I've been running LTSP under Ubuntu for a few years. For various reasons I just recently switched one of my installations over to Debian LTSP (Debian Wheezy). Ubuntu LTSP uses NBD and Debian uses NFS. I've been pleased with some of the advantages of using LTSP with NFS.
With Ubuntu NBD LTSP it was no problem "cloning" a client chroot from one server to another by just rsyncing everything. After running ltsp-update-image I was able to use the new image from the clients. I was thinking it would be the same when mounting the Debian client system via NFS but that does not seem to be the case. It looks like I'm having dbus problems: Sep 3 14:49:24 tlin12 dbus[3329]: [system] Activating service name='org.freedesktop.Accounts' (using servicehelper) Sep 3 14:49:24 tlin12 dbus[3329]: [system] Activated service 'org.freedesktop.Accounts' failed: Failed to execute program /usr/lib/dbus- 1.0/dbus-daemon-launch-helper: Success Sep 3 14:49:24 tlin12 gdm-welcome][4054]: AccountsService-WARNING: Failed to create accounts proxy: Error calling StartServiceByName for org.freedesktop.Accounts: GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.Spawn.ExecFailed: Failed to execute program /usr/lib/dbus-1.0/dbus-daem on-launch-helper: Success Sep 3 14:49:24 tlin12 gdm-welcome][4054]: GLib-GIO-CRITICAL: g_dbus_proxy_call_internal: assertion `G_IS_DBUS_PROXY (proxy)' failed I'm getting other errors but this seems to be what starts everything off. What happens on the client screen is that I get a blank X11 screen with a busy mouse cursor. It just stays that way. I'm using gdm3 and it doesn't help to restart it. I get the same behavior if I start X11 using xinit and start gdm3 by hand from the xterm. The chroot works just fine when mounted from the original server. I don't know anything about how dbus works so I have no idea what could be going wrong. Does anybody have any ideas? Or any ideas how to debug it to find out more about where it's going wrong? Thanks, Matthew ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Learn the latest--Visual Studio 2012, SharePoint 2013, SQL 2012, more! Discover the easy way to master current and previous Microsoft technologies and advance your career. Get an incredible 1,500+ hours of step-by-step tutorial videos with LearnDevNow. Subscribe today and save! http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=58040911&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _____________________________________________________________________ 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
