ubuntu 10.04: problems with thin clients hanging on boot

[Peter k]

Thanks for that email John. I think this is the same problem I was having.
-peter

On Tue, Sep 13, 2011 at 9:40 PM, David Hopkins <dahopkins429 at gmail.com>wrote:

> Are all the thin clients the same hardware? Do you have a  custom lts.conf
> specified?  I've had clients hang due to issues with some modules I was
> loading (glx).
>
> Sincerely,
> Dave Hopkins
>
>
>
> On Tue, Sep 13, 2011 at 9:02 PM, john <lists.john at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I have a problem that has persisted since I rolled out Ubuntu 10.04
>> with LTSP. In any given lab of 30 clients between 1 and 5 will hang
>> after they finish downloading the pxe image and start booting ubuntu.
>>  The little dots that show ubuntu is loading will continue forever.
>>
>> A bit of googling showed me that there had been a bug filed against
>> the nbd server that sounded like the problem I was having.
>> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ltsp/+bug/589034
>>
>> I downloaded the updated ltsp_nbd and followed the steps to disable
>> the nbd_proxy but my problem wasn't fixed
>>
>> I also tried telling nbd to sleep for 5 seconds before continuing as
>> method outlined here
>> http://www.rickogden.com/2010/06/ltsp-part-2-configuration/
>>
>> I haven't enabled NBD in my lts.conf file so maybe I am barking up the
>> wrong tree here. Can anyone give me some guidance?
>>
>> Thanks!
>>
>> John
>>
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