[Pkg-ltsp-devel] Bug#679187: ltsp-server: Login from diskless client fails "server not responding. restart ...")

[Andreas Brogle]

Package: ltsp-server
Version: 5.4.1-1
Severity: important

Dear Maintainer,

since a month ago, ltsp had been working for me fine for several years.

With an update of Debian Sid I get this problem first time, if any of the users on the clients tries to login with ldm.
"Keine Antwort des Server. Neustart ..." (translates to "server not responding. restart ...")

Although this bug seems to exist since years, I couldn't find a solution for me, despite of extensively researching the internet. Nobody seems to understand the problem.

I found out a way to avoid the above, but it's not practically :
Make a root account in the chroot environment.
Do a login as root on a client console.
<CTRL> + <ALT> + F1
Make a ssh connection to the server.
[client$] ssh server
Switch back to ldm.
<ALT> + F7
Login as user with ldm works now as it should as long, as the client machine is not rebooted.

I hope this helps one of the developers to solve that bug. There seems to be something wrong with ssh.

Thanks,
Andreas

-- Package-specific info:
chroot information: /opt/ltsp/i386

-- System Information:
Debian Release: wheezy/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 3.4-4.slh.1-aptosid-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores; PREEMPT)
Locale: LANG=de_DE.utf8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages ltsp-server depends on:
ii  debconf [debconf-2.0]  1.5.44
ii  debconf-utils          1.5.44
ii  debootstrap            1.0.41
ii  gettext-base           0.18.1.1-9
ii  iproute                20120521-3
ii  lsb-release            4.1+Debian7
ii  openssh-client         1:6.0p1-2
ii  python                 2.7.3~rc2-1
ii  tcpd                   7.6.q-23
ii  update-inetd           4.43

Versions of packages ltsp-server recommends:
ii  dnsmasq                           2.62-3
ii  nbd-server                        1:3.1.1-1
ii  nfs-kernel-server                 1:1.2.6-2
ii  openbsd-inetd [inet-superserver]  0.20091229-2
ii  openssh-server                    1:6.0p1-2
ii  squashfs-tools                    1:4.2-4+b1
ii  tftpd-hpa                         5.2-2

Versions of packages ltsp-server suggests:
pn  audiooss                           <none>
ii  dnsmasq                            2.62-3
ii  fluxbox [x-window-manager]         1.3.2-4
ii  isc-dhcp-server [dhcp3-server]     4.2.2.dfsg.1-5
ii  ldm-server                         2:2.2.10-1
ii  libasound2-plugins                 1.0.25-2
ii  ltsp-docs                          1.1-1
ii  ltspfs                             1.1-2
ii  metacity [x-window-manager]        1:2.34.3-2
ii  pulseaudio                         2.0-3
pn  qemu-user-static                   <none>
pn  sdm                                <none>
ii  x11-utils                          7.7~1
ii  xauth                              1:1.0.7-1
ii  xfce4-session [x-session-manager]  4.8.3-2
ii  xfwm4 [x-window-manager]           4.8.3-1

-- debconf information:
  ltsp-server/build_client: false