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RHEL Scheduler Provisioning Fails

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Difficulty
2/5
Estimated time
1-3 hours
Newbie friendliness
45/100
Issue type
Bug
Clarity
Clearly specified
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
ruby

Research direction

Start at specs/default/chef/site-cookbooks/gridengine/recipes/scheduler.rb line 32 and review the package-install branch for RHEL alongside the AlmaLinux/CentOS/Rocky cases. Use the Jetpack.log error and the RHEL 7_9 scheduler image details to reproduce or validate the failure. Done means provisioning no longer fails while setting up EPEL on RHEL.

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Description

Provisioning version cyclecloud-gridengine 2.0.13 fails on a RHEL scheduler due to the scheduler.rb file line 32 where it tries to install the epel-release package. Jetpack.log error messages:

2022-09-12 18:16:48,120 ERROR    Software configuration failed: Chef::Exceptions::Package: yum_package[epel-release] (gridengine::scheduler line 32) had an error: Chef::Exceptions::Package: No candidate version available for epel-release
2022-09-12 18:16:48,120 ERROR    Recommendation: Review local log files on the VM at /opt/cycle/jetpack/logs

The prior change to this file for almalinux support changed the switch from 'centos' to 'rhel'. In moving from version 2.0.11 to 2.0.12+ this code now executes on a rhel VM whereas previously it was disabled. However, to install the EPEL repos on Red Hat the repository must be added manually instead of installing the epel-release package as in Alma/CentOS/Rocky.

Cluster Information:
cyclecloud-gridengine version: 2.0.13
scheduler image: RedHat:RHEL:7_9:latest
gridengine version: 2011.11j (DRMAA Java API added)
base template: altair-grid-engine (we are using a customized template built off the base altair template)

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