Aw: Re: Edubuntu 12.04 LTSP - Shutdown and wake on LAN problems with Zotac ZBox

Matt Johnson johnsonmlw at yahoo.com
Wed Jan 30 11:58:05 UTC 2013




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>To: Matt Johnson <johnsonmlw at yahoo.com> 
>Cc: "edubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com" <edubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com> 
>Sent: Wednesday, 30 January 2013, 10:57
>Subject: Aw: Re: Edubuntu 12.04 LTSP - Shutdown and wake on LAN problems with Zotac ZBox
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>Hi Matt,
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>thank you very much for your reply.
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>We are using the /etc/init/ltsp-shutdown.conf from an older Edubuntu version and this file tells our LTSP Clients to use "poweroff -fp", so 
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>the ZBox Nano shuts down fine here. (This file was removed in Edubuntu 12.04, but it fixes the shutdown problem.)
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>But using the "poweroff -fp" way to shutdown the clients seems to create a new problem: -> WOL don't work.
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>So either i must get the ZBoxes to shutdown the "normal way" (using shutdown -h now instead of poweroff -fp) or i must find a solution that 
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>the network interface keeps online when using the "poweroff -fp" method.
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>Ah, yes. I understand. I had the shutdown problem for quite some time and I never came across ltsp-shutdown.conf from earlier versions. That may have been an easier fix for me perhaps. Don't know.

Sorry. I've created a bit of a red herring here. I can't help you but I hope someone else can.

Oh by the way... I take it you've explored the acpi boot options? I tried all this for ages, which worked for some people (but not for our workstations).

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Matt
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