[Pkg-ltsp-devel] LTSP Local Applications support

[Vagrant Cascadian]

On Mon, May 04, 2009 at 05:04:53PM +0200, Jörg Herzinger wrote:
> I finally found out why local applications still don't work. While I
> installed ltsp-server from Squeeze the client still got built from the
> stable repos which don't include local applications support.

ah, that would make sense...

> I consider this as some serious Problem since I now got a new
> ltsp-server Package but and "old" client chroot.

it uses lsb_release to determine which distribution to use, and sometimes
lsb_release can't figure out the appropriate release.

> How could I fix this so that just the ltsp-client-core and such are
> taken from Squeeze? Will a "chroot /opt/ltsp/i386 apt-get -t testing
> install ltsp-client-core" fix this??

i'd recommend removing the old chroot in /opt/ltsp/i386 and re-installing the
chroot, explicitly telling it to build a squeeze chroot:

  ltsp-build-client --dist squeeze

live well,
  vagrant

 
> Am Mittwoch, den 29.04.2009, 14:42 +0200 schrieb Jörg Herzinger:
> > Hello, i'm using Debian Lenny with LTSP from Squeeze running in a
> > virtual Machine (KVM + libvirt) on a Dell PowerEdge 2950. It's supposed
> > to run about 40 Clients which is a bit too much for this machine. Now
> > I'm trying to get ltsp_localapps to run some apps (iceweasel, icedove,
> > gimp, openoffice...) locally but it just won't work.
> > To test it I installed xterm in my chroot which I can confirm is in my
> > clients system. Logging in on tty1 and 
> > 	ltsp:/var/log# whereis xterm
> > 	xterm: /usr/bin/xterm ....
> > gives the correct results. But running "ltsp-localapps /usr/bin/xterm"
> > in gnome terminal does absolutely nothing. I can't even find any logs
> > about authentication or anything on either server or client side. What
> > else could there be that I haven't thought of or how could I trace what
> > and where it goes wrong.
> > 
> > tia
> > 	Jörg Herzinger
> >  
> 
> 
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