lts.conf settings being ignored

[Joseph Bishay]

Hello,

I wasn't at the school so I had someone run the commands and email me
back the results.  I've ssh'd in to the server now and I'll do what I
can from here for the first part -- I don't think there's a way to do
the thin client part remotely is there?  I can ping the thin client
from the server of course, but I can't ssh to its IP address.

I've put my results in-line also:

On Tue, Feb 25, 2014 at 1:44 AM, Alkis Georgopoulos <alkisg at gmail.com> wrote:
>> So I found that getltscfg was not installed on the server so I had to
>> install.  It's part of the ltsp-client-core
> You shouldn't have installed ltsp-client-core on the server. Remove it.

OK I've removed it.

>> $ md5sum /etc/lts.conf
>> dbd0e12514a3cd400b042f31b6825c88  /var/lib/tftpboot/ltsp/amd64/lts.conf
> Which file did you check, /etc/lts.conf as your command above says,
> or /var/lib/tftpboot/ltsp/amd64/lts.conf as the reply above says?

Not sure so I'm re-running it:

> Get the lts.conf md5sum:
> $ md5sum /var/lib/tftpboot/ltsp/i386/lts.conf

@ltsp:~$ md5sum /var/lib/tftpboot/ltsp/i386/lts.conf
md5sum: /var/lib/tftpboot/ltsp/i386/lts.conf: No such file or directory

That was just to confirm there's no i386 folder.  Trying now with amd64:

@ltsp:~$ md5sum /var/lib/tftpboot/ltsp/amd64/lts.conf
dbd0e12514a3cd400b042f31b6825c88  /var/lib/tftpboot/ltsp/amd64/lts.conf

>> root at ltsp191:~# getltscfg -a
>> #SOUND="true"
>> SCREEN_01="shell"
>> export SOUND
>> export SCREEN_01
> There's no # in front of the SOUND="true" line, is there?

I will confirm this command on the thin client as soon as possible.

On the server my current lts.conf file looks like this:
@ltsp:~$ cat /var/lib/tftpboot/ltsp/amd64/lts.conf
[default]
SOUND=true
SCREEN_01=shell
#[00:22:64:BB:60:A8]
#SCREEN_01=shell

> Also, don't use SCREEN_01=shell because vt1 is reserved for the boot
> messages and the getty service.
> Use SCREEN_02=shell instead.

Would setting SCREEN_02=shell cause the thin client to boot to a shell
without switching consoles? The whole purpose I set that variable was
to have something obvious happen to show me that the thin client is
responding to lts.conf (I hope that makes sense!)

>> With regards to tftp:
>> $ tftp -V
>> tftp-hpa 5.2, without readline
> That's the tftp client, but which server?
> dpkg -l tftpd-hpa

@ltsp:~$ sudo dpkg -l tftpd-hpa
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
| Status=Not/Inst/Conf-files/Unpacked/halF-conf/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig-pend
|/ Err?=(none)/Reinst-required (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
||/ Name                                                  Version
                                         Description
+++-=====================================================-=================
ii  tftpd-hpa                                             5.2-1ubuntu1
                                         HPA's tftp server

> If the above issues ^ are just copy/paste typos etc, then I don't know
> what's wrong with your setup, so another visit to the IRC channel would be
> required... :)

I understand.  I'll get the last piece of information and post it
here. Is there a recommended time to go on IRC?

Thank you for all your help so far!
Joseph