Thursday, October 21, 2010

OPSI nightmares on Windows 2008 R2 64-bit

Back in September I worked for five days trying to make OPSI work for our Windows 2008 64-bit reference machine and failed miserably.

I reached a point where I wanted to uninstall OPSI and install it again from the right mount share. The problem is that uninstall process got the machine wedged and impossible to login through RDP. We finally figured out that we had to remove two registry keys to allow the machine to reach the login page (We used IPMI and safe mode to do this).

I will just list some comments that might help somebody searching for answers related to this. I won't put too much effort on making it presentable or coherent.

NOTE: many many thanks for cshields for having helped me through those days!

The versions (I think) we are using are:

The version for staging-opsi is 3.4.0.0 and I don't see preloginloader installed on the win64-ix-ref.build.mozilla.org machine. Nevertheless when I click on the package I get 3.4 v27mozilla2.
From bug 596735:
Blue screen before reaching login dialog
What I could see through IPMI: "Opsi Login Blocker: service request failed"
I asked on the OPSI forums and I got this answer:

Re: Cannot uninstall on Windows 2008 x64

Beitragvon wolfbardo » 17 Sep 2010, 08:19
Hello Armen,
armenzg hat geschrieben:The machine is MS2008 R2 x64 with OPSI versions 3.4.0.0 and preloginloader package 3.4 v27mozilla2.
In this version there some issues in the 64-Bit handling of Files and Registry

You should update your opsi-version to 3.4.0.14 and the opsi-packages
http://download.uib.de/opsi3.4/produkte ... 8.4-1.opsi
http://download.uib.de/opsi3.4/produkte ... .4-69.opsi

Also have a look at opsi 4.0 Release Candidate (viewtopic.php?f=10&t=1747)

armenzg hat geschrieben:
What could I try?
Delete the follwoing registry-Keys
Code: Alles auswählen
[Registry_vista_del_loginblocker] deletekey [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Authentication\Credential Providers\{d2028e19-82fe-44c6-ad64-51497c97a02a}] deletekey [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Authentication\Credential Provider Filters\{d2028e19-82fe-44c6-ad64-51497c97a02a    }]
regards
bardo wolf
The key was to login with IPMI on safe mode and remove those two registry keys.
After that the machine was good almost good (RDP was not working - jabba fixed this for me in bug 597573).

I also got another machine wedged in the exact same way but not from trying to uninstall OPSI but from forgetting to resume the opsiclientd service.

In bug 596735 comment 12 I mentioned:

This morning I found win64-ix-ref in the same condition and it is *not* from uninstalling OPSI but from having forgotten to resume last night opsiclientd service (which is mentioned here https://forum.uib.de/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=939#p4694).
After we fixed the prelogin issue bhearsum tried to mount from the right OPSI mount but he was not succesful either:
I tried a few things without success:
- preloginloader 3.4-27mozilla2 and 3.4-30 -- These versions successfully
talked to the config server but failed to mount the SMB share. Errors were like
this:
[5] [Oct 20 09:43:11] [action_processor_starter.exe] (2250,
'WNetCancelConnection2', 'The network connection could not be found.')
(Windows.pyo|237)
[4] [Oct 20 09:43:11] [action_processor_starter.exe] Mounting
'\\production-opsi\opt_pcbin' to 'P:' (Windows.pyo|239)
[2] [Oct 20 09:43:12] [action_processor_starter.exe] Cannot mount: (1312,
'WNetAddConnection2', 'A specified logon session does not exist. It may already
have been terminated.') (Windows.pyo|253)
[1] [Oct 20 09:43:12] [action_processor_starter.exe] Traceback:
(Logger.pyo|647)
[1] [Oct 20 09:43:12] [action_processor_starter.exe] line 71 in
'' in file 'action_processor_starter.py' (Logger.pyo|647)
[1] [Oct 20 09:43:12] [action_processor_starter.exe] line 254 in 'mount'
in file 'OPSI\System\Windows.pyo' (Logger.pyo|647)
[1] [Oct 20 09:43:12] [action_processor_starter.exe] ==>>> Cannot mount:
(1312, 'WNetAddConnection2', 'A specified logon session does not exist. It may
already have been terminated.') (action_processor_starter.py|83)
[6] [Oct 20 09:43:12] [action_processor_starter.exe] Executing jsonrpc method
'setStatusMessage' (JSONRPC.pyo|225)
[6] [Oct 20 09:43:12] [action_processor_starter.exe] Options: {'params':
"Failed to process action requests: Cannot mount: (1312, 'WNetAddConnection2',
'A specified logon session does not exist. It may already have been
terminated.')"} (JSONRPC.pyo|229)
[7] [Oct 20 09:43:12] [action_processor_starter.exe] Appending param: Failed
to process action requests: Cannot mount: (1312, 'WNetAddConnection2', 'A
specified logon session does not exist. It may already have been terminated.'),
type: (JSONRPC.pyo|238)
[7] [Oct 20 09:43:12] [action_processor_starter.exe] jsonrpc string:
{"params":["Failed to process action requests: Cannot mount: (1312,
'WNetAddConnection2', 'A specified logon session does not exist. It may already
have been terminated.')"],"id":1,"method":"setStatusMessage"}
(JSONRPC.pyo|248)
[7] [Oct 20 09:43:12] [action_processor_starter.exe] requesting:
'https://localhost:4441/opsiclientd', query '{"params":["Failed to process
action requests: Cannot mount: (1312, 'WNetAddConnection2', 'A specified logon
session does not exist. It may already have been
terminated.')"],"id":1,"method":"setStatusMessage"}' (JSONRPC.pyo|250)
[6] [Oct 20 09:43:12] [action_processor_starter.exe] Using method POST
(JSONRPC.pyo|283)

I also tried preloginloader 3.4-69, which failed to event connect the config server -- claimed that it timed out.
So yeah... you can understand if I ever say I don't like OPSI and suggest you never to get close to it.


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