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Channel log from 16 May 2011   (all times are UTC)

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<html_inprogress>
but theres a beffier ones on there
00:00
http://www.pcliquidations.com/p6476-dell-poweredge-4600-2
00:01
by the price im guess purely that this is better
00:01
<alkisg>
For fat clients you don't need cpu power on the server
00:01
So don't judge by the price
00:02
<html_inprogress>
well im a freash as can be noob so
00:03
help me please ,, i know comuter lappys and all, but this server stuff is not my thing ,, which i have no idea ,,
00:04
alkisg, so can you please tell me how to read and understad this stuff ,,,,pleaseeeeeeee....
00:06
<alkisg>
html_inprogress: do you have existing clients and you're looking for a server?
00:06
If so, what are the client specs? How much ram do they have?
00:07
<html_inprogress>
just trying to learn first, about this,
00:08
<alkisg>
So you don't have a specific use case, and you just want us to tell you how to buy servers in general?
00:08
I don't think you can find that on IRC
00:08
<html_inprogress>
so that way i know what i need , and i can figure it out,, but a nice server is what im lookin at
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00:14
<alkisg>
The only thing I can tell you about buying servers in general, is, "don't buy them until you have a very specific use case" :)
00:41
<html_inprogress>
a what ?
00:46
<alkisg>
a specific use case == to know the environment where the servers will be used
00:46
Client hardware, network, concurrent users, expected load etc
00:47
You say you don't know that now. So all I can advice you is, "don't buy a server until you do know all that".
00:49
<Hyperbyte>
alkisg!
00:49
Just the person I need.
00:49* alkisg is about to leave though :D
00:49
<Hyperbyte>
This morning, out of nowhere, my LTSP server is INSANELY slow
00:49
Or actually the server is fine, but client bootup takes somewhere up to 10 minutes.
00:50
Lots of udevd errors "worked failted while handling /devices/virtual/block/ramN"
00:50
*worker
00:50
Any ideas?
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00:52
<Hyperbyte>
If you just could just point me a little in the right direction before you leave. ;-)
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00:53
<Hyperbyte>
http://secondary.recreatie-zorg.nl/jan/ltsp-udevd.jpg
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00:54
<Hyperbyte>
Once they're booted up and logged in (and this really does take 10 minutes, no exageration), they're sort of okay... a little sluggish in my opinion, but not something most users would be concerned with
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01:05
<alkisg>
Hyperbyte: for that message, try passing "nocompcache" as a kernel parameter
01:05
Do you know how to do that?
01:06
Ah sorry it's about ram, not ramzswap.
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01:14
<Hyperbyte>
Plus it's newly occurred this morning. I just reset the entire terminal server, see what happens now
01:17
Whoa, server reset didn't help the problem. Which means I'm in biiig trouble here.
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01:33
<Hyperbyte>
Hey Gavin. :)
01:48
<html_inprogress>
alkisg, sorry i step out for a while
01:51
Hyperbyte, hi
01:54
<Hyperbyte>
Hi!
01:54
alkisg left by the way. :)
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02:55
<alkisg>
Hyperbyte: so no software update was involved when that happened? Either server or chroot update?
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04:37
<Hyperbyte>
alkisg, I did update kernel, but that was seven days before this happened
04:38
And that was kernel on server... client hasn't had anything changed in a long time.
04:38
After five, when everyone is gone here I will try to downgrade the kernel
04:38
But I'm not hopeful really.
04:38
Not sure if it's related, but I also noticed a whole bunch of processes still running on the terminal server, from users who have long logged out
04:39
Lots of ltspfs processes actually, that's why I decided to reboot the server, assuming that'd fix it... but no go.
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04:52
<blueonyx>
hi, are there known problems with udhcpc? sometimes it cant grep a lease :(
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05:01
<Appiah>
same client(s)?
05:17
<Hyperbyte>
Appiah: me?
05:17
<Appiah>
no blueonyx
05:17
<Hyperbyte>
Ah
05:18
alkisg, I left some messages for you in the log. ;-)
05:19
<alkisg>
Hyperbyte: which distro/version?
05:19
<Hyperbyte>
Fedora, 12 I think
05:19
Or 13.
