[K12OSN] new LTSP 4.2 test packages with the VNC module built in

[Jesse McDonnell]

On Wed, 24 May 2006 17:18:36 -0400
Jesse McDonnell <jessemcdonnell at comcast.net> wrote:

> On Tue, 23 May 2006 22:09:29 -0700 (PDT)
> Eric Harrison <eharrison at mail.mesd.k12.or.us> wrote:
> 
> > 
> > The good news:
> > 
> > I finally figured out a way to get the vnc X11 extension module to build
> > consistently inside the LTSP build environment. I sent Jim the patch,
> > hopefully the LTSP guys will find it useful as well.
> > 
> > 
> > I added the patched ltsp_i386 packages to the 5.0 beta repositories,
> > you should be able to run "yum update" in about 20 minutes or so to
> > install the new package.
> > 
> 
> Saw this while drinking my first cup of coffee this morning and thought, let me try it. Did a yum *upgrade* instead of update and now my clients won't boot. Shouldn't be so eager before I wake up properly.
> 
> The client fails at line 74 of /opt/ltsp/i386/etc/rc.sysinit with "modprobe - command not found" then fails to connect to the swap server, and finally with the message "stat of /dev/tty1 failed: no such file or directory" and "stat of /dev/tty2 failed: no such etc"
> 
> If I turn off NBD swap it still fails with the "stat of /dev/tty1 failed" message.
> 
> Any pointers on how to fix this?
> 
An addendum to my own posting: now that I'm catching more of the boot messages with nbd swap off I see it's failing even earlier with starting udev at line 30 of rc.sysinit: gives error message "/sbin/udev: no such file or directory"

Looks like I've hosed the root file system on the client. I tried running the ltsp-initialize script and restarting the server but no joy. 

Jesse