Hi folks,

just spent another day playing around LTSP 5 and made some progress -
for those who read quick my questions first:

-> Is there somewhere some UP-TO-DATE Documentation on LTSP 5,
especially on
        - lts.conf options?
        - remote sound?

-> How are the kernels updated using LTSP 5? What means of manually
trying out various client-fs kernels do I have?

And here's a brief status-report for the mail-archive (comments are
welcome):

Am Freitag, den 28.12.2007, 21:30 +0100 schrieb Stefan Ulrich Hegner:
> Biggest headache at the moment is, that the client's xserver seems to
> start but then aparently dies down in automatic boot and I get a
> text-login.
That problem was in front of the console - I had xfs-support configured
but specified the wrong server. ... too bad.

> However, could it be, that there are problems with the downloadable
> i386-client-fs for Debian/Etch from the LTSP site? (I run amd64 so I
> can't build one myself)

[some errors during boot ...]

> This makes me believe, that my client root-fs is buggy, even though it's
> an official download.

http://ltsp.mirrors.tds.net/pub/ltsp/ltsp-5.0/ltsp_debian_etch_i386-1.tar.bz2

I now strongly suppose that this client-fs is somehow buggy, especially
since I cut fix most of the problems going down another avenue:

I finally went down the long path by building my own i386 debian lenny
root-fs on amd64 using debootstrap & chroot (thanks to the debian amd64
howto this was manageable quite easy - but I had to force-install
ltsp-server due to the depend on nfs-kernel-server that could not be
installed in chroot).

Nevertheless, the supplied i386-Kernel 2.6.22-3-486 won't boot properly.
After doing some research I found that I'm not the only one encountering
this behaviour:

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=458127

The next problem is, that no login is possible with ldm using this
client-fs - possibly another bug in the ltsp-package. Whenever I try to
login using ldm, I get

        verifying password, please wait ...

and after 5 Min. or so ldm resets.

It took me a whole while since I'd read the remarks about the
"SCREEN_01" to "06" options in 

http://wiki.debian.org/LTSP/FAQ
http://wiki.debian.org/LTSP/Upgrading_4.2

only superficially ... if it says 01-06 does conflict, that does not
mean that "SCREEN_07" conflicts, too. So having set 

SCREEN_07       = startx

(and patched /usr/lib/ltsp/screen.d/startx to work with "-indirect"
instead of "-query") I'm up and running for the moment.

The Next step will be remote sound with LTSP 5.

Thanks

Stefan.

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