Has anyone successfully upgraded from 7.04 to 7.10 with ltsp?

[R. Scott Belford]

Scott Balneaves wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 22, 2007 at 02:07:47PM -1000, R. Scott Belford wrote:
> 
>> On Thursday we followed the happy, friendly suggestion to upgrade to 
>> 7.10 that appeared in the software updater app.  On Friday morning, 
>> after a night of downloading, the upgrade broke our functioning server. 
>>   You can see some of my other posts covering these issues.
> 
> It's always a good idea to test an upgrade first.  Chances are, you're
> not running a stock edubuntu box (you can't be, since you're using 
> smbldap, which isn't as yet included by default), so there's always a
> possibility that things will break.

Thanks, Scott.  Actually it is a completely stock Edubuntu install.  The
only variation is that we have modified the server to authenticate off
of a CentOS ldap server on the network.  I do not think that this would
affect the ltsp services after an upgrade.

I consider myself to be the 'test' of this dist-upgrade.  I imagine that 
plenty of people are going to click the upgrade button with the 
presumption that it will automagically 'just work'.  I am here for them, 
and if I can take the lumps first, then we all benefit.  I'm a helper, 
not a user.

> 
>> Our upgrade from Feisty to Gutsy was a failure.  If it was just the 
>> teacher doing it, this would be a debacle.  I have been able to follow 
>> some advice and have done the following
>>
>> mv /opt/ltsp/i386 /opt/ltsp/i286-feist
>> ltsp-build-client
>> ltsp-update-image
>> ltsp-update-kernels
>> ltsp-update-sshkeys
> 
> No, the correct order would be:
> 
> ltsp-build-client
> ltsp-update-sshkeys
> ltsp-updake-kernels
> ltsp-update-image (this should always be last)

Okay, thanks for the clarification.  The man pages for each utility did 
not yield this information.  Is it documented elsewhere, or should I put 
it on my wiki to-do list?

I truly have no idea why this worked, but this afternoon, shortly after 
my posts, I added this line to my /etc/network/interfaces file's eth1 config

up iptables-restore < /etc/ltsp/nat.conf

to re-engage the NAT services I was using with 7.04

I also added these lines to /etc/network/options (I already had the 
ip_forward line)

spoofprotect=yes
syncookies=no

restarted the network, noticed some syslog activity like this

Oct 22 14:32:23 liho-ltsp-g5 ltsp: # Creating -hostkey for 192.168.0.254

and the teacher called to say that the Apple's on the LAN were getting 
their IP address and route from the Edubuntu Server, that the clients 
were booting, authenticating from the LDAP server, and loading their 
customized desktops.

For what it is worth, this is the lab in Hawaii where the Fedora project 
got its start.  Things have come a long way since then.

> 
> Scott
> 

--scott




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