05:19
Either way it happens during udevd initialization (service start)
05:19
<alkisg>
Ah, no idea there
05:19
<Hyperbyte>
Right after kernel is loaded...
05:19
<alkisg>
I don't even know what fedora uses for booting, nbd or nfs etc
05:19
<Hyperbyte>
NFS
05:20
What puzzles me is that it gives errors on /devices/virtual/block/ram[N]
05:21
I assume these are used for storing LTSP boot image, even before mounting nbd or nfs
05:21
No?
05:21
<alkisg>
I don't think so
05:22
<Hyperbyte>
Then why does LTSP use ramdisks?
05:22
<alkisg>
They're not ltsp related
05:22
<Hyperbyte>
Hrm
05:22
<alkisg>
You have those on your server too, right?
05:22
It's not specific to ltsp clients...
05:22
<Hyperbyte>
Hrm
05:22
Maybe I should try booting up without ram disks then
05:23
Wait, what does LTSP use for /tmp/ on the client?
05:23
<alkisg>
It depends on the distro
05:23
tmpfs, aufs, stuff like that
05:24
For nfs, debian uses bind-mounts
05:24
<Hyperbyte>
tmpfs is ramdisk
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05:25
<alkisg>
On my standalone ubuntu machine:
05:25
$ grep tmpfs /proc/mounts
05:25
none /dev devtmpfs rw,relatime,size=1523528k,nr_inodes=212647,mode=755 0 0
05:25
none /dev/shm tmpfs rw,nosuid,nodev,relatime 0 0
05:25
none /var/run tmpfs rw,nosuid,relatime,mode=755 0 0
05:25
none /var/lock tmpfs rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime 0 0
05:25
none /lib/init/rw tmpfs rw,nosuid,relatime,mode=755 0 0
05:25
I.e. they're not ltsp related
05:25
<andygraybeal>
mornining :)
05:25
<alkisg>
But sure, the cow image on the ltsp client would be ltsp related :)
05:25
<Hyperbyte>
alkisg, I'm not saying it's an LTSP error. :)
05:26
<alkisg>
OK, that's where I was pointing at. No idea about the fedora init process though
05:26
Hi andygraybeal
05:26
<andygraybeal>
hi alkay :)
05:27
<alkisg>
blueonyx: this is a known bug with udhcpc: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ltsp/+bug/505916
05:27
It affects more than just windows servers
05:28
<Hyperbyte>
alkisg, I think I've found it. I checked the LTSP image for changed files within the last 5 days... there a whole bunch of directories in /var/run/drives/ called ramX-ramX-etc...
05:28
Must've left the NFS mount rw after some maintenance... but why the hell those dirs were created... :-)
05:29
1136 directories in /var/run/drives/
05:29
<alkisg>
Probably ltspfsd matched some udev rules there and created them
05:29
<Hyperbyte>
Let's see.
05:31
<alkisg>
You netbooted a client with nfs mounted rw?
05:32
<Hyperbyte>
Yes.
05:32
Am I doomed now? :P
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05:33
<Hyperbyte>
Still no luck by the way, didn't change anything. I guess the directories were created by the problem, not caused by it.
05:34
<alkisg>
It doesn't sound like a good idea, using nfs rw for maintainance...
05:34
The ltsp init scripts might break your chroot
05:35
<Hyperbyte>
It's worked so far
05:35
Fedora package manager didn't like to be in chroot for some reason
05:36
<alkisg>
Maybe it needed /proc mounted?
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05:37
<Hyperbyte>
Not sure... I'm too much of a novice for this kind of stuff sometimes I think.
05:37
Heh
05:38
<alkisg>
In the future I want to try an alternative approach, to boot the chroot inside virtualbox
05:38
That should make it easier for maintainance...
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05:38
<alkisg>
...especially for fat clients
05:38
<mgariepy>
good morning everyone
05:38
<alkisg>
Hi mgariepy
05:39
<Hyperbyte>
This is sort of what Warren Togami was saying on the K12Linux mailing list, isn't it?
05:39
<alkisg>
Nope
05:39
bbiab
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05:39
<Hyperbyte>
Alright.
05:39
Morning by the way, mgariepy. :-)
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05:47
<elias_a>
To me it seems that Hyperbyte is a scam with no intention of communicating on the subject. This interpretation is based on the comments I have read.
