IRC chat logs for #ltsp on irc.libera.chat (webchat)
Channel log from 30 October 2011 (all times are UTC)
| 00:13 | <bac__> How is the Wiki going?
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| 08:41 | <Hyperbyte> bac__, hm?
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| 10:34 | <nubae> !seen alkisg
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| 10:34 | <ltsp> nubae: alkisg was last seen in #ltsp 16 hours, 1 minute, and 0 seconds ago: * alkisg is trying to put ssl support in epoptes :(
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| 10:34 | <nubae> !seen hyperbyte
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| 10:34 | <ltsp> nubae: hyperbyte was last seen in #ltsp 1 hour, 53 minutes, and 2 seconds ago: <Hyperbyte> bac__, hm?
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| 10:35 | <nubae> Hyperbyte, ah u are there.... :-)
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| 10:35 | maybe u can help me with a question... I want all my fat clients to have non-priveledged access to their hds
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| 10:35 | easy way to do that?
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| 12:55 | <laurei> hello ltspers
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| 12:56 | i have a problem installing graphics card in the chroot because i believe it's trying to probe for it, what should I do?
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| 13:09 | <Hyperbyte> laurei, install the kernel module manually
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| 14:01 | <alkisg> laurei: which graphics card? nvidia?
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| 18:19 | <lifeboy> Hi all
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| 18:19 | I get "Error: failed to connect to NBD Server 172.16.0.1:2000"
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| 18:20 | but I have read almost all reports of this condition and nothing I can find applies
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| 18:20 | Server: Ubuntu Server 10:10 64bit
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| 18:20 | Client: Vortex86MX 1GHz, 1GB RAM.
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| 18:21 | On the server nbd-server listens in port 2000 and there is actually a connection from the client!
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| 18:21 | # netstat -tunap | grep 2000
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| 18:22 | tcp 0 0 0.0.0.0:2000 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN 5949/inetd
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| 18:22 | tcp 0 0 172.16.0.1:2000 172.16.0.24:48051 ESTABLISHED 12839/sh
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| 18:22 | Anyone that can help trace this problem?
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| 18:23 | Please? ;-)
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| 18:49 | <laurei> i am trying to install fglrx for an ATI radeon 5450
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| 18:50 | but the card is installed on a fat client, not the server, so the installation fails
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| 18:56 | <NeonLicht> Have you installed it into the chroot?
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| 19:01 | <Hyperbyte> lifeboy, try telnetting to port 2000 from a machine in the same network as your client, see if you can get a connection.
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| 19:04 | <laurei> yeah ive installed in the chroot but it wants to modprobe and it fails
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| 19:24 | <laurei> thanks, i got it working installing the repo driver instead of the website driver
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| 19:32 | <lifeboy> Hyperbyte, yes, connection in fine
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| 19:32 | is fine, I mean
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| 19:34 | <lifeboy> Here's what syslog says on the server:
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| 19:34 | Oct 30 19:57:56 Ashton nbdrootd[12839]: connect from 172.16.0.24 (172.16.0.24)
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| 19:34 | Oct 30 19:57:56 Ashton nbd_server[12840]: connect from 172.16.0.24, assigned file is /opt/ltsp/images/i386.img
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| 19:34 | Oct 30 19:57:56 Ashton nbd_server[12840]: Size of exported file/device is 916684800
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| 19:34 | But shortly after that, the client gives the error message
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| 19:35 | I also tried the nbd commands from busybox, but something is wrong, although I don't know what
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| 19:36 | Here are the commands (I looked in ltsp_nbd script)
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| 19:36 | nbd-proxy 172.16.0.1 2000 2000
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| 19:36 | Response: Hangup
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| 19:36 | then I do
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| 19:37 | nbd-client 127.0.0.1 2000 /dev/nbd0
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| 19:37 | and I get back:
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| 19:38 | Error: Cannot open NBD: No such file or directory
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| 19:38 | Please ensure the 'nbd' module is loaded
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| 19:38 | 'modprobe -l | grep nbd' returns nothing
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| 19:39 | <Hyperbyte> !disable-nbd-proxy
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| 19:39 | <ltsp> Hyperbyte: disable-nbd-proxy: To disable nbd-proxy on Ubuntu Lucid (10.04) and Maverick (10.10), follow the instructions in comment #13 in this link: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ltsp/+bug/589034
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| 19:40 | <Hyperbyte> Probably not related, but do that anyways.
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| 19:42 | <lifeboy> Hmmm... I'll go do that, but is that standard? I used ltsp-make-client to create a 32bit Lucid client.
