On Fri, Feb 5, 2010 at 10:06 AM, P. Scott DeVos <sc...@4ahomes.com> wrote:
> I solved some problems.
>
> On Wed, 2010-02-03 at 18:47 -0600, P. Scott DeVos wrote:
>> Has anyone gotten ltsp to work on Fedora 11 running x86_64 for thin
>> clients running i386?  I'm having trouble.  Here are the problems I
>> have:
>>
>> 1. Uses NFS instead of NBD.  Not a disaster, but why?
>
> Still using NFS.  Does anyone know if the Fedora packages set up NFS by
> default or if I am doing something wrong?

Did you take a look at this:
https://fedorahosted.org/k12linux/wiki/NBDRootConfiguration

I imagine it may be that way because the NBD image needs to be
recreated each time the client chroot is updated, or maybe just
hysterical porpoises...

>> 2. /etc/initramfs-tools directory not created.  This, of course,
>> prevents me from fixing 1. above.
>> 3. No /etc/default/ltsp-client-setup script installed.
>
> Does anyone know how Fedora handles the fact that these scripts are not
> created?  Are there equivalent tools in Fedora?
>
>> 4. When my EEE PC 700 thin-client boots, the sound and microphone are
>> turned up so loud there is terrible feedback which I can only stop by
>> plugging in a pair of headphones.
>
> Still no solution to this other than turning off internal speakers in
> BIOS (no bios setting for microphone, fortunately).
>
> So what is the correct way to adjust the volume on the client?  I have
> tried the gnome volume control, sound properties and the alsamixer and
> cannot get the volume control for recording or playback to change.
>
>
>> 5. I cannot log in.  LDM says "No Response from server, restarting"
>
> I use a nonstandard port for ssh.  I didn't think that was a problem
> because the default fedora lts.conf script has LDM_DIRECTX=yes which I
> thought meant traffic is unencrypted.  Anyhow, SSH_OVERRIDE_PORT=<my
> port> solved this problem.
>
>> 6. I cannot update the client image.  If I attempt to chroot into the
>> client image and run yum update I get the following error: "IOError:
>> [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '/proc/cpuinfo'".
>
> I solved this by copying the /proc/cpuinfo file from one of my i386
> clients to /opt/ltsp/i386/proc/cpuinfo.  Does anyone have any reason to
> believe that this is a Bad Idea (TM)?

Do you "setarch i386" before you chroot?

--
Dan Young <dyo...@mesd.k12.or.us>
Multnomah ESD - Technology Services
503-257-1562

------------------------------------------------------------------------------
The Planet: dedicated and managed hosting, cloud storage, colocation
Stay online with enterprise data centers and the best network in the business
Choose flexible plans and management services without long-term contracts
Personal 24x7 support from experience hosting pros just a phone call away.
http://p.sf.net/sfu/theplanet-com
_____________________________________________________________________
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

Reply via email to