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05:48
<elias_a>
Hyperbyte: What do you say?
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05:53
<Hyperbyte>
elias_a, heh... what? :-)
06:01
<blueonyx>
i use fat clients and nis to administrate my user accounts, but when i login through ssh, my groups arent right :( everything is right with ldm/gdm though
06:02
isn't group: compat nis in /etc/nsswitch.conf enough?
06:03
<midasxl42>
Hello, i'm using LTSP in edubuntu 10.4 and when i start up the thin station it connects but i get no login screen. all i get it a white screen and a mouse pointer.I get a ltsp 20 with the clients ip address but nothing else.. can anyone help me with this.. Thanks
06:04
<Hyperbyte>
Try ypcat group on the client... see if that shows the groups correctly.
06:04
If it doesn't, it's a NIS problem.
06:05
<blueonyx>
it shows the groups of my users, but they got no members O.o
06:05
i get only stuff like: foo:x:1006:
06:06
<Hyperbyte>
Okay, now try the "ypcat group" on the server. See if it shows correctly there.
06:08
<blueonyx>
No such map group.byname. Reason: Can't bind to server which serves this domain
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06:09
<Hyperbyte>
alkisg, got it! How stupid must I be... I didn't check any running processes on the clients. Apparently ltspfs' automounter for USB sticks and stuff decided to mount all local ramdisks and loop devices
06:09
Why it suddenly started doing this is another question, but at least the how is covered. :)
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08:17* Hyperbyte pokes Da-Geek
08:17
<Hyperbyte>
You around? :)
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09:35
<Zarrku_>
I am having a problem with the number of thin clients I am able to have running at one time. I have the required memory to run the amount of thin clients I am trying to run. 100 thin clients ( 22gb or ram ) However, after so many thin clients are booted, someone will try to log-in and will just get a black screen with a mouse cursor. When a different thin client logs out, the thin client that had the black screen and a mouse cursor wil
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09:48
<shawnp0wers>
Quick Question: Is it possible to specify a range of IP addresses in lts.conf? For example, if I want to set the LDM_PRINTER_LIST variable for a lab of computers?
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10:02
<vagrantc>
shawnp0wers: you should be able to match with *
10:02
shawnp0wers: 192.168.0.*
10:05
<Zarrku_>
I am having a problem with the number of thin clients I am able to have running at one time. I have the required memory to run the amount of thin clients I am trying to run. 100 thin clients ( 22gb or ram ) However, after so many thin clients are booted, someone will try to log-in and will just get a black screen with a mouse cursor. When a different thin client logs out, the thin client that had the black screen and a mouse cursor will
10:06
<shawnp0wers>
vagrantc: Thanks! That will save me an incredible amount of typing. And I have the labs separated by 10.10.* octets as well, so it's set up perfectly.
10:17
<vagrantc>
Zarrku_: maybe finish what you're saying
10:18
<Zarrku_>
huh
10:19
is it now all showing up
10:19
I'll break it down
10:19
I am having a problem with the number of thin clients I am able to have running at one time.
10:19
h the number of thin clients I am able to have running at one time. I have the required memory to run the amount of thin clients I am trying to run. 100 thin clients ( 22gb orf ram )
10:20
I have the required memory to run the amount of thin clients I am trying to run. 100 thin clients ( 22gb orf ram )
10:20
<vagrantc>
it's twice ended with "and a mouse cursor will" ...
10:20
<Zarrku_>
However, after so many thin clients are booted, someone will try to log-in and will just get a black screen with a mouse cursor.
10:20
When a different thin client logs out, the thin client that had the black screen and a mouse cursor will then show a desktop.
10:21
Can you tell me what is wrong?
10:21
<vagrantc>
Zarrku_: they're all logging in with different users?
10:21
<Zarrku_>
yes
10:21
all different
10:21
<vagrantc>
with that many thin clients, i wonder if you're hitting a process limit
10:22
that's a massive setup
10:22
<Zarrku_>
yes I know
10:22
hehe
10:22
<vagrantc>
how many work before you start getting problems?
10:22
<Zarrku_>
I'm not sure
10:22
<vagrantc>
what distro and version are you running?
