[00:33] <monteslu_> ogra not hang out in here anymore?
[01:21] <monteslu> stgraber, have you done an ltsp installation with mutliple ltsp servers?
[01:21] <monteslu> I've got 70 thin clients and I'm setting up 2 new servers today
[01:21] <monteslu> two dual-quad cores with 16GB ram a piece
[01:22] <monteslu> total of 8 cores and 32 GB between the two boxes, more hardware than I've ever been able to throw at ltsp :)
[01:22] <monteslu> actually 16 cores between the boxes
[01:22] <monteslu> 8 cores a piece
[01:24] <monteslu> In the past i've used matt olquist's smbldap installer script to setup and connect my two old servers to the ldap server
[01:25] <monteslu> this year i have to do it manually because the smbldap installer is no longer being updated
[02:20] <stgraber> monteslu: I haven't done that kind of installation myself but I'm working for a company how does :)
[02:21] <stgraber> *who
[02:21] <stgraber> monteslu: anything that you think might be a problem with multiple ltsp servers ?
[02:23] <monteslu> stgraber, sure plenty of problems :)
[02:23] <monteslu> well, specifically there isn't any real support for it
[02:24] <monteslu> all I'm doing is pointing certain workstations at the secondary server via the lts.conf
[02:24] <monteslu> so if server 1 goes down, it's all down
[02:24] <monteslu> and if server 2 goes down, it's half down
[02:25] <stgraber> doesn't ldm provide a way of selecting a server from a list ? I thought it did
[02:25] <monteslu> My main concern for now though is connecting 8.04 to my old ldap server without the smbldap clilent configuration script
[02:25] <monteslu> stgraber, you mean for the user to do that?
[02:26] <monteslu> i'd rather it just did a round robin, and allowed for overridign
[02:26] <stgraber> that or using ldminfod to select one, I recall something like that but never used it
[02:26] <monteslu> overriding
[02:27] <stgraber> monteslu: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/SimpleLDMLoadBalancing
[02:27] <monteslu> I would still need to failover my dhcp server
[02:27] <monteslu> i just did the normal edubuntu ltsp setup and disalbed dhcp on the secondary
[02:28] <monteslu> oooh, very cool. Thanks for the link
[02:31] <monteslu> this is also the first time I'm using servers with more than 4GB of memory
[02:31] <monteslu> I'm not going to use the x86_64 kernel though because of the assholes at Adobe
[02:31] <monteslu> but I think i need to select server kernel or some such thing to address all my 16GB on each server
[02:32] <stgraber> yeah, you'll need the server kernel for > 4GB
[02:43] <monteslu> I think there was something else I had to do to the secondary server....
[02:43] <monteslu> something about copyin ssh keys from the primary server
[02:43] <monteslu> sound familiar?
[02:46] <stgraber> yeah, you'll need the public key of both servers in the chroot
[02:46] <stgraber> or make both servers to have the same public key
[02:56] <monteslu> cool
[02:56] <monteslu> ok, new problem :)
[02:57] <monteslu> following the instructions word for word, and i'm getting (initramfs) instead of a login screen...
[02:57] <monteslu> so i removed "quiet" from tftboot
[02:58] <monteslu> gettign an error: connection refused
[02:59] <monteslu> then mount: Mounting /rofs on /root/rofs failed: Invalid argument
[02:59] <monteslu> and it doesn't get any better from there
[03:00] <monteslu> ooh, lots of hits, must be a common bug
[03:02] <stgraber> that means that your nbd server didn't answer
[03:03] <stgraber> does your server answer on tcp/2000 (default nbd port) ?
[03:05] <monteslu> nope
[03:05] <monteslu> tried telnetting and got nothing
[03:06] <monteslu> someone suggested ltsp-build-client on the forum
[03:06] <monteslu> giving it a shot
[03:06] <monteslu> http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=686966
[03:08] <stgraber> hmm, indeed it won't work if you don't have a chroot
[03:08] <stgraber> so ltsp-build-client is the first step
[03:09] <stgraber> it'll generate the chroot and add it to tftp and nbd
[03:09] <monteslu> shouldn't that have been done by the installer?
[03:14] <stgraber> depends how you installed it ?
[03:14] <stgraber> was that with the alternate CD-Rom and the LTSP option ?
[03:17] <monteslu> yup
[03:17] <monteslu> it put some stuff down
[03:17] <monteslu> like the /opt/ltsp was there
[03:18] <monteslu> but it must not have been complete, becuase this build client script is taking as long as that install did
[03:20] <stgraber> indeed, that's because it does an install :)
[03:20] <stgraber> (well, except the desktop part of it)
[03:22] <monteslu> https://help.ubuntu.com/community/UbuntuLTSP/LTSPQuickInstall  "If the installer is done and has rebooted into your new system you will be able to boot your first Thin Client right away."
[03:22] <monteslu> that might need some revising :)
[03:31] <monteslu> cool, I'm in on the first server. Now to change to the big kernel, then connect to my ldap server, then setup the second box
[03:42] <monteslu> apparently installing linux-server doesn't automatically tell grub to use it
[03:48] <monteslu> nevermind. it worked. Restarting from a thin client doesnt
[03:48] <monteslu> but that's fine
[03:49] <monteslu> i can always do it on a comand line
[07:29] <Neil3> hey folks, just wondering how suitable edubuntu is for a home, rather than classroom, environment, say for a pc for my 4 and 5 year old kids?
[18:12] <highvoltage> *LaserHug*
[18:15] <LaserJock> hi highvoltage
[18:15] <elk80> hi everyone
[18:16] <highvoltage> hi LaserJock and elk80
[18:16] <elk80> How's everyone doing today?
[18:17] <LaserJock> still waking up here
[18:17]  * LaserJock yawns
[18:17] <elk80> have some coffee :)
[18:18] <LaserJock> unfortunately I haven't figured out how to get a coffee habit
[18:18] <LaserJock> the stuff is so nasty I just have a hard time choking it down
[18:18] <LaserJock> 10 years of uni and I still can't do it ;-)
[18:23] <elk80> You haven't tried a Latte or starbucks drink then :) they're mostly cream/sugar :)
[23:38] <monteslu> anyone have sudo throwing Seg faults on them?
[23:39] <monteslu> I'm using 8.04.1
[23:39] <monteslu> seems to not be able to write to the /root