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| 19:43 | <Hyperbyte> ltsp-build-client you mean?
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| 19:43 | nbd-proxy is enabled by default on 10.04 and 10.11, but it's causing lots of problems. Disabled again by default as of 11.04
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| 19:44 | Try disabling it first, to make sure it's not causing this problem as well.
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| 19:45 | <lifeboy> Ah, yes, I'm reading that thread now. I have a fast switch (HP ProCurve) and a "slower" client, although not an Atom. Let's see
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| 20:01 | <lifeboy> Hyperbyte, yes, I meant ltsp-build-client. However, disabling the proxy and loading the never version of ltsp_nbd script, only results in multiple retries on the nbd connect.
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| 20:02 | <lifeboy> I still get repeated similar errors as before
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| 20:04 | Should I be worried that there is no kernel module 'nbd' on the thin client OS's busybox?
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| 20:05 | Or is that just busybox's way or guessing what a problem could be?
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| 20:17 | <vagrantc> yay: http://packages.qa.debian.org/libp/libpam-sshauth/news/20111030T130225Z.html
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| 21:01 | <lifeboy> I have restarted the server for good measure, just incase I missed some service and to see what would happen. Now I don't see nbd-server messages in syslog anymore, but if I telnet to the service it's ready:
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| 21:01 | telnet 172.16.0.1 2001
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| 21:01 | Trying 172.16.0.1...
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| 21:01 | Connected to 172.16.0.1.
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| 21:01 | Escape character is '^]'.
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| 21:01 | NBDMAGICB��S6��^]
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| 21:01 | telnet> quit
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| 21:01 | Connection closed.
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| 21:01 | roland@Ashton:~$
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| 21:02 | And the client says: Failed to connect to NBD server 172.16.0.1:2001
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| 21:03 | as a results of the previously mentioned:
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| 21:03 | "Error: Cannot open NBD: No such file or directory
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| 21:03 | Please ensure the 'nbd' module is loaded"
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| 21:17 | <lifeboy> What else can I check? nbd-server (nbdrootd) is running on port 2001, nbd-proxy is disabled, network is up, all seems well, except it isnt'! :-(
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| 21:18 | <vagrantc> can a client on that network actually get to the ip address? is there a firewall on the server?
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| 21:23 | <lifeboy> vagrantc, yes, the client actually boots fine, get's a DHCP address and connects to the server on nbd port 2001. I can also boot my notebook with a standard i386 client image. The modified image for the vortex86 chip just has the network card (r6040), sound and video added in.
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| 21:23 | There's not firewall at the moment. Just one server and one client I'm using to set this up.
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| 21:24 | All my other LTSP servers are running Maverick 10.10 without problems... out of the box with similar clients (eBox 4300), although they have VIA processors rather than Vortex86's
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| 21:26 | I don't want to go to other releases at this stage. All on 10.10 is better from a support perspective. I was running 10.04, but some applications forced me to upgrade a while ago to 10.10.
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| 21:26 | <vagrantc> lifeboy: so it's a specific machine that's not working, but others on the same network work fine?
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| 22:44 | <lifeboy> Well, these Vortex86 machines require a customised boot image, so when I boot a standard image with it, I get an error that says I should use a kernel without cmov support. On the other hand when I try to boot my laptop, which boot fines with a standard lucid i386 image, I get a kernel panic since the vortex86 image doesn't boot a standard pentium class machine.
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| 22:46 | <vagrantc> didn't ubuntu completely drop support for pre i686 kernels?
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| 22:47 | <lifeboy> So in a way, it's only these clients, yes, but I have a whole lot of them that I need to deploy. I have a flashcard image that runs fine locally, but cannot find any documentation on how to integrate LTSP client-script into an image like that, except for one very high-level document on it.
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| 22:47 | Only after Lucid. Maverick was the first release that dropped it.
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| 22:47 | <vagrantc> ah
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| 22:47 | try a debian -486 kernel?
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| 22:48 | <lifeboy> Which is why I'm booting the client with 10.04
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| 22:49 | <lifeboy> I could, although it will prove a major mission, since I can't find any documentation on how to load another client with Ubuntu (or ltsp for that matter). Do you have something that I don't know of / can't find?
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| 22:49 | <vagrantc> you mean how to load specific clients with a different kernel?
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| 22:50 | <lifeboy> no, all my clients going forward will be the same
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| 22:50 | oh, yes, I mistunderstood that
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| 22:50 | <alkisg> lifeboy: so you built a customized initrd? Maybe you forgot to force loading of the nbd module?