10:23
<Zarrku_>
10.10
10:23
ubtuntu
10:23
with the version ltsp that comes with it
10:23
<vagrantc>
sure
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10:24
<vagrantc>
shawnp0wers: yeah, i use some configurations based on network too
10:24
<Zarrku_>
I its ltsp 5
10:25
<vagrantc>
unless you're doing evil, it'll be whatever comes with ubutu 10.10
10:25
apparently neither of us can spell ubuntu today
10:25
<Zarrku_>
hehe
10:25
well I knew I needed the memory
10:25
so I put 22gb of ram in the server
10:26
<vagrantc>
Zarrku_: how many processors? what type? though this does sound like a software problem
10:26
<Zarrku_>
its a six core amd
10:26
<vagrantc>
Zarrku_: thin clients are all the same model?
10:26
<Zarrku_>
yep
10:26
all dell gx150s
10:27
ther server is a poweredge a415
10:28
sorry r415
10:29
it should be more than enuff to run the clients I would hope
10:29
er enough
10:30
it makes me think its a user limit
10:31
but I've never seen a user limit in ltsp.
10:31
<shawnp0wers>
Anyone familiar with libreoffice on a fat client environment? I thought it was working, but apparently libreoffice can't create its config folder over sshfs...
10:31
<Zarrku_>
Unless you didnt have enough memory
10:32
Of course, I base that of of the ltsp 4.2 version i was running before ltsp 5
10:32
of
10:32
=
10:32
off
10:34
but thats all I know
10:43
<shawnp0wers>
huh, even if I switch to NFS mounted /home on my fat clients, libreoffice still won't start. It errors out while trying to create .libreoffice
10:51
<vagrantc>
Zarrku_: there's a finite number of concurrent processes ... i don't know what the default is these days ...
10:51
Zarrku_: it also might be a limitation of sshd ... it might only allow a certain number of connections at once
10:52
Zarrku_: one of the main differences between ltsp 4.x and ltsp 5 is the default login manager uses ssh
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11:00
<dantix>
hi all, the rom-o-matic.net page is filing to create a hd image. Are there other site where I can download such image from?
11:01
<vagrantc>
dantix: what is your goal?
11:02
there are iPXE packages in debian's testing and unstable release...
11:05
<dantix>
I want to avoid the use to boot of the cdrom, my old machines all have hds
11:06
<vagrantc>
you can't configure them to boot off the network only?
11:06
<dantix>
so I need the image like the used with floppy or cdrom to start the network boot but to apply to a hd
11:06
<vagrantc>
they don't have built-in PXE ?
11:06
<dantix>
no, they are really old and don't have that option
11:06
<vagrantc>
got it
11:09
there aren't any hd images in the iPXE package, but you could grab the ipxe.lkrn from it: http://127.0.0.1:9999/debian/pool/main/i/ipxe/ ipxe_1.0.0%2bgit-1.293e34-2_all.deb
11:10
and then you could configure a bootloader image and such
11:11
<dantix>
you mean install grub?
11:11
and say it to use that kernel
11:12
<vagrantc>
yup
11:12
or extlinux, or some other bootloader
11:13
<dantix>
the .deb file could be "exploded" like a zip to obtain the kernel file?
11:13
<vagrantc>
dpkg-deb -x foo*.deb foo
11:13
<dantix>
vagrantc: thank you very much
11:14
<shawnp0wers>
dantix: I did something similar, once you do it a single time, I'd recommend imaging the hard drives
11:14* vagrantc looks for a script to generate the hd.img
11:14
<shawnp0wers>
it's quite a PITA to set up
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<dantix>
shawnp0wers: PITA?
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<shawnp0wers>
dantix: Sorry, "Pain In The Arse"
11:15
:)
11:16
<dantix>
no problem, do you follow a guide o did it on your own?
