ubuntu 10.04: problems with thin clients hanging on boot

[David Groos]

Is it standard practice to name your clients by MAC address in the lts.conf
file?  I heard it speeds things up.

For example at the bottom of my lts.conf file I've got all clients named.
Here are a few lines...

[00:02:A5:8F:6D:D4]
HOSTNAME=g-1a
[00:02:A5:90:59:98]
HOSTNAME=g-1b
[00:02:A5:90:56:FB]
HOSTNAME=g-2a

David G


On Wed, Sep 14, 2011 at 8:27 PM, Peter k <peter at beetlebolt.com> wrote:

> 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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