The failure seems to be happening when creating the blobstore but just to reduce variables, can you try with the following env_vars: env_vars: - CRT_TIMEOUT=300 - CRT_CREDIT_EP_CTX=0 And simplify by r

Did you manage to get the engine log with DD_MASK=all, that will give us more information about why the engine is not completing start-up (and why you don’t have any joined ranks reported by "dmg syst

The engine is actually not starting, in the server log you should see a message containing "…started on rank 0" and then if you run "dmg system query [--verbose]" it should report at least one "Joined

This is unusual, normally the name resolution works. After talking to a colleague (Mike), we suspect that the IsLocalAddr() test is failing to match the AP address with a local address, with the resul

Can you try with nr_xs_helpers: 0 in the config please, you will need to reformat.

Hello, The format is completing and the engine process is being spawned, now we need to look at the engine log which is specified in the server config file (consult the admin guide for more details: h

Can you please try with 2M hugepagesize I’m not sure we have much test coverage using 1G hugepages and there may be some built-in assumptions that might cause problems if using them. Regards, Tom

Hello, In your server log file there are some error messages about requested huge pages, to start off with I would recommend setting nr_hugepages: 4096 and targets: 8 in the server config file (daos_s

Try running the utils/setup_daos_admin.sh script as sudo. The admin binary should be moved to /usr/bin/ with setuid. Remove executable bit from install/bin/daos_admin. These steps are performed by the

Hello Neale, I’m happy to work with you directly on this to get you past any hurdles if you would like, my e-mail is tom.nabarro@.... The TRANSIENT_FAILURE does indicate some local network relat

I think getting the most basic configuration working is probably the best way forward given that dmg is not connecting, try with an empty config file (discovery mode) on a single host and on that same

Hello Neale, First of all is there any chance you can try using a more recent version, 1.1.3 for example. How are you launching daos_server? Using the start command directly from the commandline or sy

If NVMe is not required then try setting "nr_hugepages: 0" in the global section of the server configuration file. Regards, Tom

Hello Alistair, Just a follow-on from Kris' response. If your system is NUMA-aware then you can use "dmg config generate -l <hostname> -a <hostname>" to auto generate a recommended config file. Ranks

Given a host set with homogenous hardware configuration it should now be possible to generate an optimal server configuration file for DAOS using the command ‘dmg config generate’, more details are in

We have recently learned of a serious issue affecting systems with Apache Pass DCPM modules. The ipmctl utility (versions 02.00.00.3809 through 02.00.00.3816) was released with a bug that can cause th

I realise that the problem is the bdev_exclude devices are already bound to UIO at the time that DAOS starts and are not actively unbound by SPDK setup script. 0000:00:04.1 (8086 2021): Already using

Hello Anton Doesn’t look like the bdev_exclude list is being honoured, I’m on leave today but will verify behavior on master tomorrow and supply fix if broken. Regards, Tom Nabarro – DCG/ESAD M: +44 (

Hello Anton helper_log_file and bdev_exclude parameters are both global parameters and should be included in the top section (just under control_log_file), see utils/config/daos_server.yml for referen

Bdev_exclude should work in this situation, could you please share the server config file and enable and share the privileged helper log file by setting "helper_log_file: /tmp/daos_admin.log” (or simi