[Pkg-ltsp-devel] Bug#458127: Bug#458127: ltsp client does not boot correctly

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On Fri, Dec 28, 2007 at 04:05:22PM -0500, Theodore Flamouropoulos wrote:
> Package: ltsp-server
> Version: 5.0.39 debian1

thanks for the report.

i suspect you mean 5.0.39debian1 ?
 
> I also noticed  that although tftpd-hpa and openbsd-inetd  were packages
> installed as dependencies, the 'tftp' entry in inetd.conf was not inserted as
> part of the package install. consequently  tftpd did not work when I tried to
> boot the ltsp client. After I inserted the following entry -->
> 
> 'tftp  dgram   udp   wait   root   /usr/sbin/in.tftpd  /usr/sbin/in.tftpd -s /
> var/lib/tftpboot -r blksize' 

the tftpd-hpa package runs update-inetd as part of it's postinst by
default, so you may want to explore what happened there and file a
separate bug on the tftpd-hpa package for that.
 
> into inetd.conf the ltsp client successfully received the kernel from the
> tftpboot directory and began the booting process through the initial stage
> until 'something went wrong' and I ended up staring at the following lines on
> the ltsp client monitor:
> 
> -------------------------------------------------------
> /init:  14:  grep:    not found
> /init:  14:  tr:         not found
> [:       14:  49152:   unexpected operator
> mount:                  No such device
> mount:                 Invalid argument
> /init: 14:   tr:        not found
> Begin:      Running  /scripts/nfs-bottom
> Done:
> Done:
> Begin:     Running  /scripts/init-bottom
> mount:    No such file or directory
> Done:
> mount:  No such file or directory
> mount:  No such file or directory
> Target filesystem doesn't have /sbin/init
> No init found. Try passing init=  bootargs
> (initramfs)_
> -----------------------------------------------------------------------

sounds like it's missing "grep" and "tr" used by the ltsp_nbd script,
and a recent change in initramfs-tools causes it to select ltsp_nbd
instead of the nfs script, which doesn't use grep and tr...  

try adding boot=nfs to /var/lib/tftpboot/ltsp/i386/pxelinux.cfg/default

although i'm still surprised that it would be missing grep and tr, as
i've tested with nfs as well as ltsp_nbd with both physical thin clients
and virtualbox thin clients.  (though i would expect other things to
break without additional manual configuration)

live well,
  vagrant