IRC chat logs for #ltsp on irc.libera.chat (webchat)


Channel log from 3 February 2015   (all times are UTC)

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07:02
<eemeli>
what is the best way for automatic shutdown when using autologin in 12.04 ubuntu ltsp-pnp ?
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07:06
<alkisg>
eemeli: automatic based on time, or on a command sent by the sysadmin?
07:08
<eemeli>
im trying to do it with lts.conf shutdown_time or crontab_01 but cant get it work
07:14
<vagrantc>
there were some bugs in shutdown handling in older versions of ltsp/ldm
07:15* vagrantc thinks CRONTAB_XX might be an indicator that KEEP_SYSTEM_SERVICES should include cron
07:16
<alkisg>
I think cron isn't automatically removed, except for extremely low-ram clients, e.g. <= 128 MB RAM
07:16* vagrantc nods
07:16
<alkisg>
eemeli: what's the version of ltsp-client in your system?
07:20
<eemeli>
5.5.1
07:21
<alkisg>
It's recent enough, you're probably using the Greek schools PPA
07:21
!screen_02
07:21
<ltsp`>
screen_02: To get a root shell on an Ubuntu thin client: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/UbuntuLTSP/ClientTroubleshooting#Using_a_shell_SCREEN
07:21
<alkisg>
Login to the client as root and check if shutdown time got written in crontab
07:22
<eemeli>
im in with epoptes root terminal and there is no crontab for root
07:22
<alkisg>
What's the output of `getltscfg -a` there?
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07:28
<eemeli>
the crontab_01 is in there
07:31
<alkisg>
eemeli: and, the output of `cat /etc/cron.d/ltsp` ?
07:35
<eemeli>
30 9 * * 1-5 /sbin/shutdown -h now
07:37
<alkisg>
So, it's there
07:37
<eemeli>
but it wont go down...
07:38
<alkisg>
Is cron running? ps aux| grep cron
07:39
Also I don't see the "user" there in that crontab line, are you sure it's correct?
07:39
Did you use shutdown_time or crontab?
07:39
Better use shutdown_time, reboot the client and check again that file
07:40
<eemeli>
i have tryed, didnt get it work
07:41
<alkisg>
Yes, troubleshoot it now
07:41
Check that /etc/cron.d/ltsp file after setting shutdown_time
07:41
<eemeli>
ok
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07:59
<eemeli>
there is 2 lines: 55 9 * * * root test ! -S "$(ls -1 /var/run/ldm_socket_* | head -1)" && PATH=\$PATH:/sbin/ poweroff and 55 9 * * 1-5 /sbin/shutdown -h now
08:01
<alkisg>
That "ls" command means "if someone is logged in, don't shut the client down"
08:01
I don't know about the second line
08:03
<eemeli>
ok, so i dont need the "ls"
08:06
<alkisg>
!nbd-client
08:06
<ltsp`>
nbd-client: To try mounting the NBD image from the client initramfs: nbd-client 192.168.67.1 -N /opt/ltsp/i386 /dev/nbd0
08:06
<alkisg>
(unrelated to our chat)
08:09
The ls part isn't a problem
08:09
You can test if the clients shuts down if it's not logged in
08:10
(09:38:29 πμ) alkisg: Is cron running? ps aux| grep cron
08:12
<eemeli>
the client goes down if user is not logged in
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08:30
<ame>
i am trying to install MPLABX its an application which needs java...But it saying error if i started installing that application from chroot
08:31
"BUS error"
08:33
<alkisg>
eemeli: if you don't want that "ls" check, remove it from /usr/share/ltsp/init-ltsp.d/50-cron
08:33
ame: that question is not related to ltsp, ask it in another channel...
08:34
<eemeli>
yes.. i idid found it and it works! thx!
08:34
<ame>
alkisg:But i am trying to install that in chroot but its working good if i install that software on my server
08:35
<alkisg>
ame: yes, chroot questions are not specific to ltsp
08:36
<ame>
alkisg:ok i will ask some other channel
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08:36
<alkisg>
For example, you can go in #ubuntu and ask them "how can I install java in a chroot"?