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| 22:51 | Try it from the initramfs> prompt, to modprobe nbd
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| 22:51 | <vagrantc> alkisg: working on epoptes hoping to upload to experimental soonish
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| 22:51 | <alkisg> vagrantc: cool, I just made a first successful attempt of integrading openssl, I'll have it ready in a couple of days
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| 22:51 | <lifeboy> Nope, as far as I can tell it's there in the config, but it's not on client when I check it with modprobe. Which is why I asked earlier about that.
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| 22:51 | <alkisg> You home already?
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| 22:52 | <vagrantc> alkisg: no, in boston for a night
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| 22:52 | <alkisg> Ah. We lost our flight and are still in WC :
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| 22:52 | :(
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| 22:52 | <vagrantc> alkisg: i figured i'd get it uploaded to experimental, and then it'll be easier when ssl support is ready
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| 22:52 | <alkisg> We'll arrive in orlando about ... 11pm
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| 22:52 | Yup, having it in experimental would be awesome ;)
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| 22:53 | <vagrantc> you're still in the WC?
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| 22:53 | <alkisg> Yes, all 3 of us, and the plane is delayed 2 hours etc....
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| 22:53 | lifeboy: so if you manually run modprobe, does it succeed then?
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| 22:54 | <vagrantc> alkisg: so, i went ahead and switched to dh --with python2, instead of pycentral, as ftp-master might not accept pycentral for something new (since it's deprecated)
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| 22:54 | <alkisg> Also, ok, you need a custom kernel, but why a custom initramfs?
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| 22:54 | The code there needs to be recompiled for non-686?
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| 22:54 | <vagrantc> lifeboy: does your initramfs have different kernel modules than the running version of the kernel?
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| 22:54 | <alkisg> vagrantc: np, we'll use that in 12.04 anyway which contains python2
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| 22:55 | <vagrantc> alkisg: i've pushed my own branch to alioth so i can hack on it and maybe merge with yours later
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| 22:56 | <alkisg> vagrantc: OK, I'll check later on if launchpad would accept a recipy with remote branches - otherwise I'll just copy your debian/
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| 22:56 | <vagrantc> alkisg: you can also have launchpad mirror my branch (once it's actually published ... it may take a bit)
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| 22:57 | <lifeboy> vagrantc: I have /opt/ltsp/i386/usr/share/initramfs-tools/scripts/local-top/nbd on the server. And also
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| 22:57 | /opt/ltsp/i386/usr/share/initramfs-tools/hooks/nbd
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| 22:57 | . /usr/share/initramfs-tools/hook-functions
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| 22:57 | <alkisg> vagrantc: nice, I didn't know that
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| 22:57 | <lifeboy> force_load nbd
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| 22:57 | auto_add_modules net
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| 22:57 | copy_exec /sbin/nbd-client /sbin
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| 22:58 | <alkisg> lifeboy: so if you do it manually from the prompt, does it work?
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| 22:58 | modprobe nbd, and then run nbd-client server port /dev/nbd0
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| 22:58 | <lifeboy> no, it doesn't.
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| 22:59 | modprobe nbd returns nothing
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| 22:59 | <alkisg> Is nbd there?
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| 22:59 | in /lib/modules etc
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| 22:59 | <vagrantc> uname -r and /lib/modules/$(uname -r) present?
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| 22:59 | <lifeboy> Ah, wait, if it says nothing, it means that it's ok, it had loaded?
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| 23:00 | eh, has loaded
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| 23:00 | <vagrantc> not necessarily
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| 23:01 | <alkisg> lsmod would tell you
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| 23:01 | or ls /dev/nbd*
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| 23:02 | You can also use insmod once you locate the nbd module path
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| 23:02 | <lifeboy> When I do nbd-client 172.16.0.1 2001 /dev/nbd0 I get the error:
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| 23:02 | Error: Cannot open NBD: No such file or directory
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| 23:02 | Please nsure the 'nbd' module is loaded
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| 23:02 | <alkisg> Try the modprobing thing first
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| 23:02 | If you see that your nbd module isn't there, you'll know your problem
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| 23:04 | <lifeboy> nbd is not there, that I know, but I wasn't shure that it was needed (as a module)
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| 23:04 | <alkisg> It is
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| 23:04 | You should see it in /lib/modules/kernelver/kernel/drivers/block/nbd.ko
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| 23:05 | If it's not there, that's the problem
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| 23:05 | <vagrantc> is it a custom kernel?
