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

[Eric Harrison]

Joe Guenther wrote:
> Eric,
> 
> fine fine work!! The yum update worked perfectly. The Macromedia Flash install 
> worked perfectly. The PC clients boot perfectly, the iMac clients boot 
> perfectly. Uum, this is getting very close to a production ready beta, from the 
> things that I have tried and tested. Well done.
> 
> One little itty bitty fly in the ointment .... when one uses a different IP 
> address for the server thatn192.168.0.254 (I use a 10.x.100.1) the LTSP 
> initialize script passes the that IP address on to the proper config files - 
> etc/dhcpd-k12ltsp.conf, etc/exports, etc/hosts, opt/ltsp/etc/lts.conf but it 
> does NOT pass that address on to the /opt/ltsp/ppc/etc/lts.conf.  The X session 
> on an iMac client will not work until you go and change the ip address in that 
> file.  I know about it and make the change during my initial install, but there 
> may be users that use PC and then try a PPC client, only to not have it work. Of 
> course this is all based on the change of the server IP address to use something 
> other than the standard 192.168.0.254

Yes indeed, that needs to be fixed. I should have it done tomorrow.

Thanks for catching it ;-)

> Just a little tip - but otherwise an incredible piece of work on the new betas. 
> I have followed the beta process more closely this time as I was in the middle 
> of a demo setup and wanted to demonstrate the new local mounting of USB / 
> CD-rom.  The first couple of betas were a bit rough, but this is looking finely 
> polished already.  Hat's off to you Eric!
> 
> Joe Guenther

I now just need to figure out this stinking problem with the keyboard
preferences crashing terminals!

-Eric

> 
> Eric Harrison wrote:
>> The package rebuild has completed and has been tested.
>>
>> The server is pretty busy at the moment, the repositories may take
>> longer than usual to rebuild. The fixed package should appear by 5:00pm PDT.
>>
>> -Eric
>>
>>
>> Eric Harrison 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
>>>
>>>
>>> -Eric
>>>
>>>     
>>