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Channel log from 7 September 2017   (all times are UTC)

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06:22
<alkisg>
!client-list
06:22
<ltsp>
client-list: to get a list of all nbd-clients (which sometimes is the same as ltsp clients), run: netstat -tn | sed -n 's/.*:10809 *\([0-9.]*\):.*/\1/p' | sort -Vu
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09:34
<tarzeau>
ltsp-manager_17.08_all.deb
09:34
this is the version i got by git download and debuild
09:34
anything else i can test or try?
09:34
<alkisg>
tarzeau: well, we have a .deb in our ppa
09:34
You can just use that one
09:34
Do you have any issues that are unreported or unresolved?
09:34
<tarzeau>
but your .deb is for ubuntu 16.04 ?
09:35
and i was trying on stretch (that's why i rebuilt the src pkg)
09:35
<alkisg>
It fits for stretch too
09:35
<tarzeau>
yes as root, i run ltsp-manager and nothing happens. it just hangs
09:35
<alkisg>
Not many differences between them...
09:35
<tarzeau>
[ root@methyer:/scratch/ltsp/ >
09:35
# ltsp-manager
09:35
<alkisg>
Why do you run it as root?
09:35
<tarzeau>
i was told to run it as root?
09:35
17:03 < alkisg> tarzeau: about ltsp-manager -h, it works fine if you run it with pkexec or as root as it's supposed to be ran, but it's indeed an issue that -h should bug about that
09:36
oh wait, after a while a window pops up
09:36
<alkisg>
Wait, the point is to get the -h entry, or to run ltsp-manager?
09:36
ltsp manager runs from the gui menu
09:36
<tarzeau>
both!
09:36
<alkisg>
This indirectly calls pkexec, which authenticates
09:36
And if you run ltsp-manager from the gnome/mate etc menu, it doesn't run?
09:36
Somewhere under the system menu, depending on your DE
09:37
<tarzeau>
the gui hangs. we've got like 1000+ users (ldap/nis)
09:37
<alkisg>
does `time getent passwd username` take a long time?
09:38
<tarzeau>
real 0m0.004s
09:38
rest 0, 0
09:38
ypcat passwd |wc -l
09:38
7739
09:38
but only ~1000 +-300 are active
09:39
but i guess i should run ltsp-manager on the ltsp server anyways, and not just on a standard computer
09:41
if users are supposed to run it, should it not be in /usr/bin ? it's in /usr/sbin which my users PATH doesn't point to
09:41
ah and -h works. it just hangs the same amount of time until the gui appears
09:42
it would make sense to really display the help, without a # time ltsp-manager -h
09:42
(going to tell you how much i have to wait for some stdout letters)
09:42
real 0m27.362s
09:42
user 0m2.128s
09:42
sys 0m1.784s
09:42
half a minute
09:43
and as a user, i get a traceback for -v soemthing about: twisted.python._inotify.INotifyError: Failed to add watch on ''/etc/shadow'' - (-1)
09:46
edit lts.conf opens the wrong lts.conf here, the one from /var/lib/tftpboot/ltsp/i386 instead of the one amd64/lts.conf
09:46
complete Groups/Users is unusable here, since we have our users in nis/ldap
09:48
the application relies on the window maker to have a quit button, but it should provide a file,exit/quit
09:48
<alkisg>
Users aren't supposed to run ltsp manager
09:48
<tarzeau>
other than that, probably great
09:49
<alkisg>
It's a sysadmin thing
09:49
bbiab
09:55
<tarzeau>
now i get it! if run as root, this dialog:
09:55
=== AUTHENTICATING FOR org.ltsp.ltsp-manager ===
09:55
Authentication is required to run LTSP Manager.
