mic0 /root]# /etc/init.d/coi start
>  Starting COI server... [ OK ]
> [root at barcoo062-mic0 /root]# Can't drop priviledges to requested user
> 'micuser'
>
> So xCAT folks, any ideas why that user would be missing?
>
> All the best,
> Chris
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