Package: initrd-netboot-tools Followup-For: Bug #298787 Info from http://bugs.skolelinux.no/991
While we have tested the new LTSP a lot on different thin clients, there was one important test that we had not done yet. And that one was big-scale testing. What we found out yesterday, is that there is some kind of locking problem, that we dont see when we test with one client at the time, but that hits us hard when using more than one client. What happens is when you boot more than 1 client at once, all but 1 clients are experiencing NFS-timouts Also, if you have some clients already booted, and ready to use, log in on one ore more of them, then boot a new clients, you will experience that your clients are locked while the last client is booting. I'm not sure what happens if you have successfully booted some clients and log in on them (without booting more clients). We have experienced this on one network with different servers. We would also like to hear from others with a bigscale installation with the new ltsp-setup. ------- Additional Comment I found what package is causing this, and maybe then someone can tell what is wrong with the package. It looks like initrd-netboot-tools from etch has some problems. If I use initrd-netboot-tools from sarge, my little test-network here which consists of an old workstation as server, and 2 thin clients booting PXE, behaves much better. so here is my preliminary advise for those who want to use pr06 and the new ltsp: echo "deb http://ftp.debian.org/debian sarge main contrib" >> \ /opt/ltsp/i386/etc/apt/sources.list mount -t proc proc /opt/ltsp/i386/proc chroot /opt/ltsp/i386/ apt-get update chroot /opt/ltsp/i386/ apt-get install \ initrd-netboot-tools=0.5.3cvs.20040906-16 chroot /opt/ltsp/i386/ dpkg-reconfigure kernel-image-2.4.27-2-386 ln -sf /opt/ltsp/i386/boot/vmlinuz /opt/ltsp/i386/boot/initrd.img \ /var/lib/tftpboot/ltsp ------- Additional Comment tested on 4 lessdisks clients booting at the same time. worked as expected. -- System Information: Debian Release: 3.1 Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.13-x300 Locale: LANG=nb_NO, LC_CTYPE=nb_NO (charmap=ISO-8859-1) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
