> When I re-booted, I checked on my terminal. Nothing there, unsurprisingly. I > gave it a bit of time, and KDM re-appeared a few minutes later. Upon logging > in, I found everything working perfectly, including sound.
Unless I misunderstand what you're saying, it's really quite simple: X is the "shell" in inittab, i.e., init will continually respawn X with the -query option, so even if the server dies, init will respawn it and X will attempt to reconnect via XDMCP. My only Q is why it took a few minutes. Maybe retry timeouts? > So, I'm curious... How is it possible that the terminal is still working? > How can that be? Didn't it mount the /opt/ltsp/i386 directory as / by way of > NFS? Didn't I break that share by rebooting the server? Well, if the share is somewhere in the server's boot scripts, it's re-exported. Further, the terminals run NFS with hard locking (is that the right term?), where if there's a read/write failure with the client, the client will keep trying without tossing exceptions or errors to the application. This has the side-effect that if you lose NFS, the machine locks hard on any file access. Thus if X or init were trying to read something from NFS and NFS went down, it simply locked and kept trying until NFS was back again, and went on as if nothing had happened (because from the app's point of view, nothing did. Only the kernel knows about the delay). Remember that X and init and the kernel (and other things) are still in the client's ram, so its not a chicken-and-egg problem. The whole thing is still kinda neat, though. Computers are so much more patient than us. -- Francis Avila ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by: Dice - The leading online job board for high-tech professionals. Search and apply for tech jobs today! http://seeker.dice.com/seeker.epl?rel_code=31 _____________________________________________________________________ Ltsp-discuss mailing list. To un-subscribe, or change prefs, goto: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ltsp-discuss For additional LTSP help, try #ltsp channel on irc.openprojects.net ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by: Dice - The leading online job board for high-tech professionals. Search and apply for tech jobs today! http://seeker.dice.com/seeker.epl?rel_code=31 _____________________________________________________________________ Ltsp-discuss mailing list. To un-subscribe, or change prefs, goto: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ltsp-discuss For additional LTSP help, try #ltsp channel on irc.openprojects.net
