XCAT_2.6.2_Release_Notes

These are changes since the 2.6.1 release.

New Function, Changes in Behavior, and Bugs Fixed in 2.6.2 Since 2.6.1

• A new xCAT Linux deps tarball was built to fix the plugin load errors on Centos6/Redhat6 x86* - bug 3380912
• makedns needs the /etc/resolv.conf on management node has the mn's IP address specified as nameserver (from site.master) and cluster domain ( from site.domain) as a search path. If the compute nodes also needs to have name resolution to hosts outside the cluster, add the external nameservers addresses to the site table forwarders attribute.

Known Issues and Work Arounds

• "makedhcp -n" reports error 'Can't call method "brsft" ...' - bug 3323752

• makedns can not work on SLES - bug 3365678 - SuSE bugzilla 73119

  workaround - run "chown root:name /var/lib/named" on management node. Fixed in xCAT svn truck revision 10094.

• makedns can currently only handle domain names with at least one "dot" in them. For example a doman of cluster.net is valid, but a domain of just cluster is not. Defect

3384808 is opened to fix.