How likely to work would a Jaunty-to-Karmic server upgrade, be?

[David Groos]

I've attempted a Jaunty to Karmic LTSP server upgrade.  Things weren't
completely smooth but I was able to do the upgrade without too much
problem.  However, when I test boot a thin client, the screen goes to its
regular point of the last line saying DHCP (at this point it usually grabs
an image) but after less than .5 of a second it says: "PXE-E32: TFTP open
timeout" then says, TFTP... (with the number of dots increasing slowly).

Thanks Harry for the link to the page at
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1309835 I did what they
recommended.  TC still don't boot.

Gavin suggests trying to restart the DHCP and /etc/init.d/openbsd-inetd so I
did though that advice was for Hardy (
http://www.linux-archive.org/edubuntu-user/177090-pxe-e32-tftp-open-timeout-error.html).
Still no luck--thin clients don't want to boot.  I plugged my laptop into
the proper nic on the server and it gets an IP, so I think DHCP is working.
Not sure where to look from here. Any ideas?

Thanks!
David

On Thu, Nov 5, 2009 at 9:38 AM, Harry Sweet <hsweet at gcsny.org> wrote:

> All seem well after:
>
> sudo apt-get remove network-manager network-manager-gnome
>
>
>
> >>> "Harry Sweet" <hsweet at gcsny.org> 11/03/09 9:08 PM >>>
> Three minutes and 46 seconds, to be precise : )
>
> Round 1
>
> Almost got there.  But I restored at the end of the day.
> I copied the new one to  an image and I plan on returning soon.
>
> There were some network issues... The supposedly
> static server ip and DNS kept on getting changes/lost.
> I could get it working, but how it behaved after a reboot
> was random.
>
> I think this is the problem....seems there are 2 things fighting for
> control.
> http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1309835
>
> Round 2, I'll restore the new system and try the fix from the forum.
>
> It fixed problems I was having with Inkscape and Gimp.
>
> -----------------------
> On cloning
>
> We use Clonezilla for our windows systems.  Clonezilla uses partimage.
>
> We just have a 500 gig usb hard drive for server backups.  Partimage
> takes about 15 minutes to do a full gzipped image and about 4 to put it
> back.
>
> We have /home in a separate partition, so there is not that much to clone.
> Gzipped, its maybe 5 gigs, maybe less a bit.
>
> I know it works, because It worked today, and this is not the first time I
> needed it.
>
> I'm not sure it handles ext4 yet, so I'm staying on 3
>
> have fun;;
>
>
>
> >>> David Groos <djgroos at gmail.com> 11/03/09 7:11 PM >>>
> How's it looking Harry?
>
> And, how can you restore a system in <4 minutes?  I use clonezilla and to
> burn the server image back onto a server it takes some 3-4 hours...  I
> don't
> use partimage though--seems like that would would only repair part of the
> deal?
>
> David
>
> On Mon, Nov 2, 2009 at 9:05 PM, Harry Sweet <hsweet at gcsny.org> wrote:
>
> > I hope to find out tomorrow. I started the upgrade before I left work.
> >
> > Of course, I have a known working partimage-image so I can restore the
> > existing system
> > in <4 minutes if anything bad should happen.  I know how long it takes
> > because I borked
> > the server a couple of weeks ago trying to uninstall some weird software.
> >
> > I would definitely recommend taking that precaution.  Check out the Linux
> > Rescue CD
> >
> > And oh, yeah, doing the upgrade will just upgrade the server.  You need
> to
> > also chroot and
> > ltsp-- help me with the command..  or the clients will still have the old
> > sytem.
> >
> >
> >
>
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