Only One Thin Client Mounts Local Devices (Was: RE: My Negative Gutsy Experience)

Denis Melnikov dmelnik at regent.ru
Thu Nov 22 15:21:20 GMT 2007


Now we have fresh installation of 7.10.

> > 1) Local devices stopped mounting.
> > Rarely a floppy icon appears at some user's desktop.
> > Rarely an USBkey or CD mounts. But this happens without
> > any relationship with username or computer. The fact is
> > that only one user have an access to local devices at
> > a time. Of course, all users are allowed to mount local
> > devices.
> > 
> 
> Have you had a chance, yet, to learn that lts.conf should be in 
> /var/lib/tftpboot/ltsp/i386/ ?
> 
> Also, a newly installed Gutsy server will have this directory
> 
> /opt/ltsp/i386/usr/share/doc/ltsp-client-core/examples/
> 
> that has good lts.conf examples and descriptions.  Mine 
> currently looks 
> like this (note that I specify local devices)
> 
> [default]     <---
>      X_COLOR_DEPTH=16
>      LDM_DIRECTX=True
>      X_MODE_0=1024x768
>      LOCALDEV=True     <---
>      SOUND=True        <---
>      NBD_SWAP=True
>      SYSLOG_HOST=server <---

We have the marked lines in the file.
As before only one (if any) client can mount local devices.
This is one that has a 'floppy0' icon at its desktop.
(Maybe it's the 1st client booted, I will examine tomorrow.)
I tried to debug remaining ones as described in
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DebugLocalDev
All the steps except the last one have succeeded.
The last one put the following error:

X connection to localhost:10.0 broken (explicit kill or
server shutdown).
Error: /tmp/.teacher-ltspfs/tmp is not mounted

The second problem with local devices are cyrillic letters
in filenames. Nevertheless, when a USB stick mounts,
cyrillic letters in filenames appear as question marks.
I've found a solution (dirty hack) and posted it along
with the problem as bug 164508.

Denis


> --scott




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