IRC chat logs for #ltsp on irc.libera.chat (webchat)
Channel log from 16 May 2011 (all times are UTC)
| 00:00 | <html_inprogress> but theres a beffier ones on there
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| 00:00 | http://www.pcliquidations.com/p6476-dell-poweredge-4600-2
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| 00:01 | by the price im guess purely that this is better
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| 00:01 | <alkisg> For fat clients you don't need cpu power on the server
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| 00:01 | So don't judge by the price
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| 00:02 | <html_inprogress> well im a freash as can be noob so
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| 00:03 | help me please ,, i know comuter lappys and all, but this server stuff is not my thing ,, which i have no idea ,,
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| 00:04 | alkisg, so can you please tell me how to read and understad this stuff ,,,,pleaseeeeeeee....
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| 00:06 | <alkisg> html_inprogress: do you have existing clients and you're looking for a server?
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| 00:06 | If so, what are the client specs? How much ram do they have?
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| 00:07 | <html_inprogress> just trying to learn first, about this,
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| 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?
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| 00:08 | I don't think you can find that on IRC
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| 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" :)
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| 00:41 | <html_inprogress> a what ?
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| 00:46 | <alkisg> a specific use case == to know the environment where the servers will be used
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| 00:46 | Client hardware, network, concurrent users, expected load etc
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| 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".
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| 00:49 | <Hyperbyte> alkisg!
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| 00:49 | Just the person I need.
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| 00:49 | * alkisg is about to leave though :D | |
| 00:49 | <Hyperbyte> This morning, out of nowhere, my LTSP server is INSANELY slow
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| 00:49 | Or actually the server is fine, but client bootup takes somewhere up to 10 minutes.
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| 00:50 | Lots of udevd errors "worked failted while handling /devices/virtual/block/ramN"
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| 00:50 | *worker
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| 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
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| 01:05 | Do you know how to do that?
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| 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
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| 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. :)
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| 01:48 | <html_inprogress> alkisg, sorry i step out for a while
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| 01:51 | Hyperbyte, hi
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| 01:54 | <Hyperbyte> Hi!
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| 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
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| 04:38 | And that was kernel on server... client hasn't had anything changed in a long time.
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| 04:38 | After five, when everyone is gone here I will try to downgrade the kernel
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| 04:38 | But I'm not hopeful really.
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| 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
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| 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)?
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| 05:17 | <Hyperbyte> Appiah: me?
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| 05:17 | <Appiah> no blueonyx
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| 05:17 | <Hyperbyte> Ah
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| 05:18 | alkisg, I left some messages for you in the log. ;-)
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| 05:19 | <alkisg> Hyperbyte: which distro/version?
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| 05:19 | <Hyperbyte> Fedora, 12 I think
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| 05:19 | Or 13.
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| 05:19 | Either way it happens during udevd initialization (service start)
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| 05:19 | <alkisg> Ah, no idea there
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| 05:19 | <Hyperbyte> Right after kernel is loaded...
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| 05:19 | <alkisg> I don't even know what fedora uses for booting, nbd or nfs etc
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| 05:19 | <Hyperbyte> NFS
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| 05:20 | What puzzles me is that it gives errors on /devices/virtual/block/ram[N]
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| 05:21 | I assume these are used for storing LTSP boot image, even before mounting nbd or nfs
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| 05:21 | No?
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| 05:21 | <alkisg> I don't think so
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| 05:22 | <Hyperbyte> Then why does LTSP use ramdisks?
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| 05:22 | <alkisg> They're not ltsp related
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| 05:22 | <Hyperbyte> Hrm
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| 05:22 | <alkisg> You have those on your server too, right?
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| 05:22 | It's not specific to ltsp clients...
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| 05:22 | <Hyperbyte> Hrm
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| 05:22 | Maybe I should try booting up without ram disks then
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| 05:23 | Wait, what does LTSP use for /tmp/ on the client?
