can't access tty; job control turned off

[Matt Oquist]

For whatever reason, we got this error when booting thin clients using
our freshly-installed Edubuntu (edgy) server yesterday.

Thankfully, I could ALT+F1 to tty1 and see that it was having trouble
mounting /opt/ltsp/i386 on the server. (I believe the error was
"permission denied".)

As a first guess, I restarted NFS on the server:
$ sudo /etc/init.d/nfs-kernel-server restart

Then I rebooted the thin client and everything was fine.

I now wish that I had done some more troubleshooting first, to know
WHY the NFS server was denying permission...but I didn't.

--matt

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