<div dir="ltr"><div><div>Well, may be the laziness in me worked to my advantage :-) </div>I am still to fix my second server and will try this approach! </div>Thanks for the tip William! </div><div class="gmail_extra"> <div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, May 16, 2013 at 12:52 PM, William Fragakis <<a href="mailto:william@fragakis.com" target="_blank">william@fragakis.com</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"> I don't know if this will shed any light for those who've been suffering similar woes. short version: on ltsp server restart, ltsp-dhcpd failed to start and ltspbr0 was dead. thin clients couldn't boot. update erased ifcfg-ltspbr0 but copying ifcfg-ltspbr0, bringing up ltspbr0 and starting ltsp-dhcpd solved everything. long version: We had a server restart this morning. Someone unfortunately punched the reset button on the ltsp server instead of the dead windows box. Server came back online but thin clients couldn't get ip address to begin booting. Panic developed as this was in the middle of a workday. service ltsp-dhcpd status showed dhcp was dead and restarting it failed with system log saying something about undeclared subnets, etc. ifconfig didn't show anything for ltspbr0 Listed the files in /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts that started with ifcfg-l and got ifcfg-lo ifcfg-ltspbr0~ and ifcfg-ltspbr0.rpmnew But no ifcfg-ltspbr0 Copied ifcfg-ltspbr0.rpmnew to ifcfg-ltspbr0 , did an ifup on ifcfg-ltspbr0 and then ltsp-dhcpd restarted without any problems. thin clients booted and my heart was no longer pounding. Moral of the story, an update incorrectly killed existing ltspbr0 config file. Hope this helps. I didn't see this mentioned elsewhere so sorry if it duplicates anything. Not sure which update killed it or to whom I should submit bug report. Suggestions appreciated. thanks, William _______________________________________________ K12OSN mailing list <a href="mailto:K12OSN@redhat.com">K12OSN@redhat.com</a> <a href="https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/k12osn" target="_blank">https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/k12osn</a> For more info see <<a href="http://www.k12os.org" target="_blank">http://www.k12os.org</a>> </blockquote></div> </div>