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| 23:06 | <lifeboy> No, standard lucid
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| 23:06 | 32 bt
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| 23:07 | On the server that is what I can find:
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| 23:07 | # find / -name "nbd.*"
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| 23:07 | /opt/ltsp/i386/usr/include/linux/nbd.h
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| 23:07 | /opt/ltsp/i386/usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.32-34/include/linux/nbd.h
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| 23:07 | /opt/ltsp/i386/usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.32-34-generic/include/linux/nbd.h
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| 23:07 | /opt/ltsp/i386/usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.32-34-generic/include/config/blk/dev/nbd.h
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| 23:07 | /opt/ltsp/i386/lib/modules/2.6.32-34-generic/kernel/drivers/block/nbd.ko
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| 23:08 | <vagrantc> from the booted initramfs, do you have the nbd.ko file?
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| 23:09 | alkisg: i'm working on building some virtual machines to test with ... if those ever finish, i'll test epoptes and upload
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| 23:09 | <alkisg> vagrantc: you can also use xnest and fool epoptes that you're using a standalone machine
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| 23:10 | Using VMs or LTSP isn't strictly necessary...
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| 23:10 | <vagrantc> no, but i'd like to keep it isolated
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| 23:10 | <alkisg> But sure VMs is the easiest way :)
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| 23:10 | <lifeboy> Is that the one that Ubuntu's 'ltsp-build-client --dist=lucid --arch=i386' should have installed?
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| 23:11 | I have /opt/ltsp/i386/lib/modules/2.6.32-34-generic/kernel/drivers/block/nbd.ko
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| 23:11 | <alkisg> lifeboy: the problem is that you don't copy the module to the initramfs. One of your initramfs hooks isn't working
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| 23:11 | Check if you're missing one of the ltsp files there under initramfs-tools/
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| 23:11 | <vagrantc> does ubuntu have lsinitramfs?
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| 23:11 | <lifeboy> yes
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| 23:12 | <alkisg> I don't see it in my lucid...
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| 23:13 | <lifeboy> My server runs Maverick
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| 23:13 | 64bit
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| 23:14 | <alkisg> ok
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| 23:14 | <lifeboy> vagrantc: which ltsp files/scripts should be under initramfs-tools?
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| 23:15 | * vagrantc was trying to determine if the booted kernel and initramfs are the same version ... | |
| 23:16 | <vagrantc> so it doesn't matter what's on the server, like alkisg keeps saying, check in the booted initramfs
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| 23:16 | <lifeboy> You mean, on the client in busybox?
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| 23:17 | <vagrantc> yes!
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| 23:17 | troubleshoot the problem where the problem is occurring :)
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| 23:19 | <lifeboy> Ok I only have hid/ net/ staging/ usb/ and video/ in the kernel/drivers dir on the client
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| 23:20 | no block/
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| 23:20 | <vagrantc> what's the output of: uname -r
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| 23:20 | <lifeboy> 2.6.34.1-vortex86-sg
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| 23:21 | <vagrantc> and is there /lib/modules/2.6.34.1-vortex86-sg ?
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| 23:21 | <lifeboy> yes
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| 23:21 | <vagrantc> this is a standard ubuntu kernel?
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| 23:22 | <lifeboy> yes, but norhtec provides a .deb that patched the ethernet, sound and video drivers into the kernel (as they put it)
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| 23:23 | <vagrantc> it seems like they built a non-standard kernel
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| 23:24 | grep NBD /opt/ltsp/i386/boot/config-*
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| 23:25 | <lifeboy> # CONFIG_BLK_DEV_NBD is not set
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| 23:25 | <vagrantc> there's your problem
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| 23:25 | no NBD support in your kernel
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| 23:26 | this doesn't sound like a standard ubuntu kernel at all
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| 23:26 | lifeboy: so the kernel shipped with ubuntu didn't work?
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| 23:27 | <miks> Alright guys, I've finally got my lab up and running for the time being, but it took rolling back to Ubuntu 9.10 to do it :-(
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| 23:28 | <lifeboy> Hmm... This is weird. Let me look at the contents of their patch deb file again. It's all pretty new to me, I've never dug in these things before.
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| 23:28 | <vagrantc> miks: that was with the wrong video port problem?
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| 23:28 | <lifeboy> The kernel needs the Realtec r6040 ethernet driver to boot, which is why sent me the .deb to install
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| 23:28 | <miks> Yeah
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| 23:28 | Never got those machines working under anything latet than 9.10
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| 23:29 | <Hyperbyte> miks, I had the same problem with my thin clients on Ubuntu 11.04. It's easily fixed with some lts.conf/xorg.conf options.
