Re: Problems with pr06 of Sarge-based debian-edu
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Finn-Arne Johansen wrote: Finn-Arne Johansen wrote: A lot of time has passed since last prerelease, and some bug changes have been done The biggest change is that we use new ltsp-packages, which is built by debian packages. Since this is more or less the same tools that is used with lessdisks, lessdisks is no longer on the CD. This is an advisory to not use this preRelease for production, and a call for help. While we have tested the new LTSP a lot on different thin clients, there was one important test that we had not done yet. And that one was big-scale testing. What we found out yesterday, is that there is some kind of locking problem, that we dont see when we test with one client at the time, but that hits us hard when using more than one client. What happens is when you boot more than 1 client at once, all but 1 clients are experiencing NFS-timouts I found what package is causing this, and maybe then someone can tell what is wrong with the package. It looks like initrd-netboot-tools from etch has some problems. If I use initrd-netboot-tools from sarge, my little test-network here which consists of an old workstation as server, and 2 thin clients booting PXE, behaves much better. so here is my preliminary advise for those who want to use pr06 and the new ltsp: echo deb http://ftp.debian.org/debian sarge main contrib \ /opt/ltsp/i386/etc/apt/sources.list mount -t proc proc /opt/ltsp/i386/proc chroot /opt/ltsp/i386/ apt-get update chroot /opt/ltsp/i386/ apt-get install \ initrd-netboot-tools=0.5.3cvs.20040906-16 chroot /opt/ltsp/i386/ dpkg-reconfigure kernel-image-2.4.27-2-386 ln -sf /opt/ltsp/i386/boot/vmlinuz /opt/ltsp/boot/initrd.img \ /var/lib/tftpboot/ltsp Please test this, and if you have a larger network to test on, please give feedback at http://bugs.skolelinux.no/show_bug.cgi?id=991 - -- Finn-Arne Johansen [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://bzz.no/ Debian-edu developer and Solution Provider -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFDnr8RAG8SFQYuZkIRAm9CAJ4uVYsXm/DVLO1TJZhkjO43lKt1oQCfbhwf BsZc040M06XkZ8/G95jwoJw= =HuVO -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Problems with pr06 of Sarge-based debian-edu
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, 13 Dec 2005 13:31:13 +0100 Finn-Arne Johansen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I found what package is causing this, and maybe then someone can tell what is wrong with the package. It looks like initrd-netboot-tools from etch has some problems. If I use initrd-netboot-tools from sarge, my little test-network here which consists of an old workstation as server, and 2 thin clients booting PXE, behaves much better. Please file a bugreport against initrd-netboot-tools. I am the maintainer of that package, but discussing the details makes better sense through the BTS than here due to other clever folks subscribing there too. - Jonas - -- * Jonas Smedegaard - idealist og Internet-arkitekt * Tlf.: +45 40843136 Website: http://dr.jones.dk/ - Enden er nær: http://www.shibumi.org/eoti.htm -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFDntJSn7DbMsAkQLgRAtRnAKClCH61C/79bjTVrZFdT7qoWBHtiwCfTsVU 0KVNIfjwRWu8sy4yhfQr1Pc= =q0pw -END PGP SIGNATURE-
Re: Problems with pr06 of Sarge-based debian-edu
tirsdag 13 desember 2005, 14:53, skrev Jonas Smedegaard: Please file a bugreport against initrd-netboot-tools. I am the maintainer of that package, but discussing the details makes better sense through the BTS than here due to other clever folks subscribing there too. I worte this bug-report after reading the «How to report a bug in Debian». I believe Finn-Arne should submit this: To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: Finn-Arne Johansen [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: New LTSP don't accept more than on client Package: initrd-netboot-tools from etch Version: 0.7.0b-2: Finn-Arne Johansen reports (2005-12-13): While we have tested the new LTSP a lot on different thin clients, there was one important test that we had not done yet. And that one was big-scale testing. What we found out yesterday, is that there is some kind of locking problem. What happens is when you boot more than 1 client at once, all but 1 clients are experiencing NFS-timeouts. Also, if you have some clients already booted, and ready to use, log in on one ore more of them, then boot a new clients, you will experience that your clients are locked while the last client is booting. It looks like initrd-netboot-tools from etch has some problems. If I use initrd-netboot-tools from sarge, my little test-network here which consists of an old workstation as server, and 2 thin clients booting PXE, behaves much better. so here is my preliminary advise for those who want to use pr06 and the new ltsp: echo deb http://ftp.debian.org/debian sarge main contrib \ /opt/ltsp/i386/etc/apt/sources.list mount -t proc proc /opt/ltsp/i386/proc chroot /opt/ltsp/i386/ apt-get update chroot /opt/ltsp/i386/ apt-get install \ initrd-netboot-tools=0.5.3cvs.20040906-16 chroot /opt/ltsp/i386/ dpkg-reconfigure kernel-image-2.4.27-2-386 ln -sf /opt/ltsp/i386/boot/vmlinuz /opt/ltsp/boot/initrd.img \ /var/lib/tftpboot/ltsp We were testing Skolelinux pr06 based on Debian sarge with initrd-netboot-tools from etch http://d.skolelinux.no/info/cdbygging/news.html
Re: Problems with pr06 of Sarge-based debian-edu
Knut Yrvin wrote: tirsdag 13 desember 2005, 14:53, skrev Jonas Smedegaard: Please file a bugreport against initrd-netboot-tools. I am the maintainer of that package, but discussing the details makes better sense through the BTS than here due to other clever folks subscribing there too. I worte this bug-report after reading the «How to report a bug in Debian». I believe Finn-Arne should submit this: It's nice that people tell others what to do. And to teach the rest of us how to do things. I'm not even sure who is teaching who. Maybe people could help finding the bug instead ? Or, if bugs.debian.org was responding, you could search either by package name, or by submitters email address to see if something happens. Why do I even bother .. -- Finn-Arne Johansen [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://bzz.no/ Leverandør av support på, drift og videreutvikling av Skolelinux-løsninger -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Problems with pr06 of Sarge-based debian-edu
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, 13 Dec 2005 16:07:55 +0100 Finn-Arne Johansen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It's nice that people tell others what to do. And to teach the rest of us how to do things. Sorry - I did not mean to be rude. The reason I suggest you file the bugreport is that it seemed to me that you are hit by the bug, so valuable in resolving the bug. By no means I wanted to push extra workload your way. This is all voluntary[1]. - Jonas [1] Debian is _not_ a do-o-cracy ;-) - -- * Jonas Smedegaard - idealist og Internet-arkitekt * Tlf.: +45 40843136 Website: http://dr.jones.dk/ - Enden er nær: http://www.shibumi.org/eoti.htm -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFDnucrn7DbMsAkQLgRAuTUAKCBwix1Fa0U/U+v62xqLuDd/+EWswCePv2o Lpa2NBjXoGM5AFUUuepR21s= =AOPS -END PGP SIGNATURE-
