Re: [Ltsp-discuss] LTSP Client Boot Issue (Rick Bond)

[David B. <ap...@gm...>]

On 18/04/2008, jam <ja...@ti...> wrote:
>
>
> On Fri, 2008-04-18 at 12:13 -0700,
> lts...@li... wrote:
>
> [snip]
>
> > PXE boots, pulls an IP, loads the OS and then sticks at a "Ready"
> > prompt.  If it stays there for more than 6'ish seconds then forget
> > it...it's stuck.  Otherwise within seconds it continues and we get a
> > login screen.
> >
> > Now these PC's that stick at "Ready"...we usually hold in the power
> > button until the PC dies and then turn it back on and try again.  The
> > problem is sporadic among the machines, sometimes it will finally
> > kick
> > in on the 5th reboot, sometimes the 2nd.  It's getting old.  Anyone
> > seen
> > such a problem?  We updated the Bios version on these PC's, but it
> > didn't seem to help.  Thanks very much for even reading this.
> >
> > By the way....we are running Edubuntu 7.04.
>
> Rick
> wireshark is easy to get and to use (on your server)
> Instead of everyone poking in the dark, set wireshark to run and
> feedback what is happening
>
> IE
> you should see the DHCP negotiation
> then PXE and TFTP
> then sieve (I assume edbantu uses squash images)
> etc
>
> Reporting what happened and if you can compare good and bad, what does
> NOT happen will help enormously.
>
> (and the network stuff *might* be the same good and bad saying the
> problems is your clients)
>
> James



Any reason you're logging out with the power button? This leaves a lot of
processes open on the server and is generally messy, at least in my
observation.

db