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From BCCD 3.0
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Frequently Encountered Problems
This page lists some of the most frequently encountered problems in starting and maintaining a BCCD cluster. It is by no means an exhaustive list, so if you have an issue not listed here, send an email to 
and we'll do our best to help you work through the problem.
My network card isn't recognized
In this situation, the BCCD probably doesn't contain the kernel drivers or firmware for your card. The best thing to do here would be to send an email to , giving us the vendor and model number of your network card as listed by lspci.
PXE booting isn't working
The network booted nodes are inaccessible
More than likely you're running into the NFS/AUFS dead lock issue (#457). This is a known issue that we haven't been able to fix yet. Simply restart the affected nodes until they boot all the way to a login prompt.
bccd-snarfhosts is giving me an inconsistent hosts file
The head node's hostname is no_dhcp
If your head node (or any other node for that matter) is marked as no_dhcp, there were issues getting the network properly configured during boot-up.
