Help--update killed everything

Todd O'Bryan toddobryan at gmail.com
Wed Dec 17 13:46:35 GMT 2008


OK. I tried getting rid of the lts.conf file so that it would use all the
defaults. Same problem.
I tried with the lts.conf file that worked with 8.04. Same problem.

I reverted to the old 8.04 ltsp image and, as long as I get rid of the
lts.conf file that was working yesterday, it works. That is, students boot
from an 8.04 image and then run from the server, which is running 8.10.
Obviously, this is not an ideal solution--I can imagine there being
incompatibilities between the libraries installed, but it's working for
right now.

I've done ltsp-update-sshkeys, I've done ltsp-update-image. Anything else I
can try?


On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 8:16 AM, Todd O'Bryan <toddobryan at gmail.com> wrote:

> Scratch that. I had ssh'ed to the wrong server. Which could explain why
> none of the changes I made did anything. :-/
>
>
> On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 8:04 AM, Todd O'Bryan <toddobryan at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> Another piece of information. For some reason the update from 8.04 to 8.10
>> just deleted--completely--my lts.conf file in /var/lib/tftpboot/ltsp/i386.
>> In fact, the tftpboot directory and everything below it got wiped out from
>> /var/lib. I guess I'd call that a bug in the upgrade process.
>>
>>
>> On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 7:33 AM, Todd O'Bryan <toddobryan at gmail.com>wrote:
>>
>>> Sorry for the cross-post, but students are arriving in 15 mins and I'm
>>> desperate.
>>>
>>> I updated my two Ubuntu 8.04 servers with LTSP to 8.10 last night. Once
>>> they finished, I copied over my old LTSP images to /opt/ltsp-8.04 and ran
>>> ltsp-build-client from scratch to create a new image.
>>>
>>> Now, when I boot the clients, something very strange happens.
>>>
>>> I use Ctrl+Alt+F1 to follow the boot progress in the terminal. After
>>> displaying the "Loading hardward drivers" (which takes a while) message, the
>>> background flashes green. It gets to the "Creating authfile...(something)"
>>> message and then the monitor goes black. Not only that, whatever signal the
>>> client is sending to the monitor is so offensive that at this point, not
>>> even the monitor menu button on the front works.
>>>
>>> The clients are NTAVO 6020P's and the monitors are HP 1706's.
>>>
>>> Any ideas what could be going on?
>>>
>>> Todd
>>>
>>
>>
>
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