[K12OSN] Re: Help--update killed everything

Todd O'Bryan toddobryan at gmail.com
Wed Dec 17 17:46:17 UTC 2008


OK. I just noticed something strange. When I try to update the chroot area,
if I leave it with the default repos enabled, I get no updates. If I add

deb http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu intrepid-updates main restricted

to get backports, it wants to install lilo and mbr, but I'm pretty sure I
don't want those in a thin-client image. Is there something weird going on?
Do I really want lilo and mbr? Should I remove them manually after they're
installed?

This is just silly...

Todd

On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 8:46 AM, Todd O'Bryan <toddobryan at gmail.com> wrote:

> OK. I tried getting rid of the lts.conf file so that it would use all the
> defaults. Same problem.
> I tried with the lts.conf file that worked with 8.04. Same problem.
>
> I reverted to the old 8.04 ltsp image and, as long as I get rid of the
> lts.conf file that was working yesterday, it works. That is, students boot
> from an 8.04 image and then run from the server, which is running 8.10.
> Obviously, this is not an ideal solution--I can imagine there being
> incompatibilities between the libraries installed, but it's working for
> right now.
>
> I've done ltsp-update-sshkeys, I've done ltsp-update-image. Anything else I
> can try?
>
>
>
> On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 8:16 AM, Todd O'Bryan <toddobryan at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> Scratch that. I had ssh'ed to the wrong server. Which could explain why
>> none of the changes I made did anything. :-/
>>
>>
>> On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 8:04 AM, Todd O'Bryan <toddobryan at gmail.com>wrote:
>>
>>> Another piece of information. For some reason the update from 8.04 to
>>> 8.10 just deleted--completely--my lts.conf file in
>>> /var/lib/tftpboot/ltsp/i386. In fact, the tftpboot directory and everything
>>> below it got wiped out from /var/lib. I guess I'd call that a bug in the
>>> upgrade process.
>>>
>>>
>>> On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 7:33 AM, Todd O'Bryan <toddobryan at gmail.com>wrote:
>>>
>>>> Sorry for the cross-post, but students are arriving in 15 mins and I'm
>>>> desperate.
>>>>
>>>> I updated my two Ubuntu 8.04 servers with LTSP to 8.10 last night. Once
>>>> they finished, I copied over my old LTSP images to /opt/ltsp-8.04 and ran
>>>> ltsp-build-client from scratch to create a new image.
>>>>
>>>> Now, when I boot the clients, something very strange happens.
>>>>
>>>> I use Ctrl+Alt+F1 to follow the boot progress in the terminal. After
>>>> displaying the "Loading hardward drivers" (which takes a while) message, the
>>>> background flashes green. It gets to the "Creating authfile...(something)"
>>>> message and then the monitor goes black. Not only that, whatever signal the
>>>> client is sending to the monitor is so offensive that at this point, not
>>>> even the monitor menu button on the front works.
>>>>
>>>> The clients are NTAVO 6020P's and the monitors are HP 1706's.
>>>>
>>>> Any ideas what could be going on?
>>>>
>>>> Todd
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>
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