09:55
Authenticating as: root
09:55
is from pkexec, trying to authenticate as root
09:56
since we have a bit a different way of becoming root (no root ssh logins, and no local root logins without usb key 2factor) it doesn't work, unless fixing pam configurations
09:56
that is why i can just launch it as root, and then it works, what the 30 second delay at startup causes, not sure. if you want to improve i can try to run it with strace/ltrace to figure out
10:01
<alkisg>
back
10:01
tarzeau: /usr/sbin is the normal path for system programs, like ltsp-update-image etc
10:01
It's in the path when you're a sudoer
10:02
The best way to launch it is from the gui menu which invokes pkexec
10:02
If you want to launch it from the command line without being a sudoer, then, as a *user* run: /usr/sbin/ltsp-manager
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10:02
<alkisg>
It will invoke pkexec and authenticate as needed
10:03
About the big delay, it sounds like a problem in your setup, it doesn't sound ltsp-manager related
10:03
<tarzeau>
the dialog i got, was just not very clear to me, that was why i was confused
10:03
<alkisg>
Editing lts.conf should open *all* lts.conf that are there
10:03
Not the first one, but all of them
10:03
pkexec is the recommended method for applications to run as root, while respecting policykit
10:04
If you find the point which causes the 30 sec delay, and it's related to ltsp manager, then sure I can put patches or workarounds
10:05
<tarzeau>
can't strace/ltrace python code properly, but it kind of keeps hanging at:
10:05
close(-1) = -1 EBADF (Bad file descriptor)
10:05
wait4(-1, 0x7fffbbb1784c, 0, NULL) = ? ERESTARTSYS (To be restarted if SA_RESTART is set)
10:05
--- SIGWINCH {si_signo=SIGWINCH, si_code=SI_KERNEL} ---
10:05
wait4(-1, ^Cstrace: Process 21676 detached
10:05
<detached ...>
10:05
it seems you are nohuping/forking processes to launch stuff
10:05
ltsp-manager starts ltsp-manager.py
10:05
<alkisg>
strace -f attaches to child processes
10:05
<tarzeau>
which does other stuff.
10:06
ack... a lot more output now
10:06
<alkisg>
Need to go for now, will read logs when I come back, and reply then
10:06
<tarzeau>
it seems to open /etc/group a million times
10:06
<alkisg>
Probably enumerates through the users
10:07
File a bug report for a dev to test with e.g. 1000 user accounts
10:07
<tarzeau>
but it always only shows: [pid 5496] open("/etc/group", O_RDONLY|O_CLOEXEC) = 11
10:07
then closes it again
10:07
<alkisg>
Btw, running ltsp-manager elsewhere than the ltsp server doesn't make much sense
10:07
Yeah it just reads a user, then reads the next one etc
10:07
<tarzeau>
but here it only reads the first one
10:07
and then something with /var/run/nslcd/socket happens
10:07
<alkisg>
bbl, will reply then...
10:08
<tarzeau>
cu
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10:09
<tarzeau>
# find . -name lts.conf
10:09
./ltsp/amd64/lts.conf
10:09
./ltsp/i386/lts.conf
10:09
making sure if we have the amd64/lts.conf indeed, however ltsp-manager only opened the i386/lts.conf in gedit, not the one we really use. the ohter one is a left over, not being used anymore
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10:29
<antares_>
hello all. Is it possible to make a backup of a chroot from a ltsp running machine and put it in another ltsp machine?
10:29
machine=server
10:50
<vlt>
antares_: Well, what stops you from exactly doing what you described?
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12:55
<q9>
Hi, if put my private ssh-key into ~root/.ssh/id_rsa ldm finds an uses it. But where do I put the key of a second user?
13:37
<alkisg>
q9: what are you trying to do?
13:37
Autologin with ssh keys?
13:38
tarzeau: doesn't ltsp-manager open all lts.conf for you? It executes this, which is supposed to open all: for f in glob.glob('/var/lib/tftpboot/ltsp/*/lts.conf'): self.edit_file(f)
13:39
Maybe gedit opened them in 2 tabs, and you didn't see the first tab?
