On Monday 15 March 2004 16:38, you wrote: > Jef, > > Try setting 'SCREEN_01 = shell' up in the [Default] section, > see if you can get a shell. If you can, > then run: > > hostname > > Make sure the workstation knows its own name. > > If it does, then try running: > > getltscfg -a > > See if the parameters returned are what you would expect. no, still black screen, no cursor. I must say that it works with X, and i can ping the hostname and so. But even when i start with SCREEN = shell, the logfile still says Mar 15 16:43:29 ws003 syslogd started: BusyBox v0.60.4 (2003.12.16-08:09+0000) Mar 15 16:43:30 ws003 init: Entering runlevel: 5 Shouldn't that be runlevel 3 ?
jef > > Jim McQuillan > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > On Mon, 15 Mar 2004, jef peeraer wrote: > > On Monday 15 March 2004 14:45, you wrote: > > > On Mon, 15 Mar 2004, jef peeraer wrote: > > > > i am running ltsp-4 on a suse 8.2 server. thinclients are working > > > > well ( except from some networking trouble i have, e.g overruns ) > > > > i defined a shell ( init 3 ) on screen 02, but when i try to go there > > > > ( ctrl + alt + f2 ), the screen turns black but no prompt appears on > > > > the screen. the thinclient is a epia- ve5000 with integrated trident > > > > blade 3d graphics core. > > > > > > Try setting SCREEN_01 = shell, just to see if the thin client is > > > picking up its parameters. > > > > same effect, black screen ,no cursor > > > > > If it isn't, it could be because the workstation doesn't know its own > > > hostname. Check dhcpd.conf for the: > > > > > > use-host-decl-names on; > > > > was there already > > > > > Also, if you are assigning random IP addresses to the workstations, > > > they won't get a hostname. In that case, you'll need to use the MAC > > > address in the lts.conf file, rather than the hostname. > > > > i am using static ip adresses for the thins, hostnames are defined in > > /etc/hosts > > > > > Jim McQuillan > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: IBM Linux Tutorials Free Linux tutorial presented by Daniel Robbins, President and CEO of GenToo technologies. Learn everything from fundamentals to system administration.http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id70&alloc_id638&op=click _____________________________________________________________________ Ltsp-discuss mailing list. To un-subscribe, or change prefs, goto: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ltsp-discuss For additional LTSP help, try #ltsp channel on irc.freenode.net
