From b41ca289af833535dea0c58d09507bbe6850e293 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: ligc <ligc@8638fb3e-16cb-4fca-ae20-7b5d299a9bcd>
Date: Sun, 27 Sep 2009 03:03:17 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] fix for bug 2867833: wait database initialization in xcatd

git-svn-id: https://svn.code.sf.net/p/xcat/code/xcat-core/trunk@4243 8638fb3e-16cb-4fca-ae20-7b5d299a9bcd
---
 xCAT-server/sbin/xcatd | 13 +++++++++++--
 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/xCAT-server/sbin/xcatd b/xCAT-server/sbin/xcatd
index d1e4ec59f..df94d2af7 100755
--- a/xCAT-server/sbin/xcatd
+++ b/xCAT-server/sbin/xcatd
@@ -112,9 +112,18 @@ my $port;
 my $sport;
 my $domain;
 my $xcatdir;
-my $sitetab=xCAT::Table->new('site');
+my $sitetab;
+my $retries = 0;
+# The database initialization may take some time in the system boot scenario
+# wait for a while for the database initialization
+while (!($sitetab=xCAT::Table->new('site')) && $retries < 20)
+{
+    print ("Can not open basic site table for configuration, waiting the database to be initialized.\n");
+    sleep 1;
+    $retries++;
+}
 unless ($sitetab) {
-    print ("ERROR: Unable to open basic site table for configuration\n");
+    die "ERROR: Unable to open basic site table for configuration\n";
 }
 
 my ($tmp) = $sitetab->getAttribs({'key'=>'xcatdport'},'value');