13:39
<tarzeau>
maybe, let me retry
13:39
alkisg: that's python, right?
13:40
<alkisg>
Yes, in ltsp-manager.py
13:40
<tarzeau>
however at starting ltsp-manager, i keep getting the window "Initial LTSP setup" You need to run the initial ltsp setup actions.
13:41
indeed, two tabs
13:41
gee that gedit is ugly
13:43
<alkisg>
tarzeau: that window will keep nagging you until you accept it :)
13:43
<tarzeau>
why does it open firefox as root, for the help/live chat?
13:43
<alkisg>
I didn't implement an ignore option yet, and I'm not sure it's needed
13:43
<tarzeau>
alkisg: what does it do if i accept it? break my ltsp servers?
13:43
<alkisg>
Because you run it as root instead of from the menu with pkexec
13:43
<tarzeau>
i guess it's great to setup and get running an ltsp server
13:43
<alkisg>
less /usr/share/ltsp-manager/initial-setup.sh to see
13:44
<tarzeau>
but our setup is well, different. two ltsp servers, with glusterfs
13:44
2 dhcp servers, and additionally an rdp windows server
13:45
you should add checks before trying to service network-manager whatever, if network-manager is installed at all (we don't have it)
13:45
likewise for dnsmasq (we have it though, nobody is required to have it)
13:49
here's some strace -f output: https://people.phys.ethz.ch/~myczko/ltsp/ltsp-manager-strace-f.log
13:49
maybe you have an idea looking at it, what causes ltsp-manager to take 30 seconds to start
13:50
indeed reading in all the users
13:51
time ypcat passwd > /dev/null
13:51
ypcat passwd > /dev/null 0.00s user 0.00s system 4% cpu 0.098 total
13:52
however using ypcat passwd to get the users is way faster, than i have no idea how you read them. getent?
13:52
time getent passwd > /dev/null
13:52
getent passwd > /dev/null 0.02s user 0.00s system 0% cpu 2.845 total
13:52
no idea why getent is way much slower
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14:19
<alkisg>
tarzeau: ltsp-manager is for setting up ltsp in small labs, with posix accounts etc
14:19
You have a large setup without dnsmasq, with ldap, etc etc, clearly ltsp-manager isn't for you
14:19
ltsp-manager is for implementing a small, recommended setup. If we add checks for everything, it's not the small recommended setup anymore
14:20
I read them with getent, yes
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<tarzeau>
but even just getent on the console only takes < 3 seconds, while ltsp-manager users almost 30 seconds
14:22
anyways. yes i figured it's not for me/us, i just gave it a short try, what could it do, and what not
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14:23
<tarzeau>
what i wonder is will you make the ltsp-manager, also a user-manager (without ltsp), just for posix accounts?
14:23
because i couldn't find any useful graphical useramanager, working with /etc/passwd,shadow,group
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(because i was writing one, well wanted to 10 years ago, and now, really writing it, although using gnustep-gui/applicationkit.h)
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14:30
<fitzman>
Hello, I have deployed ubuntu 14.04, after chroot update I have some users that can login fine and a few just spin and come to login screen
14:32
sorry can not login after the update. everyone else is fine. The users are valid user and worked before. The system auths the account fine just fails for there xsession
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14:42
<alkisg>
fitzman: do you have the greek schools ppa in your sources?
14:42
!greek-schools-ppa
14:42
<ltsp>
greek-schools-ppa: https://launchpad.net/~ts.sch.gr/+archive/ppa/ supports LTS Ubuntu releases with newer LTSP versions, bug fixes etc
14:43
<alkisg>
fitzman: ltsp in ubuntu is usually broken without it...
14:44
tarzeau: no, not interested in maintaining a user manager outside of ltsp currently...
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15:06
<alkisg>
tarzeau: but, if such a good user manager existed, then ltsp-manager code would be a lot smaller :)
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