[K12OSN] What area to restore from backup?

["Terrell Prudé, Jr."]

Joseph Bishay wrote:

>Hello,
>
>I am having a weird problem - the students have been resetting the 
>server by hitting the reboot button.  So far there hasn't been any 
>hardware issues, but I have noticed an unusual thing: the clients are 
>no longer responding to ctrl-alt-+/- in order to change the monitor 
>resolution.  Many of the screens have reverted to 640x480 resolution, 
>which is rather useless. They're not responding to any changes using 
>X_MODE_0 or anything else.
>
>It has been suggested that the rebooting has caused the files 
>relating to client boot-up have been corrupted. I have backups using 
>Mondo Archive, but I'd like to know what directory I need to restore. 
>Or is it possible there is something else?
>
>I am using the Redhat 9 version of k12ltsp.
>
>Thank you kindly.
>Joseph
>  
>

What I believe you want to restore is /opt/ltsp/i386/.  That's where 
everything for the clients lives--settings, X11 server, and so on.

I trust that the server itself behaving as expected when you sit in 
front of it?

--TP
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