Re: [Condor-devel] Condor 7.4.2 bug: mkisofs.bat vs. mkisofs.exe in condor_vm_vmware.pl ?!?!

[Rob <spamrefuse@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

I'm the poster of the original message and I like to add some more
info here.


This is really causing me a big headache after upgrading condor to
most recent stable version 7.4.2 on 300+  Windows XP pool PCs !!

I've been digging slightly deeper into what is going on here.

Between versions 7.2.5 and 7.4.2 a new procedure is used to create
'on-the-fly' CDrom iso images on Windows pool PCs.


7.2.5 : uses  mkisofs.exe  directly

7.4.2 : uses  mkisofs.bat  script, which calls  cdmake.exe


With 7.2.5 the iso image is created fine on a Windows pool PC.

With 7.4.2 the procedure fails and no iso image is created.
While the execution was running on the Windows PC, I have checked
the folder

  C:\condor\execute\dir_1234

in which the VMware configuration "vmnvFAAn_condor.vmx" contains
the lines:

ide1:0.present = "TRUE"
ide1:0.fileName = "isoXYEAAc.iso"
ide1:0.deviceType = "cdrom-image"
ide1:0.autodetect = "TRUE"


but the actual iso file itself  "isoXYEAAc.iso"  is missing and hence has
not been created.


So far I've been unable to intercept the process of iso-image making,
so I don't know exactly where it is going wrong. I suspect the call
in  mkisofs.bat  to be wrong:

cdmake -q -j %9 %6 %1


I hope somebody can help figure out what is going wrong here.
If this is a bug in a stable release, it is a very nasty one!

Regards,
Rob.