CUPS won't start on fat client

[Todd O'Bryan]

Well, I figured it out. Even though it's a fat client, it seems the
way to make it work was to follow this how-to:

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/UbuntuLTSP/LocalAppsLucidPrinting

The fat client is connecting as a client to the server and printing
from there, rather than printing on its own, but at least it can
print.

Todd

On Thu, Mar 10, 2011 at 6:46 PM, Todd O'Bryan <toddobryan at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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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