CUPS won't start on fat client

[Todd O'Bryan]

I was able to get root access by doing

$ sudo chroot /opt/ltsp/amd64 passwd -u root
$ sudo chroot /opt/ltsp/amd64 passwd

and setting the password. As I guessed, cups isn't starting. In fact,
when I look in the rc.d directories, all mentions of cups are K50cups
files, meaning that cups is getting killed, rather than started.

Once I start cups manually, using the root account on the client, then
login in as a normal user, everything works fine. There's something
funky about trying to install cups in a chroot. Because the
installation script tries to run the cups server as part of
installing, and fails because it's in a chroot, the cups daemon
doesn't get set up to start on boot.

Any ideas?
Todd

On Fri, Mar 4, 2011 at 6:48 PM, David Groos <djgroos at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hey Todd, not sure if this will help, but if you go to the
> /var/lib/tftpboot/ltsp/your.fat.image/lts.conf file and type:
>
> SCREEN_02=shell
>
> SCREEN_07=ldm
>
> (without the bullets, and maybe with a restart of your client).  Then, when
> you reboot and are sitting at a client you hit F2 and you will be brought
> into maybe it's called, "console" but I think of it as "terminal" but on the
> local client, not on the server.  Of course you can do any change on the
> client, remove this and that or whatever, and upon reboot you get a fresh
> system without your modifications.  Anyway, hope this works on fat clients,
> not just thin clients--I'm still trying to figure out fat clients.  Anyone?
> David
> On Mar 4, 2011, at 12:16 PM, Todd O'Bryan wrote:
>
> I can't get CUPS to start on a fat client. This is more complicated,
> because I can't sudo to check anything, because once the user logs in
> on the fat client, it doesn't use the server's user database anymore.
>
> So, two questions:
>
> 1. Does anyone know if CUPS not starting on an AMD64 LTSP fat client
> running 10.04 is a known problem with a known solution. (This is
> regular Ubuntu LTSP, not Edubuntu, but the LTSP part makes this list a
> lot more useful, I think.)
>
> 2. How do I get sudo access on the client?
>
> Thanks muchly,
> Todd
>
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