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| 05:23 | <alkisg> It depends on the distro
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| 05:23 | tmpfs, aufs, stuff like that
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| 05:24 | For nfs, debian uses bind-mounts
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| 05:24 | <Hyperbyte> tmpfs is ramdisk
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| 05:25 | <alkisg> On my standalone ubuntu machine:
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| 05:25 | $ grep tmpfs /proc/mounts
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| 05:25 | none /dev devtmpfs rw,relatime,size=1523528k,nr_inodes=212647,mode=755 0 0
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| 05:25 | none /dev/shm tmpfs rw,nosuid,nodev,relatime 0 0
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| 05:25 | none /var/run tmpfs rw,nosuid,relatime,mode=755 0 0
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| 05:25 | none /var/lock tmpfs rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime 0 0
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| 05:25 | none /lib/init/rw tmpfs rw,nosuid,relatime,mode=755 0 0
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| 05:25 | I.e. they're not ltsp related
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| 05:25 | <andygraybeal> mornining :)
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| 05:25 | <alkisg> But sure, the cow image on the ltsp client would be ltsp related :)
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| 05:25 | <Hyperbyte> alkisg, I'm not saying it's an LTSP error. :)
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| 05:26 | <alkisg> OK, that's where I was pointing at. No idea about the fedora init process though
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| 05:26 | Hi andygraybeal
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| 05:26 | <andygraybeal> hi alkay :)
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| 05:27 | <alkisg> blueonyx: this is a known bug with udhcpc: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ltsp/+bug/505916
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| 05:27 | It affects more than just windows servers
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| 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...
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| 05:28 | Must've left the NFS mount rw after some maintenance... but why the hell those dirs were created... :-)
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| 05:29 | 1136 directories in /var/run/drives/
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| 05:29 | <alkisg> Probably ltspfsd matched some udev rules there and created them
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| 05:29 | <Hyperbyte> Let's see.
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| 05:31 | <alkisg> You netbooted a client with nfs mounted rw?
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| 05:32 | <Hyperbyte> Yes.
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| 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.
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| 05:34 | <alkisg> It doesn't sound like a good idea, using nfs rw for maintainance...
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| 05:34 | The ltsp init scripts might break your chroot
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| 05:35 | <Hyperbyte> It's worked so far
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| 05:35 | Fedora package manager didn't like to be in chroot for some reason
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| 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.
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| 05:37 | Heh
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| 05:38 | <alkisg> In the future I want to try an alternative approach, to boot the chroot inside virtualbox
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| 05:38 | That should make it easier for maintainance...
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| 05:38 | <alkisg> ...especially for fat clients
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| 05:38 | <mgariepy> good morning everyone
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| 05:38 | <alkisg> Hi mgariepy
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| 05:39 | <Hyperbyte> This is sort of what Warren Togami was saying on the K12Linux mailing list, isn't it?
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| 05:39 | <alkisg> Nope
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| 05:39 | bbiab
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| 05:39 | <Hyperbyte> Alright.
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| 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? :-)
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| 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
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| 06:02 | isn't group: compat nis in /etc/nsswitch.conf enough?
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| 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
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| 06:04 | <Hyperbyte> Try ypcat group on the client... see if that shows the groups correctly.
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| 06:04 | If it doesn't, it's a NIS problem.
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| 06:05 | <blueonyx> it shows the groups of my users, but they got no members O.o
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| 06:05 | i get only stuff like: foo:x:1006:
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| 06:06 | <Hyperbyte> Okay, now try the "ypcat group" on the server. See if it shows correctly there.
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| 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
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| 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 *
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| 10:02 | shawnp0wers: 192.168.0.*
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| 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
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| 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.
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| 10:17 | <vagrantc> Zarrku_: maybe finish what you're saying
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| 10:18 | <Zarrku_> huh
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| 10:19 | is it now all showing up
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| 10:19 | I'll break it down
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| 10:19 | I am having a problem with the number of thin clients I am able to have running at one time.
