Am Montag, den 08.05.2006, 17:10 -0400 schrieb John Blinka: > Hi, > > I hope someone can help me debug an ltsp installation. It worked > perfectly up until a power outage that brought the server and all > the terminals down suddenly. Upon restarting, the terminals all > show something like this: > > Boot from (N)etwork or from (L)ocal? N > Probing... [3C5x9]3C5x9 board on ISA at 0x300-10baseT > Ethernet address: 00:A0:24:98:14:55 > Searching for Server (DHCP).... > ...... No server found > > The server appears to work perfectly, so the problem is not some > obvious hardware failure. I've followed the instructions under > "7.2.2 Is dhcpd running?" in the troubleshooting section of the > online ltsp documentation, and it appears that dhcpd is, indeed, > running. That's consistent with the fact that the ltsp server is > successfully supplying ip addresses to windows boxes on the same > network. Nothing has changed in any of the terminals. However, > server software was upgraded on several occasions before the power > outage. So it's possible that the software upgrades (all done > via Gentoo's Portage system) clobbered a critical configuration > file that ltsp depends on or that there's a software bug.
As you mention software upgrades, you possibly ran into the DHCPd behaviour change regarding "next-server" parameter. This has been written several times before on this list: If a "next-server" parameter is absent in dhcpd.conf, and you upgrade from 3.0.1 to 3.0.2 (iirc), Etherboot and many PXE implementations will stop working. Solution to that problem: Enter "next-server 192.168.0.1;" in dhcpd.conf (using the IP of the TFTP server on your network - will be the LTSP in most setups). HTH Anselm ------------------------------------------------------- Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 _____________________________________________________________________ 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
