Quattor 14.6.0 released

Written
04 July 2014
Author
James Adams

Packages are available from our yum repository, both the RPMs and the repository metadata are signed with my GPG key.

As always, many thanks to everyone who contributed!

The next release should be 14.8.0, the backlog for which is already huge.

Main New Features and Fixes

  • AII can install both 13.1.x (SPMA-managed) and 14.x (YUM-managed) machines: this is now the recommended and only supported version of AII. A site updating to 14.6.0 is recommended to upgrade its AII server first: this is the only version of AII capable of installing 14.6.0 machines.

  • ncm-cdispd now properly reexecutes failed components every time a new profile is received, even though their configuration was not changed. Previous versions were not doing this and this could result in a machine staying in a partially configured state.

  • Grid template library also received a significant number of fixes for UMD-3 services. One of them is related to ncm-xrootd being blocked during restart of xrootd services with the effect of stalling ncm-ncd and thus preventing further deployment (until the ncm-ncd time out) and letting xrootd stopped.

Known issues

  • ncm-xrootd: the fix describes above unfortunately contains a mistake that let xrootd disk instances unmanaged by xrootd startup script after executing the component (see https://github.com/quattor/configuration-modules-grid/pull/29). If you run into this problem, you may want to get the fixed version (that will be part of 14.8) from http://quattorsrv.lal.in2p3.fr/packages/site/ncm-xrootd-14.6.1-SNAPSHOT20140716143750.noarch.rpm: this will require you to edit cfg/quattor/14.6.0/components/xrootd/config.pan to update the RPM version.

Changelog

CAF

aii

cdp-listend

configuration-modules-core

configuration-modules-grid

ncm-cdispd

ncm-lib-blockdevices

ncm-ncd

template-library-core

template-library-examples

template-library-standard