[K12OSN] terminals now fail to boot - Update

[James P. Kinney III]

At this point, try turning off iptables 

service iptables stop

then try rebooting a terminal.

On Wed, 2006-08-30 at 15:16 -0400, Alexander Hicks wrote:
> Correction – After I reset passwords, I can login as any user on the
> server (not terminal, they’re dead a that point)…
> 
> Sorry. ~ Alex
> 
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> Subject: RE: [K12OSN] terminals now fail to boot - Update
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> Ok, so I’ve checked to ensure that TFTP and XINETD are running (they
> are). I’ve also checked to see that the dhcp.conf file points to files
> that exist.  I couldn’t open those files to peek at them, should I be
> able to?  I Downloaded and installed all of the updates for 4.4 and
> rebooted server, but the terminals still fail to boot. 
> 
> The thing that kills me is that all of the terminals worked before I
> webmin’d in the users and then used this command “rsync –essh –av .
> 192.168.0.254:/home” to move the home folders over.  I don’t really
> know how it works, but all of the folders seem to have come over fine
> and all of my users are there.  The passwords for the users are messed
> up, though. If I reset the passwords, I can login as any user on the
> SERVER (not terminal) and the student material appears in their home
> folder.
> 
> Would Importing users or the rsync command somehow affect the
> permissions on other files (like vmlinuz.ltsp)?
> 
> I’m willing to reload 4.4.1 or 5 (which I tried earlier, but ran into
> the same problem) and put all of the student work in a public folder
> for them to import themselves, if the problem exists with my use of
> the rsync, but rebuilding the 350 users is a pain (although I looks
> like I have to reset their passwords anyway – is there a cool command
> for that?) 
> 
> Huge thanks for all of the suggestions so far.
> ~Alex
> 
> Ps: I’ll add a sightseeing trip down the Piscataqua River and out
> around the Isles of Shoals to the Beer and Golf award. (Travel to NH
> not included – sorry)
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> Alexander Hicks
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