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

[Jesse McDonnell]

On Wed, 24 May 2006 14:30:43 -0700
Eric Harrison <eharrison at mail.mesd.k12.or.us> wrote:

> Jesse McDonnell 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?
> > 
> > Thanks,
> > 
> > Jesse
> > 
> 
> 
> Doh! A fine example of a brown-bag release :-(
> 
> I did test this before I uploaded it, I have no idea how my terminal
> managed to boot...
> 
> I found the problem, but it takes a while to build new packages. In the
> meantime, you can revert to the old package. The 32bit repository has
> been back-rev'd, the 64bit repository should be done in 10 minutes or so...
> 
> 	rpm -e --nodeps ltsp_i386
> 	yum clean all
> 	yum install ltsp_i386


That did it, I'm back in business. Thanks, Eric! As has been said here many many times, you couldn't pay for support this good.

Jesse