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| 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 )
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| 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 )
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| 10:20 | <vagrantc> it's twice ended with "and a mouse cursor will" ...
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| 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.
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| 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.
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| 10:21 | Can you tell me what is wrong?
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| 10:21 | <vagrantc> Zarrku_: they're all logging in with different users?
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| 10:21 | <Zarrku_> yes
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| 10:21 | all different
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| 10:21 | <vagrantc> with that many thin clients, i wonder if you're hitting a process limit
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| 10:22 | that's a massive setup
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| 10:22 | <Zarrku_> yes I know
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| 10:22 | hehe
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| 10:22 | <vagrantc> how many work before you start getting problems?
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| 10:22 | <Zarrku_> I'm not sure
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| 10:22 | <vagrantc> what distro and version are you running?
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| 10:23 | <Zarrku_> 10.10
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| 10:23 | ubtuntu
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| 10:23 | with the version ltsp that comes with it
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| 10:23 | <vagrantc> sure
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| 10:24 | <vagrantc> shawnp0wers: yeah, i use some configurations based on network too
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| 10:24 | <Zarrku_> I its ltsp 5
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| 10:25 | <vagrantc> unless you're doing evil, it'll be whatever comes with ubutu 10.10
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| 10:25 | apparently neither of us can spell ubuntu today
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| 10:25 | <Zarrku_> hehe
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| 10:25 | well I knew I needed the memory
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| 10:25 | so I put 22gb of ram in the server
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| 10:26 | <vagrantc> Zarrku_: how many processors? what type? though this does sound like a software problem
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| 10:26 | <Zarrku_> its a six core amd
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| 10:26 | <vagrantc> Zarrku_: thin clients are all the same model?
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| 10:26 | <Zarrku_> yep
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| 10:26 | all dell gx150s
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| 10:27 | ther server is a poweredge a415
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| 10:28 | sorry r415
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| 10:29 | it should be more than enuff to run the clients I would hope
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| 10:29 | er enough
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| 10:30 | it makes me think its a user limit
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| 10:31 | but I've never seen a user limit in ltsp.
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| 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...
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| 10:31 | <Zarrku_> Unless you didnt have enough memory
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| 10:32 | Of course, I base that of of the ltsp 4.2 version i was running before ltsp 5
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| 10:32 | of
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| 10:32 | =
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| 10:32 | off
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| 10:34 | but thats all I know
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| 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
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| 10:51 | <vagrantc> Zarrku_: there's a finite number of concurrent processes ... i don't know what the default is these days ...
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| 10:51 | Zarrku_: it also might be a limitation of sshd ... it might only allow a certain number of connections at once
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| 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?
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| 11:01 | <vagrantc> dantix: what is your goal?
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| 11:02 | there are iPXE packages in debian's testing and unstable release...
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| 11:05 | <dantix> I want to avoid the use to boot of the cdrom, my old machines all have hds
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| 11:06 | <vagrantc> you can't configure them to boot off the network only?
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| 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
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| 11:06 | <vagrantc> they don't have built-in PXE ?
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| 11:06 | <dantix> no, they are really old and don't have that option
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| 11:06 | <vagrantc> got it
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| 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
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| 11:10 | and then you could configure a bootloader image and such
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| 11:11 | <dantix> you mean install grub?
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| 11:11 | and say it to use that kernel
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| 11:12 | <vagrantc> yup
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| 11:12 | or extlinux, or some other bootloader
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| 11:13 | <dantix> the .deb file could be "exploded" like a zip to obtain the kernel file?
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| 11:13 | <vagrantc> dpkg-deb -x foo*.deb foo
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| 11:13 | <dantix> vagrantc: thank you very much
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| 11:14 | <shawnp0wers> dantix: I did something similar, once you do it a single time, I'd recommend imaging the hard drives
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| 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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| 11:15 | <dantix> shawnp0wers: PITA?
