On Fri, 8 Nov 2002, Gerson Caicedo wrote:
> I have a couple of issues that have been giving me grief for the last
> couple of days.
> what would cause broken symbolic links in the /opt/ltsp/i386/etc folder
> and how do you fix them if you have them.
> My install shows:
> Hosts
> Initrunlv
> Iotcl.save
> Resolv.conf
> Syslog.conf
> XF86.config
> As broken links. It also shows links mnt and var in the /opt/ltsp/i386
> folder as being broken.
These are NOT broken. At least not from the workstation's perspective.
When the workstation boots up, it creates a ramdisk and mounts it
on /tmp, then it creates all of the targets of those links.
If you want to see the links get resolved, try setting RUNLEVEL = 3,
boot the workstation, then from the workstation, you can look
around at those links, and you'll see they are now resolved.
If you go back to the server, you'll still see links going nowhere,
but that is ok. It is the workstation that needs the links.
> When I try to log the thin client on to the server it makes it all the
> way to the gray screen with the X in the middle. On the LTSPv3.0
> documentation under chapter1, THEORY OF OPERATION, the documentation
> says under item 33. in the last sentence: There is a symbolic link
> called /etc/syslog.conf that points to the /tmp/syslog.conf file. If
> this and other links that are involve in starting the display manager
> are in some way damaged then, (correct me if I am wrong) would this be
> causing my problem. By the way all the equipment that I am using is
NO, see the answer above, plus, there aren't any display manager related
links.
> brand new, I have downloaded all the documentation fro the LTSP.ORG
> website and have tried to follow it to the letter but I seem to be
> getting nowhere. I have installed RH8.0 and LTSP 3 four times, I have
> downloaded and installed tgz and rpm. HELP PLEASE. Thanks
You have a typical display manager misconfiguration problem.
First, you need to determine which display manager you are using.
Either xdm, gdm or kdm.
Try: ps -elf | grep dm
and see which is running.
Then, try this:
netstat -anp | grep ":177 "
to see if anything is listening on port 177 (xdmcp). If not,
then your display manager isn't configured to listen to remote
requests.
You'll need to configure the dm to listen. If you are using
gdm, edit your /etc/X11/gdm/gdm.conf file, and find the section
that starts with '[xdmcp]'. The line below that should
say 'enabled=true' or 'enabled=yes'. If it doesn't say that,
then you need to fix it so it does.
if you are using kdm, then you need to edit /etc/kde/kdm/kdmrc
and look for a similar section with a similar answer.
If you are using xdm, then you need to edit /etc/X11/xdm/xdm-config
and find the line that says 'DisplayManager.requestPort: 0'
and make sure the line is commented out.
Once you change one of the above config files, you'll need to
restart the display manager.
For you, I recommend just rebooting the server, it's the easiest
way.
If, on the other hand, you find that there isn't a display manager
running, then you need to check your server's current runlevel.
Do this by typing:
runlevel
It should return something like:
N 5
The 2nd field indicates the current runlevel.
If yours says '3', then you need to edit your /etc/inittab file
and change the 'initdefault' line to 5 and reboot.
That should help.
Jim McQuillan
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