[Ocfs2-users] OCFS2 Installation woes

[Peter Sylvester]

I've got a fresh RHEL AS 4-U2 installation on a Dell PE2850 server.

I downloaded and installed the latest RPMs:
ocfs2-2.6.9-22.ELsmp-1.0.7-1.i686.rpm
ocfs2-tools-1.0.2-1.i386.rpm
ocfs2console-1.0.2-1.i386.rpm

I was able to start the console, but when I try to run 
cluster->configure_nodes, I get the following error message:
Could not start cluster stack. This must be resolved before any OCFS2 
filesystem can be mounted.

I tried to start the service via the command line:
/etc/init.d/o2cb load

And got the error:
Mounting configfs filesystem at /config: mount: block device configfs is 
write-protected, mounting read-only
mount: cannot mount block device configfs read-only
Unable to mount configfs filesystem
Failed

I tried mounting /config myself via the following, which worked (not 
sure if thats how it *should* be done though):
mount -t configfs none /config

Now o2cb load puts out the following message:
Loading module "ocfs2_nodemanager": Unable to load module 
"ocfs2_nodemanager"
Failed

And an o2cb status shows:
Module "configfs": Loaded
Filesystem "configfs": Mounted
Module "ocfs2_nodemanager": Not loaded
Module "ocfs2_dlm": Not loaded
Module "ocfs2_dlmfs": Not loaded
Filesystem "ocfs2_dlmfs": Not mounted

I tried creating a /etc/ocfs2/cluster.conf myself (using vi), but it did 
not seem to have any effect.
I tried a fresh reboot but that did not seem to change anything.
Also note that all commands were run as root, and I am just trying to 
get a single node with local disk working.

There were some error messages reported in /var/log/messages, of the form:
Oct 13 17:02:56 dblinux1 kernel: SELinux: initialized (dev configfs, 
type configfs), not configured for labeling
Oct 13 17:02:56 dblinux1 kernel: audit(1129237376.191:5): avc:  denied  
{ mount } for  pid=14922 comm="mount" name="/" dev=configfs ino=70286 
scontext=root:system_r:initrc_t tcontext=system_u:object_r:unlabeled_t 
tclass=filesystem

Also have some errors of form:
Oct 13 18:03:49 dblinux1 dbus: Can't send to audit system: USER_AVC 
pid=2587 uid=81 loginuid=-1 message=avc:  denied  { send_msg } for  
scontext=user_u:system_r:unconfined_t tcontext=user_u:system_r:initrc_t 
tclass=dbus

And this one:
Oct 13 17:46:36 dblinux1 kernel: OCFS2 Node Manager 1.0.7 Wed Oct 12 
13:18:42 PDT 2005 (build 6cb35edfedddf6b4d606b95f2579cb39)
Oct 13 17:46:36 dblinux1 kernel: audit(1129239996.953:8): avc:  denied  
{ mount } for  pid=3903 comm="modprobe" name="/" dev=configfs ino=10949 
scontext=root:system_r:initrc_t tcontext=system_u:object_r:unlabeled_t 
tclass=filesystem
Oct 13 17:46:36 dblinux1 kernel: nodemanager: Registration returned -13
Oct 13 17:46:36 dblinux1 modprobe: FATAL: Error inserting 
ocfs2_nodemanager 
(/lib/modules/2.6.9-22.ELsmp/kernel/fs/ocfs2/ocfs2_nodemanager.ko): 
Permission denied

Any clues as to what I should do I try from here????

thanks,
--Peter