[Ltsp-discuss] suddenly BusyBox on clients

[Bob Wooden]

My version of a conclusion.

When a user installs VMware onto Ubuntu (v8.04 in my case,) the install 
instructions I followed (at howtoforge.com) indicates that xinetd needs 
to be installed prior to installing the VMware packages.  When xinetd 
installs, it removes openbsd-inetd (what Debian/Ubuntu uses as it's 
default inetd service.)

That will "break" LTSP thin-clients, resulting in the BusyBox prompt.

Upon re-installing openbsd-inetd, it's dependency is to remove xinetd. 
That action repaired my LTSP install and our clients can once again boot 
properly.

What is interesting is that after re-installing openbsd-inetd (the 
Debian/Ubuntu default inetd service,) VMware still runs.  I (was 
guessing) that without xinetd, VMware would not run. But, after server 
reboot, no problems appear as yet and LTSP and VMware still run.

Thanks to jam and thanks to Oliver Grawert, their posts greatly helped 
me find my answer.

So, now I wait to see if there are other unforeseen consequences of my 
actions.  But, for now it works and I am pleased.

jam wrote:
> On Friday 18 July 2008 03:02:29 ltsp-discuss-request at lists.sourceforge.net 
> wrote:
>   
>>> Use wireshare to watch what you ask for and what you get.
>>>       
>> I guess you mean Wireshark ?
>>     
>
>
> Brain fade. 'e' and 'k' are too far apart for any other excuse. Sorry!
>
> James
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