[Ltsp-discuss] ltsp4.1-hangs at pivot root

2004-12-03 Thread pandarinathan raman
I am trying to install ltsp4.1 on a debian sarge system with pxe boot client. The kernel gets loaded. It mounts the root file system from the ltsp server over nfs.After displaying the message "doing pivot_root" following errors are reported and system stands still. /linuxrc: /usr/bin/[:no such fi

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Weird symlinks broken

2004-12-03 Thread Jim Wharton
One time on Fri, Dec 03, 2004 at 02:34:32PM -0500 this person named Jim McQuillan wrote: > That looks like the correct directory to be mounting. > > WHat's in the directory? > > Jim. > > under /opt/ltsp/i386: bin dev etc home include lib man mnt oldroot proc root sbin share tmp

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2004-12-03 Thread Jim Wharton
This too: - Forwarded message from Jim Wharton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - Date: Fri, 3 Dec 2004 13:31:49 -0500 From: Jim Wharton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Jim McQuillan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Weird symlinks broken In-Reply-To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> X-Operating-System: Fed

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2004-12-03 Thread Jim Wharton
- Forwarded message from Jim Wharton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - Date: Fri, 3 Dec 2004 13:10:57 -0500 From: Jim Wharton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Jim McQuillan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Weird symlinks broken In-Reply-To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> X-Operating-System: Fedora/Linux Us

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Weird symlinks broken

2004-12-03 Thread Jim McQuillan
Jim, This is completely normal. When the workstation boots up, it creates a ramdisk and mounts it on /tmp, and then creates the targets of those symlinks. So, from the workstations point of view, they are not broken symlinks. As for your problem with pivot root, I don't think this is causing yo

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Weird symlinks broken

2004-12-03 Thread Jim McQuillan
Jim, Sounds to me like you aren't mounting the right directory. what is root-path set to, in dhcpd.conf ? Jim McQuillan [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Fri, 3 Dec 2004, Jim Wharton wrote: > One time on Fri, Dec 03, 2004 at 11:32:11AM -0500 this person named Jim > McQuillan wrote: > > Jim, > > > > This

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Weird symlinks broken

2004-12-03 Thread Jim Wharton
One time on Fri, Dec 03, 2004 at 11:32:11AM -0500 this person named Jim McQuillan wrote: > Jim, > > This is completely normal. > > When the workstation boots up, it creates a ramdisk and mounts it on > /tmp, and then creates the targets of those symlinks. So, from the > workstations point of vi

[Ltsp-discuss] Weird symlinks broken

2004-12-03 Thread Jim Wharton
I am having a strange problem with the ltsp-ltsptree-1.7-0-i386.tgz package. It seems that it creates a chroot directory structure with a bunch of broken symlinks. This prevents ltsp clients from booting correctly as they cannot pivot root. (the mtab file doesn't really exist.) If I do an ls comman

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Problem with syslogd

2004-12-03 Thread Thomas Reifferscheid
Ah ps auxw |grep syslog shows, your syslogd is not running with -r so netstat does not show any output. No ideas about your portmapper who should'nt be involved. On Fri, 3 Dec 2004, Ullas T wrote: > > Hi > > Here are the result > > > > ls -al /etc/hosts.allow > > > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 9699

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Problem with syslogd

2004-12-03 Thread Thomas Reifferscheid
Please paste the result of the following commands on your _server_: ls -al /etc/hosts.allow ps auxw |grep syslog netstat -anp |grep 514 On Fri, 3 Dec 2004, Ullas T wrote: > Hello, > > Its me again, doing an LTSP 4.1 installation on fedora core 3. > > I have a problem at client side bootup

[Ltsp-discuss] Problem with syslogd

2004-12-03 Thread Ullas T
Hello, Its me again, doing an LTSP 4.1 installation on fedora core 3. I have a problem at client side bootup which reads as follows -- syslogd: cannot write to remote file handle on 192.168.0.1:514

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] a new client doesn't work

2004-12-03 Thread agenteo
John P. New wrote: Enrico, Did you make sure to restart dhcpd? I just went through this after I added a new client to my home network after a long interval of not setting up new clients, so I was a bit rusty. Client couldn't get an address from dhcp because dhcpd knew nothing about the new MAC addr

[Ltsp-discuss] lbe build success

2004-12-03 Thread Thomas Constans
i have finally been able to build lbe. plateform is debian testing ( stock 2.4 kernel source ) on uml. here is the summary: first prepare some disk space ( 5 go is a minimum ) then prepare some coffee ( build takes some time ) the problems i stumbled on: "multiple definition" error on some pack