[Pkg-ltsp-devel] Bug#552031: Configuration of ldm-server during install hangs

[Vagrant Cascadian]

On Thu, Oct 22, 2009 at 09:43:20PM +0200, David Steiner wrote:
> I was installing ltsp-server-standalone. During the installation it stopped responding at:
> Setting up debootstrap (1.0.20) ...
> Setting up ldm-server (2:2.0.48-1) ...
> 
> Looks like a process turned into a Zombie:
> 
> ps aux | grep ldm
> root      3944  0.0  0.2  10876  4280 pts/1    S<s+ 21:24   0:00 /usr/bin/dpkg --status-fd 10 --configure libssh2-1 libcurl3 curl libconfig-file-perl libapt-pkg-perl liblist-moreutils-perl apt-file binutils libdbus-1-3 libexpat1 dbus debconf-utils defoma dhcp3-server ttf-dejavu-core ttf-dejavu-extra ttf-dejavu fontconfig-config libfontconfig1 fontconfig libfuse2 fuse-utils libasound2 libavutil49 libdirac-encoder0 libfaad2 libgsm1 libopenjpeg2 liboil0.3 libschroedinger-1.0-0 libspeex1 libogg0 libtheora0 libvorbis0a libvorbisenc2 libavcodec52 libcelt0 libsamplerate0 libjack0 libasyncns0 libflac8 libice6 libsm6 libsndfile1 libxtst6 libpulse0 libasound2-plugins libsysfs2 tsconf libts-0.0-0 libdirectfb-1.2-0 libpixman-1-0 libpng12-0 libxcb-render0 libxcb-render-util0 libxrender1 libcairo2 libdatrie1 libfile-copy-recursive-perl libfont-freetype-perl libfontenc1 libglib2.0-0 libglib2.0-data libobparser21 libpango1.0-common libthai-data libthai0 libxft2 libpango1.0-0 libobrender21 li
>  bxcb-atom1 libxcb-aux0 libxcb-event1 libstartup-notification0 libxfont1 libxinerama1 libxrandr2 ltspfs menu nbd-server nfs-kernel-server openbox openbox-themes update-inetd openbsd-inetd shared-mime-info squashfs-tools xfonts-encodings xfonts-utils x-ttcidfont-conf debootstrap ldm-server ltsp-docs ltsp-server tftpd-hpa ltsp-server-standalone
> root      4644  0.0  0.5  53324 11064 pts/1    S<+  21:24   0:00 /usr/bin/perl -w /usr/share/debconf/frontend /var/lib/dpkg/info/ldm-server.postinst configure 
> root      4650  0.0  0.0      0     0 pts/1    Z<+  21:24   0:00 [ldm-server.post] <defunct>
> 
> After purging ltsp-standalone and reinstalling it seems to configure, without hanging.

i just did a clean squeeze install, ran:

  apt-get install lxde-core ltsp-server-standalone
  
and had no such problem.

the only thing the ldm-server postinst script does is a call to update-inetd.
maybe update-inetd was installed(it's a dependency of ldm-server), but not in a
functional state(update-inetd might have been unpacked but not installed). if
that was your problem, we might need to explore using pre-depends.
 
> A different issue is that ndb-server doesn't start, with the following message:

a different issue should generally be filed in a separate bug report...

> Setting up nbd-server (1:2.9.14-1) ...
> Adding system user `nbd' (UID 105) ...
> Adding new group `nbd' (GID 108) ...
> Adding new user `nbd' (UID 105) with group `nbd' ...
> Not creating home directory `/etc/nbd-server'.
> 
> ** (process:4331): WARNING **: Could not parse config file: Could not open config file /etc/nbd-server/config.
> ** Message: Nothing to do! Bye!
>  nbd-server.

this sounds to me like a minor bug in the nbd-server package; it's a bit too
noisy with the default install. please report it against nbd-server.

> I'm trying to get Swap over NBD to work. Should I add a config file or is LTSP suppose to do this automatically?
> Thanks for your work.

see the docs in /usr/share/doc/ltsp-server/swap.

live well,
  vagrant