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| 11:15 | <shawnp0wers> dantix: Sorry, "Pain In The Arse"
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| 11:15 | :)
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| 11:16 | <dantix> no problem, do you follow a guide o did it on your own?
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| 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
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| 11:16 | It was years and years ago
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| 11:16 | I think I just figured it out
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| 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 :)
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| 11:16 | <shawnp0wers> and it was an etherboot image back then
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| 11:17 | gPXE or whatever it's called now would be much nicer than etherboot
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| 11:17 | I had to have both PXE and etherboot images
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| 11:17 | it was a real pain
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| 11:17 | <vagrantc> there's a fork called iPXE :)
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| 11:18 | <shawnp0wers> heh, figures. :)
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| 11:18 | But yes, dantix, it was REALLY worth the hassle
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| 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
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| 11:18 | vagrantc: I never even had a chance to use gPXE, and it is already deprecated, story of my life
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| 11:18 | :)
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| 11:18 | <dantix> well, will see what obtain from this.... thanks both
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| 11:19 | <vagrantc> shawnp0wers: iPXE is pretty much the same
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| 11:19 | dantix: doh. replace 127.0.0.1:9999 with ftp.us.debian.org or some other mirror relevent for you :)
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| 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
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| 11:20 | <vagrantc> wow. that's old
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| 11:20 | <shawnp0wers> Yeah, they still work with LTSP 4.2 though
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| 11:20 | they've been chugging along for almost a decade
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| 11:20 | and they were WAY outdated as destkops when we got them. :)
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| 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
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| 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
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| 11:21 | I'm quite excited
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| 11:22 | thus my recent foray into the fat client world
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| 11:23 | <vagrantc> sheesh
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| 11:55 | <andygraybeal> shawnp0wers, that's awesome
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| 12:04 | <alkisg> shawnp0wers: openoffice (not libreoffice, haven't tried that yet) works fine with fat clients/nfs home here
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| 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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| 12:06 | <shawnp0wers> I installed libreoffice and firefox4 via ppa but I think perhaps that was dumb
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| 12:06 | :)
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| 12:09 | <alkisg> dantix: do your old machines have an OS in their hard disks? Like e.g. windows 98?
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| 12:34 | <dantix> alkisg: hi, yes for now have win95
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| 12:39 | <alkisg> dantix: here's *one* method: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/UbuntuLTSP/grubgpxe#Boot%20from%20a%20Windows%2095/98/Me%20partition
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| 12:39 | Of course, another method would be to install grub + ipxe.lkrn
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| 12:39 | And yet another to dd ipxe.usb
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| 12:41 | <dantix> alkisg: thanks a lot
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| 12:49 | <tastle73> short question
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| 12:53 | <alkisg> Too short, we didn't even see it :D
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| 12:54 | <dantix> :D
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| 13:04 | <tastle73> sorry
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| 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
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| 13:04 | <tastle73> what does this mean?
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| 13:04 | [ 24.547318] nbd9: unknown partition table
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| 13:04 | [ 24.575254] nbd9: NBD_DISCONNECT
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| 13:04 | [ 24.576265] nbd9: Receive control failed (result -32)
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| 13:04 | [ 24.576716] nbd9: queue cleared
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| 13:05 | I see it a lot, often people cannot login and this is logged
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| 13:09 | <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
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| 13:10 | So what is your actual problem? That sometimes people cannot login? And then if you e.g. retry, they can login normally?
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| 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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| 13:12 | <tastle73> I just was helping somebody where the login screen kept looping them around and I saw this in dmesg
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| 13:13 | <tastle73> I rebuilt the chroot and also commented out LDM_DIRECTX in lts.conf and suddenly they could get in
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| 13:17 | <Ghidorah> Anyone know of a way to automount user shares upon logon... other than pam_mount?
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| 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
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| 13:22 | Ghidorah: not ltsp related... but anyway, what user shares? Their home dirs? And what fstype are they?
