[Pkg-ltsp-devel] Bug#440856: ltsp-server: Missing config settings in the chroot; keyboard layout is most important

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On Tue, Sep 04, 2007 at 03:05:09PM -0600, Bryan Sutula wrote:
> After apt-get install ltsp-server, I try to execute ltsp-build-client.  It
> completes, but the created chroot is missing some of config settings.  The
> most important is the keyboard layout.  Without this, the clients fail to
> boot into X.  dexconf returns an error saying that the keyboard layout is
> missing.
> 
> I've worked around this by adding the layout option to lts.conf:
> 
>         XKBLAYOUT       = us

this should not be necessary, no...

> While trying to understand this behavior, I noticed that the chroot doesn't
> have the correct timezone (fixed this with "dpkg-reconfigure tzdata" in the
> chroot).  I suspect that any other settings that were to be copied from the
> server are missing as well.
 
quite possible many missing values, yes. pulled in a patch from ubuntu
which should configure the timezone, which i hope to include in a new
upload soon. please report bugs as you find them.

> Just a shot in the dark, but could this be for the same reason as bug
> #440854?  Could ltsp-build-client be executing code that tries to preseed
> debconf values without the "-e" option?

i can't imagine so, the only place ltsp-build-client uses debconf
preseeding is in /usr/share/ltsp/plugins/ltsp-build-client/Debian/
025-locales and 010-debconf-seeds. 

looks like there's a significant bug in 025-locales ...

=== modified file 'server/plugins/ltsp-build-client/Debian/025-locales'
--- server/plugins/ltsp-build-client/Debian/025-locales	2007-06-01 15:40:37 +0000
+++ server/plugins/ltsp-build-client/Debian/025-locales	2007-09-05 03:36:34 +0000
@@ -33,7 +33,7 @@
         fi
 
         # set debian-installer/keymap question in the chroot if present on the server
-        debian_installer_keymap="$(debconf-get-selections debian-installer/keymap)"
+        debian_installer_keymap="$(debconf-get-selections | grep debian-installer/keymap)"
         if [ -n "$debian_installer_keymap" ]; then
             echo "$debian_installer_keymap" | chroot $ROOT debconf-set-selections
         fi


i've seen several installations running 5.0.8debian3 and not encountered
the problem you'r e having... so i wonder what's different about your
particular setup that causes X to fail...

thanks for reporting this issue...

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  vagrant