[Pkg-ltsp-devel] Bug#395145: booting hang up

[vagrant at freegeek.org]

On Sat, Jun 02, 2007 at 06:45:52PM -0300, Amadeu Júnior wrote:
> the problem here is about the following messages displayed on boot of
> ltsp client:
> ----------------------
> Begin: Mounting root file system....
> Begin: Running /scripts/nfs-top ...
> Done.
> IP-Config: eth0 ...
> eth0: link up, ...
> ----------------------

ok. now i see.

it seems like the original bug reporter was experiencing this problem,
and then maybe started experiencing a different problem...  which i
think we've fixed.

but i'm not sure we've actually fixed the original problem (though i
haven't experienced it myself).
 
> >if it seems different that the issues relating to this bug report,
> >please file a new bug report.
 
> I don't know if it's different at whole, but the effect is the same
> and because this I posted on this bug too. If you think this problem
> is different of the issues on this bug report, please inform to me
> because I will make a new bug.

lets keep on this bug report for now, though maybe we'll need to clone
this bug report later if it does turn out to be two similar but
different issues.

> You could see that the problem about the "eth0 down.. eth0 up"
> messages was ugly fixed with a "ifconfig eth0 up" command. It forces
> the initialization of the network card. So after this, the ipconfig
> works fine and the nfs mounting works fine too. Without this ugly hack
> on my tests the boot of client hang up forever.

ok.

just to make sure, in dhcpd.conf could you try both with:

   next-server 192.168.0.1;
   option root-path "/opt/ltsp/i386";

or:

   option root-path "192.168.0.1:/opt/ltsp/i386";

does the same problem happen when configured with next-server separated
out, as when you just specify root-path?


what version of initramfs-tools?

  dpkg --root=/opt/ltsp/i386 -l initramfs-tools


and, if you upgraded initramfs-tools in the chroot, did you also run
ltsp-update-kernels afterwards ? are there differences reported with:

diff -r /opt/ltsp/i386/boot/ /var/lib/tftpboot/ltsp/i386/


thanks for taking the time to troubleshoot this issue :)

live well,
  vagrant