NFS problems.

[Matt Zimmerman]

On Thu, Aug 25, 2005 at 08:44:43PM +0100, Daniel Carrera wrote:
> First of all, thank you for all the help so far. I'm glad that Matt's 
> suggestion worked.
> 
> Now, this is where I am: The thin client starts booting, it gets an IP 
> from the server, and starts showing what looks like a Linux boot up 
> process until it reaches the following error:
> 
> <quote>
> nfs: server 192.168.0.1 not responding, timed out
> nfs: server 192.168.0.1 not responding, timed out
> mount: I/O error
> short read: 0 < 28
> Begin: Running /scripts/nfs-bottom ...
> Done.
> Done.
> Begin: Running /scripts/init-bottom ...
> Done.
> run-init: current directory on the same filesystem as the root: error 0
> Kernel panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill init!
> </quote>

This is http://bugzilla.ubuntu.com/show_bug.cgi?id=12942

As a workaround, please try this:

- Edit /opt/ltsp/i386/usr/share/initramfs-tools/scripts/nfs
- Change the line "sleep 3" to "sleep 5"
- sudo chroot /opt/ltsp/i386 dpkg-reconfigure linux-image-2.6.12-7-386
- sudo ltsp-update-kernels

and then boot the thin client.

-- 
 - mdz