[Ltsp-developer] Porting to Redhat 7.2

[Matthew T. O'C. <ma...@ze...>]

Hello, I have a need to run ltsp on a redhat 7.2 server.  I downloaded the 
latest ltsp release (2.0.9 pre3) and tried to port it to redhat 7.2. 

I started this process with the assumption (perhaps an ignorant assumption) 
that 7.2 is basically the same as 7.1.  So I created a new symlink in the 
lts_core directory to link 7.2 to the redhat.sh script ( redhat-7.2.sh -> 
redhat.sh).  

Then I modified the redhat.sh script to treat 7.2 the same as 7.1.  Mostly I 
changed lines like: 

if [ "${VERSION}" = "7.1" ]; then

to:

if [ "${VERSION}" = "7.1" -o "${VERSION}" = "7.2" ]; then

i think I did all this correctly as everything installed without error.

Currently I can not get a client machine to get an IP from dhcp, and get a 
kernel from the tftp server.  The problem I am having is that it will not 
load X correctly.  If I have the system boot into init level 3 I will get a 
shell.  If I then manually run /tmp/start_ws X will load but without a xdm / 
gdm / kdm login screen.  Just the barebones grey background with a big X for 
the mouse cursor.

Obviously the problem is somewhere with the XDMCP request to the server.  I 
can't tell if the client is making the request and the server is ignoring it, 
or if the client is failing to make the request, and I don't know where to 
look, or how to tell the server PC to log these requests somewhere.

Any help would be appreciated.  I can even allow a login to my server PC if 
that would be helpful.

FYI here is the start_ws script (10.1.1.6 is the corrects erver IP):

/usr/X11R6/bin/XFree86 -ac -query 10.1.1.6 > /dev/tty3 2>&1