08:36
...too late
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14:13
<championofcyrodi>
so... i can't get to 'arxiv.org' with the fat clients.
14:13
but desktops can... same LAN, same external IP.
14:14
tried changing the user agent string on browser, same thing.
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14:34
<championofcyrodi>
access denied, because they think the users are bots
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15:08
<guest_____>
hello, can someone tell me if it's possible to get all the clients to reboot when the ltsp server is restarting?
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15:31
<markit>
guest_____: mmm maybe using some code from Epoptes project and having epoptes installed...
15:32
or you could do manually with Epoptes from the server
15:32
guest_____: http://www.epoptes.org/
15:33
work_alkisg: the link in www.epoptes.org related to sch-scripts is broken (points to http://wiki.ubuntu-gr.org/sch-scripts/screenshots that does not exist anymore)
15:36
<guest_____>
markit: isn't epoptes gui only? I got that impression from it. I have server CLI only
15:37
<markit>
guest_____: ah, you are doomed then
15:38
guest_____: don't you have a teacher with a client?
15:38
I mean, you can configure epoptes to run in a certain client
15:38
so teacher restarts server, restarts his client, and reboots children pcs
15:38
with epoptes... or you can dig epoptes python code and see how it reboots clients
15:39
so maybe you can take that code and broadcast the reboot from script
15:39
but these are just ideas since there is no what you are looking for, AFAIK
15:42
<guest_____>
markit: I am doing kiosk clients, where all of them uses just basic nodm with chromium running in it (and heavily modified kioskSession script). I am trying to notify all the kiosk clients if the server gets restarted because if I won't do it, it just starts throwing errors since the mount is obviously gone
15:43
I am also running Nagios on the server with NRPE on clients if that's of any help, though I am not sure I can make clients restart with NRPE
15:44
<markit>
guest_____: don't know if Wake ON lan can also restart pcs
15:45
guest_____: in any case, if you install epoptes client in chroot, and epoptes server in the server
15:45
maybe you can issue commands to the client using epoptes python code
15:45
you should ask work_alkisg that is the designer of epoptes and a real LTSP guru
15:46
guest_____: since epoptes is free code, you can have a look at the code yourself
15:47
<guest_____>
so i would be able to run epoptes without having xorg on server? and I am not really good in python to be honest, so I am not sure if poking around in source code would help
15:48
<markit>
guest_____: AFAIU epoptes is server and client, + graphical interface
15:49
I think it always runs the daemon part on the server, but I've used it graphically and never digged into details
15:49
is only the only idea comes to my mind
15:49
<guest_____>
alright, I'll test it and see how it goes.. Thanks for you help!
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16:18
<guest_____>
markit: I installed nodm on server as well and the GUI works but it's still only "klick to kill", I need automatic restarting when something happens.I also found from where it's executed but I have no idea how it works, I can't make any sense from those codes :/
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16:41
<markit>
guest_____: don't know "nodm", is it in epoptes?
16:41
I think that for shutdown / reboot epoptes daemon talks with epotes client
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16:46
<guest_____>
no, nodm is very simple display manager, it has nothing to do with epoptes, just me trying to get some kind of gui going on the server. What I found is it's sending a command "'%s %s' %(command[0], ' '.join([pipes.quote(str(x)) for x in command[1:]]))" where command[0] should be reboot]
16:49
on server that is, I am just trying to figure out what it is actually sending so i can replicate that with another script
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16:58
<markit>
guest_____: I think that you really have to find work_alkisg online and ask him
16:58* alkisg waves
16:59
<alkisg>
About automatic client reboot? Nah epoptes isn't good for that, because e.g. if the server reboots due to outage, then the client nbd connection is lost, and there's no way for epoptes to do anything without a file system
16:59
But, kernel parameters like panic=30 help
17:00
Or a loop that checks for the server connection and uses the reboot sysrq call to reboot...
17:01* markit waves alkisg :)
17:02
<guest_____>
alkisg: I needed more of a planned restart/shutdown, when I know the clients will need it (for example following ltsp-image-update, shutdown controled with cron after work-hours, etc.)
17:02
<alkisg>
Why planned and not fully automatic?
17:02
Suppose your server hangs, don't you want the clients automatically rebooted?