11:16
<shawnp0wers>
For my old computers, I ended up actually setting up the hard drive on a newer computer, and imaging to the old ocmputers. I couldn't boot from anything with the old computers, so I couldn't really configure stuff
11:16
It was years and years ago
11:16
I think I just figured it out
11:16
<vagrantc>
fortunately, i haven't had to work with systems that didn't support PXE lately, but there was a time where i really could have used something like that :)
11:16
<shawnp0wers>
and it was an etherboot image back then
11:17
gPXE or whatever it's called now would be much nicer than etherboot
11:17
I had to have both PXE and etherboot images
11:17
it was a real pain
11:17
<vagrantc>
there's a fork called iPXE :)
11:18
<shawnp0wers>
heh, figures. :)
11:18
But yes, dantix, it was REALLY worth the hassle
11:18* vagrantc hasn't seen gPXE development for quite some time
11:18
<shawnp0wers>
the old computers booted up wonderfully from the hard drives
11:18
vagrantc: I never even had a chance to use gPXE, and it is already deprecated, story of my life
11:18
:)
11:18
<dantix>
well, will see what obtain from this.... thanks both
11:19
<vagrantc>
shawnp0wers: iPXE is pretty much the same
11:19
dantix: doh. replace 127.0.0.1:9999 with ftp.us.debian.org or some other mirror relevent for you :)
11:19
<shawnp0wers>
It's funny, with the current thin clients I got, I'm finally outmoding the old P133 clients. So I'll not need iPXE, thankfully
11:20
<vagrantc>
wow. that's old
11:20
<shawnp0wers>
Yeah, they still work with LTSP 4.2 though
11:20
they've been chugging along for almost a decade
11:20
and they were WAY outdated as destkops when we got them. :)
11:21
<vagrantc>
i started with a few 486s but quickly moved to early generation pentiums ... and up until very recently had some pentium II generation stuff still in use
11:21
<shawnp0wers>
We got a huge donation from the Pentagon (really!), so our oldest clients will be 64bit AMD desktops with 1GB of RAM
11:21
I'm quite excited
11:22
thus my recent foray into the fat client world
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<vagrantc>
sheesh
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<andygraybeal>
shawnp0wers, that's awesome
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<alkisg>
shawnp0wers: openoffice (not libreoffice, haven't tried that yet) works fine with fat clients/nfs home here
12:05
<shawnp0wers>
alkisg: Thanks. Libreoffice works fine for my user, but not others. I just wiped my image, and I'm going to stick with openoffice. (I'm using LTS, so it's more likely to work)
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12:06* alkisg sticks to lts too :)
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<shawnp0wers>
I installed libreoffice and firefox4 via ppa  but I think perhaps that was dumb
12:06
:)
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<alkisg>
dantix: do your old machines have an OS in their hard disks? Like e.g. windows 98?
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<dantix>
alkisg: hi, yes for now have win95
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<alkisg>
dantix: here's *one* method: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/UbuntuLTSP/grubgpxe#Boot%20from%20a%20Windows%2095/98/Me%20partition
12:39
Of course, another method would be to install grub + ipxe.lkrn
12:39
And yet another to dd ipxe.usb
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<dantix>
alkisg: thanks a lot
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<tastle73>
short question
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<alkisg>
Too short, we didn't even see it :D
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<dantix>
:D
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<tastle73>
sorry
13:04
<midasxl42>
Hello, i'm using LTSP in edubuntu 10.4 and when i start up the thin station it connects but i get no login screen. all i get it a white screen and a mouse pointer.I get a ltsp 20 with the clients ip address but nothing else.. can anyone help me with this.. Thanks
13:04
<tastle73>
what does this mean?
13:04
[ 24.547318] nbd9: unknown partition table
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[ 24.575254] nbd9: NBD_DISCONNECT
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[ 24.576265] nbd9: Receive control failed (result -32)
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[ 24.576716] nbd9: queue cleared
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I see it a lot, often people cannot login and this is logged
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<alkisg>
tastle73: don't mind that, it's just a check to see if there's a newer version of the nbd image in /opt/ltsp/images/i386.img
13:10
So what is your actual problem? That sometimes people cannot login? And then if you e.g. retry, they can login normally?
13:11
midasxl42: maybe your chroot is broken and you need to run ltsp-build-client to generate a new one?
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<tastle73>
I just was helping somebody where the login screen kept looping them around and I saw this in dmesg
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<tastle73>
I rebuilt the chroot and also commented out LDM_DIRECTX in lts.conf and suddenly they could get in
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<Ghidorah>
Anyone know of a way to automount user shares upon logon... other than pam_mount?
13:21
<alkisg>
tastle73: e.g. one reason that this could happen, is if the server IP has changed. In this case, ltsp-update-sshkeys is needed, and on some distros ltsp-update-image too
13:22
Ghidorah: not ltsp related... but anyway, what user shares? Their home dirs? And what fstype are they?
