I have recently installed LTSP 4.1 on a FC2 server and I am trying to set up a PXE laptop as an X Terminal.
I have successfully installed and regularly used LTSP 3 running on the same server (but running RH9 at the time) with the same laptop and the laptop will run FC2 without any problems or special configuration. Everything seems to go fine to start with. My laptop boots, successfully gets its IP address etc, tftps the small PXE binary (d/l from www.rom-o-matic.com), gets the Linux kernel, boots, mounts the nfs root and eventually displays the following line: rc.sysinit completed, switching to multi-session mode and that's it, it gets stuck at this point. There are no error messages on the laptops screen (I have scrolled back through them to check) nor in /var/log/messages on the server. The last entry in /var/log/messages is: Oct 13 20:20:48 petrel init: Entering runlevel: 5 (petrel is the name of the laptop.) Since the key elements (namely dhcp, tftp, nfs) all appear to be working fine, I had thought it might be X, but when I tried changing the runlevel to 3, everything behaved exactly as before. My lts.conf is brief: # /opt/ltsp/i386/etc/lts.conf # [default] RUNLEVEL = 5 SERVER = 192.168.1.4 DNS_SERVER = 192.168.1.1 SEARCH_DOMAIN = olicana.org RAMDISK_SIZE = 2048 #SOUND = Y XSERVER = auto XkbLayout = "gb" The laptop has 1GB of RAM so I haven't bothered with swap. I don't know whether it's relevant, but my setup appears to ignore the RUNLEVEL command. If I set it to 3 I still see Entering runlevel 5 in /var/log/messages. My setup does process the other lines correctly (as far as I can tell). I haven't included my /etc/dhcpd.conf, /etc/exports, /etc/hosts or /etc/hosts.allow as these elements all seem to work fine, but if they are relevant, I shall include them in a follow-up. My network's DNS server also appears to be working perfectly with reverse DNS lookups working fine. Can anyone suggest where to start troubleshooting? ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: IT Product Guide on ITManagersJournal Use IT products in your business? Tell us what you think of them. Give us Your Opinions, Get Free ThinkGeek Gift Certificates! Click to find out more http://productguide.itmanagersjournal.com/guidepromo.tmpl _____________________________________________________________________ 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.freenode.net
