creating fat 'thin' clients with ltsp

[Jim Kronebusch]

On Wed, 13 Feb 2008 00:42:29 +0100, David Van Assche wrote
> Hi there,
>    I've recently documented the steps needed to make alternative fat chroots
> with local apps and local cpu/memory usage. So called ltsp diskless
> workstations, or low fat clients. The wiki is here, and though is not
> complete, Ive tested it and it works (I am running it on 20 computers in my
> computer lab that require multimedia apps, aswell as flash, java, video,
> audio, etc. Take a look here and feel free to add to it or ask me questions:
> 
> https://help.ubuntu.com/community/UbuntuLTSP/LTSPFatClients

Well, I started to get things going, I created the chroot with ltsp-build-client, then
got to the point to expand my base chroot with apt-get install edubuntu-desktop.  Things
got to the point of configuring acpid then broke hard (errors below).  And even with -f
options and running dpkg --configure -a I can't get it to move on.

I am wondering if when you have done this you stepped in slower, maybe starting with the
minimal install, then moving towards edubuntu-desktop?  I might wipe the directory and
try it that way.  Or maybe this is a difference with 7.04.

Errors:
Setting up acpid (1.0.4-5ubuntu6) ...
 * Starting ACPI services...                                                   
invoke-rc.d: initscript acpid, action "start" failed.
dpkg: error processing acpid (--configure):
 subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1
Errors were encountered while processing:
 acpid
root at ltsp:/# apt-get install -f acpid
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
acpid is already the newest version.
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
6 not fully installed or removed.
Need to get 0B of archives.
After unpacking 0B of additional disk space will be used.
Setting up acpid (1.0.4-5ubuntu6) ...
 * Starting ACPI services...                                                   
invoke-rc.d: initscript acpid, action "start" failed.
dpkg: error processing acpid (--configure):
 subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of acpi-support:
 acpi-support depends on acpid (>= 1.0.4-1ubuntu4); however:
  Package acpid is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing acpi-support (--configure):
 dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of powermanagement-interface:
 powermanagement-interface depends on acpi-support (>= 0.17); however:
  Package acpi-support is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing powermanagement-interface (--configure):
 dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of gnome-power-manager:
 gnome-power-manager depends on powermanagement-interface; however:
  Package powermanagement-interface is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing gnome-power-manager (--configure):
 dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of gnome-session:
 gnome-session depends on gnome-power-manager; however:
  Package gnome-power-manager is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing gnome-session (--configure):
 dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of edubuntu-desktop:
 edubuntu-desktop depends on acpi-support; however:
  Package acpi-support is not configured yet.
 edubuntu-desktop depends on acpid; however:
  Package acpid is not configured yet.
 edubuntu-desktop depends on gnome-power-manager; however:
  Package gnome-power-manager is not configured yet.
 edubuntu-desktop depends on gnome-session; however:
  Package gnome-session is not configured yet.
 edubuntu-desktop depends on powermanagement-interface; however:
  Package powermanagement-interface is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing edubuntu-desktop (--configure):
 dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
Errors were encountered while processing:
 acpid
 acpi-support
 powermanagement-interface
 gnome-power-manager
 gnome-session
 edubuntu-desktop
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
root at ltsp:/# 


Thanks,
Jim

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