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| 13:24 | <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.
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| 13:24 | <alkisg> I think someone did that with likewise
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| 13:25 | <Ghidorah> hrm, I got likewise-open6 for AD authentication
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| 13:26 | the interesting bit is
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| 13:26 | if I log in locally say to app server1
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| 13:26 | pamount works
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| 13:26 | but if I log in from a terminal
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| 13:26 | it doesn't work
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| 13:34 | <cybertimber2009_> *knock knock* anyone home?
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| 13:34 | <alkisg> "70 people in room" :)
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| 13:34 | <cybertimber2009_> noted. hi all
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| 13:35 | I just got LTSP on fedora up and running <3 wanted to come and share
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| 13:37 | <vagrantc> has fedora updated to ltsp 5.2 yet?
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| 13:37 | <alkisg> Warren gave up on ltsp
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| 13:37 | No plans to upgrade
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| 13:37 | <vagrantc> someone else started to do something with it
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| 13:38 | <alkisg> da-geek, but he gave up too after the last mails from warren
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| 13:42 | vagrantc: https://www.redhat.com/archives/k12osn/2011-May/msg00054.html
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| 13:43 | <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
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| 13:43 | <alkisg> cybertimber2009_: read that mailing list thread too
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| 13:43 | <cybertimber2009_> was opening as I finished typing
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| 13:44 | <alkisg> I think the result is "won't work on LTSP unless someone gives financial support"
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| 13:46 | <mgariepy> any of you had problem with openoffice when printing large (~120 pages) file on thin client ?
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| 13:46 | <cybertimber2009_> :( and yet I understand where they are coming from
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| 14:00 | <vagrantc> alkisg: wow. warren is really grumpy.
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| 14:19 | <midasxl42> alkisg: i'll give that a try thanks :)
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| 14:21 | <vagrantc> huh.
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| 14:21 | so a strategy for fedora/redhat is to use Debian's LTSP? wow.
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| 14:21 | what a curious day.
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| 14:22 | <highvoltage> vagrantc: :)
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| 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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| 14:23 | (oh right, I think I needed to upload it somewhere)
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| 14:34 | <dantix> bye Sirs o/
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| 14:38 | <vagrantc> highvoltage: give me a url to the source package, and i can upload it
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| 14:55 | <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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| 16:01 | <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..
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| 16:08 | <dubkat> that's an improvment, right?
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| 16:13 | <midasxl42> nope i get no desktop
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| 16:13 | just a black screen and a mouse pointer
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| 16:34 | <vagrantc> midasxl42: what linux distribution and version?
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| 16:35 | <midasxl42> edubuntu 10.4.2
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| 16:36 | <vagrantc> so they boot from the network, and just get a blank screen?
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| 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
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| 16:37 | <vagrantc> midasxl42: did you add any settings in lts.conf?
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| 16:37 | <midasxl42> no i have not
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| 16:37 | <vagrantc> sounds like someone tried to configure it to use XDMCP, and the server isn't configured to use XDMCP
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| 16:38 | <midasxl42> i see
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| 16:38 | <vagrantc> but if you haven't modified anything, it should default to using ssh ...
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| 16:38 | X over ssh, that is...
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| 16:38 | anyways, i gotta run. sorry i couldn't be more help
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| 16:39 | <midasxl42> i had that problem before with 10.4.2 and went back to 10.4.1 and it alll worked
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| 16:39 | thats cool
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| 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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| 16:40 | <vagrantc> maybe video driver issues ...
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| 16:40 | midasxl42: are all your thin clients the same or similar models? could you try with somthing different?
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| 16:41 | good luck! :)
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| 22:26 | <nitin> arp time out is oming again and agin on pxe boot
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| 22:26 | #networking
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| 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
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| 23:03 | so can anybody help me out reagrding this
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| 23:50 | <alkisg> Good morning
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| 23:54 | nitin: you want to netboot computers without tftp?
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