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<Ghidorah>
alkisg: I know it isn't related, but I would suspect is used alot with LTSP. I'm attempting to mount user shares hosted on Windows 2003. I've sorta got pam_mount working but it is a headache.
13:24
<alkisg>
I think someone did that with likewise
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<Ghidorah>
hrm, I got likewise-open6 for AD authentication
13:26
the interesting bit is
13:26
if I log in locally say to app server1
13:26
pamount works
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but if I log in from a terminal
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it doesn't work
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<cybertimber2009_>
*knock knock* anyone home?
13:34
<alkisg>
"70 people in room" :)
13:34
<cybertimber2009_>
noted. hi all
13:35
I just got LTSP on fedora up and running <3 wanted to come and share
13:37
<vagrantc>
has fedora updated to ltsp 5.2 yet?
13:37
<alkisg>
Warren gave up on ltsp
13:37
No plans to upgrade
13:37
<vagrantc>
someone else started to do something with it
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<alkisg>
da-geek, but he gave up too after the last mails from warren
13:42
vagrantc: https://www.redhat.com/archives/k12osn/2011-May/msg00054.html
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<cybertimber2009_>
gah... part of why i came here. how do I check if it's 5.2? and... is there any chance of F14-15 support? I'd even contribute to making that happen
13:43
<alkisg>
cybertimber2009_: read that mailing list thread too
13:43
<cybertimber2009_>
was opening as I finished typing
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<alkisg>
I think the result is "won't work on LTSP unless someone gives financial support"
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<mgariepy>
any of you had problem with openoffice when printing large (~120 pages) file on thin client ?
13:46
<cybertimber2009_>
:( and yet I understand where they are coming from
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<vagrantc>
alkisg: wow. warren is really grumpy.
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<midasxl42>
alkisg: i'll give that a try thanks :)
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<vagrantc>
huh.
14:21
so a strategy for fedora/redhat is to use Debian's LTSP? wow.
14:21
what a curious day.
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<highvoltage>
vagrantc: :)
14:22
vagrantc: btw, was there anything I still needed to do to my ldm themes package? I kind of lost track on that
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(oh right, I think I needed to upload it somewhere)
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<dantix>
bye Sirs o/
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<vagrantc>
highvoltage: give me a url to the source package, and i can upload it
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<highvoltage>
vagrantc: ok, just got home, will do in a few mins or else if you're not around anymore, tomorrow :)
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<midasxl42>
ok now instead of a white screen i have a black screen with a mouse point when the clitents boots up and it connects to ltsp..
16:08
<dubkat>
that's an improvment, right?
16:13
<midasxl42>
nope i get no desktop
16:13
just a black screen and a mouse pointer
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<vagrantc>
midasxl42: what linux distribution and version?
16:35
<midasxl42>
edubuntu 10.4.2
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<vagrantc>
so they boot from the network, and just get a blank screen?
16:37
<midasxl42>
when a client starts up and use the ubuntu logo and the dots going across the screen andthen a black screen and a mouse pointer. lookks like it stops there and goes no further
16:37
<vagrantc>
midasxl42: did you add any settings in lts.conf?
16:37
<midasxl42>
no i have not
16:37
<vagrantc>
sounds like someone tried to configure it to use XDMCP, and the server isn't configured to use XDMCP
16:38
<midasxl42>
i see
16:38
<vagrantc>
but if you haven't modified anything, it should default to using ssh ...
16:38
X over ssh, that is...
16:38
anyways, i gotta run. sorry i couldn't be more help
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<midasxl42>
i had that problem before with 10.4.2 and went back to 10.4.1 and it alll worked
16:39
thats cool
16:39
but went to edbuntu and it was 10.4.2 and i figured i was going to have issues and i did
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<vagrantc>
maybe video driver issues ...
16:40
midasxl42: are all your thin clients the same or similar models? could you try with somthing different?
16:41
good luck! :)
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<nitin>
arp time out is oming again and agin on pxe boot
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#networking
23:03
can we change tftp port 69 to other because it is the udp port .....and we can't open it for our comapny for security purpose
23:03
so can anybody help me out reagrding this
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<alkisg>
Good morning
23:54
nitin: you want to netboot computers without tftp?
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