Sorry for the double-post. My webmail interface said "session timeout" and forgot to tell me that it already sent the message...
On Sat, 24 Aug 2013 14:02:17 +0200 Arnold Krille <arn...@arnoldarts.de> wrote: > Hi all, > > I spent most of yesterdays working hours automating the setup of a > TCE-nfs+tftp server. We use Chef (www.opscode.com) for that. And I > will most likely publish the cookbook/recipe soon. The main reason I > started this is that we want to automate more and more of the setup. > And thus ease setting up our customers systems. > > Two problems I encountered: > > 1) The x2gothinclient_create skript assumes interactive usage and has > no option of running non-interactive. I adopted this by removing the > single "read" (so it doesn't anymore ask for confirmation and by > trying to set the locale without running "dpkg-reconfigure locales". > So that part worked. > > 2) I got the client-machines (tested with a virtual machine and > checked with an atom-based netbook) to boot of the pxe+tftp+nfs as > wanted and am presented with x2goclient. But on the way there, the > mouse and keyboard are lost and motivation on friday just before the > weekend got a little low-point. Any tips where to look at what > happened? Keyboard and mouse seem to be gone for good, I could > neither move the pointer nor enter anything in x2goclient. Also I > couldn't do Ctrl+Alt+F1 to switch to a text-console. > > I also copied the x2gothinclient_shell-skript to create an > x2gothinclient_execute which takes arguments and just executes these > inside the tce-chroot instead of running an interactive bash. I don't > know whether that is something I should prepare a patch for x2go for? > It sure is very great for example for installing the kernel inside > the chroot from the chef-recipe. And probably for other stuff I > didn't yet need. > > Have a nice weekend, > > Arnold > _______________________________________________ > X2Go-Dev mailing list > X2Go-Dev@lists.berlios.de > https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/x2go-dev
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