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| 23:29 | <miks> So I've got 9.10 running now, with an intention to upgrade later this year to something recent, and deal with those machines then
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| 23:29 | I had to just get things running, so the students could get in there tomorrow. I've had the lab closed too long already
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| 23:29 | Over winter vacation I'll do some more 11.04 testing when my blood pressure is back down :-)
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| 23:30 | The one thing I can't get working in 9.10 though, is shutting down the thin-clients automatically with CRON
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| 23:30 | I set it all up according to documentation, but the time for the cron job comes and goes and nothing happens
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| 23:31 | <lifeboy> vagrantc: The kernel that shipped with Ubuntu Lucid panics as soon as the network driver is not found.
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| 23:31 | <alkisg> lifeboy: just put the network driver there
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| 23:31 | It was a bug in the initramfs-tools, it was fixed in later versions
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| 23:31 | !adding-modules
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| 23:31 | <ltsp> alkisg: adding-modules: If your clients won't boot with messages like 'eth0: link not ready', maybe you're missing an initramfs-module: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/UbuntuLTSP/AddingModules
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| 23:31 | <miks> Any ideas where to look to see what's going wrong? Or alternatively, making it so you can actually use the "Shut Down" button with thin clients (with autologin, Shut Down results in a login loop)
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| 23:31 | <vagrantc> miks: the CRON support may be broken in the version you're running
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| 23:32 | <miks> Doh :-(
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| 23:32 | <lifeboy> I started with this 3 days and know a great deal more by now that I did then. Maybe I should do a clean client install and add the drivers by hand
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| 23:32 | <alkisg> lifeboy: which network driver is that?
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| 23:32 | atl1c?
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| 23:32 | <vagrantc> miks: use guestlogin and timedlogin instead of autologin
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| 23:32 | <miks> Oooh
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| 23:32 | I'm not familiar with those
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| 23:33 | Will that make it so that the "Shut Down" option in Ubuntu actually shuts down the thin client?
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| 23:33 | <vagrantc> miks: check the lts.conf manpage ...
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| 23:33 | !lts.conf
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| 23:33 | <ltsp> vagrantc: lts.conf: http://manpages.ubuntu.com/lts.conf
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| 23:33 | <lifeboy> no, r6040
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| 23:33 | <miks> I'll check it out right now
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| 23:34 | <vagrantc> miks: it will prevent the login loop, but you need to do more to get the shutdown button to actually work as expected
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| 23:34 | <miks> Vagrant: I'm hoping to pick up some more machines and keyboards from Nate this week, so I hope to replace the 3 troublemaking computers with those
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| 23:34 | <vagrantc> the shutdown button works properly with LXDE in debian testing :)
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| 23:35 | <alkisg> lifeboy: ah, I think I remember someone having a problem with that driver, but we helped him solve it. Check the logs in the /topic.
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| 23:36 | <miks> Throwing in LXDE at this point might panic teachers and students. Anything I can do to get the shutdown button working properly in Gnome on 9.10?
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| 23:36 | <vagrantc> not sure what version ubuntu introduced the shutdown features
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| 23:36 | and not sure if it's automatic
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| 23:37 | <miks> Ah
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| 23:37 | <alkisg> miks: you mean the shutdown menu inside the gnome session?
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| 23:37 | <vagrantc> it feels like a long time ago ... but since i don't use ubuntu i don't know what versions are even possible to suppotr
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| 23:37 | <miks> Yes
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| 23:37 | <lifeboy> So will the mkinitramfs command automagically make all the kernel modules that are placed in /opt/ltsp/i386/lib/modules/2.6.32-34-generic/kernel/drivers/block/nbd.ko (in the case of the kernel I'm using here) available to the client in booting? Or do these have to be compiled "in" to be supported?
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| 23:37 | <miks> The gnome shutdown. If there's some way to make a shortcut that does it, I could put that on desktops even
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| 23:38 | <alkisg> miks: I've a ppa with a patched gnome-session for that, it works in 10.04 and maybe in 9.10, I don't remember. I'd suggest you used 10.04 instead, and just use xrandr for the problematic clients.
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| 23:38 | The desktops part is easier
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| 23:38 | <vagrantc> lifeboy: if you're using a properly packaged kernel, initramfs-tools will include all the right modules in most cases ...