17:03
<guest_____>
yes, but if server hangs, the clint won't reconnect after restart anyway since the server will be still frozen :)
17:04
<alkisg>
If you have a delay on the client, e.g. 30 seconds or 2 minutes before the automatic restart, there's a chance that the server will be online then,
17:04
and, you can configure your clients to loop until it's online again
17:05
In any case manually rebooting the clients won't offer any advantage to what you said...
17:07
<guest_____>
fair enough, but shuting them down at the end of the day would still be useful and I'd rather make it from the server rather than makin it localy with cron since I would have much wider options of influencing the shutdown time instead of updating image everytime
17:08
<alkisg>
To send scripted commands from the server to the clients, you either need a daemon (sshd, netcat...) or the console version of epoptes, which isn't yet ready
17:09
LTSP doesn't have a daemon for that, you use normal utilities
17:09
<guest_____>
can't I just send a command to client the same GUI is sending?
17:10
<alkisg>
You need to implement the part of the gui that talks to the daemon
17:10
So, no
17:10
You can however use another pc for the epoptes daemon, and use a gui there instead of using it on the server
17:10
but no scripting that way either
17:11
<guest_____>
damn.. well guess I'll have to ssh to shutdown it remotely then
17:11
thanks for the help!
17:12
<markit>
alkisg: any updated epoptes roadmap? How is Phantomas? long time I don't talk with him
17:12
and how are you?
17:12
<alkisg>
markit: nah, epoptes development has stalled for a bit, until we move on with ltsp6 first
17:13
<markit>
any link for ltsp6 planned features? I'm so curious
17:14
<alkisg>
no ldm, new configuration daemon...
17:14
No links for the whole roadmap, some of them are on the wiki though, e.g. http://wiki.ltsp.org/wiki/Dev:Ltspd
17:15
<markit>
thanks :) You still strong in deplyoing ltsp to schools? No M$ interference at government level?
17:17
ehm, maybe you are busy right now, hope to find online again sooner or later, I'm not often here though
17:18
<alkisg>
Yup I'm a little preoccupied with other things, but no, no interference with deploying ltsp
17:18
http://www.ltsp.org/stories/widget-map/?location=Greece
17:18
More schools there each day...
17:18
In my city, there's only one high school *not* using ltsp yet ;)
17:20
<ogra_>
evil !
17:20
fix them !!
17:20
:)
17:21
<alkisg>
Nowadays I don't have to go convince them, they come and ask for my help in installing ltsp because they hear from other teachers that it's working good :)
17:22
<ogra_>
:D
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17:39
<markit>
alkisg: I've to leave, thanks and compliments for your work :)
17:43
<alkisg>
bb!
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18:18
<championofcyrodi>
did anyone ever post some doc/info for enabling the screensaver w/ password protection on the fat clients?
18:19
i seem to remember running the screen saver on the server and X forwarding it... but can't remember the particulars
18:21
<ogra_>
that was likely before screensavers started talking though dbus
18:21
<alkisg>
Newer ltsp versions support LDM_HASH_PASSWORD or something so that the user password works in fat clients
18:22
<ogra_>
(i guess xscreensaver still works forwarded)
18:22
<alkisg>
Check the most recent ldm commits
18:22
!ldm-source
18:22
<ltsp`>
ldm-source: at http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~ltsp-upstream/ltsp/ldm-trunk/files
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19:06
<championofcyrodi>
hmm can't seem to sort launchpad by last changed descending
19:06
oh well
19:07
ascending works
19:08
<alkisg>
championofcyrodi: http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~ltsp-upstream/ltsp/ldm-trunk/changes/1555?start_revid=1575
19:08
<championofcyrodi>
ty
19:09
<alkisg>
LDM_PASSWORD_HASH
19:09
=true...
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20:27
<championofcyrodi>
weird. my ltsp-chroot is suddenly not resolving lookups via dns
20:28
wait... yes it is... just that the network is unreachable...
20:28
for all IPs
20:29
looks like a host issue.
20:29
ltsp@ltsp:~$ ping www.google.com
20:29
connect: Network is unreachable
20:31
got it... weird. the default route was missing from the routing table
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