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| 23:39 | <miks> Well I can easily make a shortcut and lock it on everyone's desktop, if I can figure out how to make it work
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| 23:39 | <alkisg> miks: There's a shutdown.desktop example somewhere in the ltsp package
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| 23:40 | ./localapps/doc/examples/ltsp-shutdown.desktop
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| 23:40 | ./localapps/doc/examples/ltsp-restart.desktop
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| 23:40 | !ltsp-source
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| 23:40 | <ltsp> alkisg: ltsp-source: at http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~ltsp-upstream/ltsp/ltsp-trunk/files
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| 23:41 | <alkisg> miks: so, download the examples from: http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~ltsp-upstream/ltsp/ltsp-trunk/files/head:/localapps/doc/examples/
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| 23:42 | <miks> Got it. So I just save this as a .desktop file on the thin client, and then running the file should shut it down?
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| 23:42 | <lifeboy> vagrantc: I principle I understand that, but I just "add the r0604 network module" and the kernel doesn't know it, will it work? (by just adding the module I mean adding it to /opt/ltsp/i386/etc/initramfs-tools/modules)
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| 23:42 | <vagrantc> i think that depends on features introduced later
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| 23:43 | <alkisg> miks: just, if you put them on the menus or on the user desktops, clicking on those files would shutdown the client
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| 23:43 | <vagrantc> lifeboy: i think you'll need to add it to a hook to actually include it
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| 23:44 | <miks> alkisg: Awesome. I'll give this some testing later tonight when I'm back in the lab
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| 23:44 | <alkisg> lifeboy: I added a hook for the inclusion process in the wiki page I pasted above
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| 23:44 | <lifeboy> https://help.ubuntu.com/community/UbuntuLTSP/AddingModules Yes, just reading that now
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| 23:44 | Thanks
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| 23:45 | <vagrantc> miks: that feature depends on code that was added two months after 9.10 was released...
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| 23:45 | <miks> Oh snap!
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| 23:46 | :-(
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| 23:46 | <vagrantc> though you could manually add a few more files and it should work...
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| 23:46 | <miks> What files would I need?
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| 23:47 | <alkisg> vagrantc: what part? xprop etc? it should work in 9.10 afaik...
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| 23:48 | <vagrantc> alkisg: the ltsp-logout-action code was first introduced in 12/2009
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| 23:48 | (well, at first it was ldm-logout-action)
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| 23:48 | <alkisg> Hm. I remember using that with 9.10, but maybe I was using my ppa...
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| 23:49 | <vagrantc> using xatoms/xprop ... there might have been an earlier implementation that should work
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| 23:49 | miks: it's a little tricky to support something so old
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| 23:49 | <miks> I know
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| 23:49 | <Hyperbyte> miks, not to rub it in - but a few days ago I told you solving this problem with proper xrandr config for the machines would be easiest.
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| 23:49 | <miks> Hyperbyte - I know, but I didn't get anywhere with it
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| 23:50 | <Hyperbyte> (I guess I am kinda rubbing it in, a little) :)
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| 23:50 | <miks> I've spent a TON of hours in this lab over the last few weeks, and am burning out fast
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| 23:50 | <alkisg> miks: if you put another monitor, did you get a visible screen?
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| 23:50 | <miks> Yeah
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| 23:50 | <alkisg> And you tried xrandr --output xxx --off --output yyy --auto, and it didn't work?
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| 23:50 | <miks> Correct
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| 23:50 | I never got the maine screen working
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| 23:51 | The external screen shut off, but the main one never turned on
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| 23:51 | <alkisg> Not even with the gnome monitor settings dialog?
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| 23:51 | <miks> Correct. Not even in gnome
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| 23:52 | <alkisg> OK, you probably needed a module parameter then. Which graphics card is this? Intel?
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| 23:53 | <miks> Yeah, they are Gateway Profile 4 machines, which I believe use Integrated Intel
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| 23:54 | <alkisg> video:lvds-1:d
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| 23:55 | <miks> I have to run and pick up my son now, but I'll be back on later. Thank you all for your help! I'm hoping I can get some replacement machines from FreeGeek this week, and upgrade everything to 11.10 so I'm up to date
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| 23:55 | alkisg: How do i implement that?
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| 23:55 | <alkisg> It's something like this, if you ever put 10.04 or a newer version back, tell me to look at my notes
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| 23:56 | You put that in pxelinux.cfg/default, or you use a modprobe.conf snippet, I think Hyperbyte has one
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| 23:57 | <alkisg> Let's tackle it after the upgrade
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