[K12OSN] terminals now fail to boot

[Paul VanGundy]

Alex,

How is the cabling set up on this new server? Two NICs or one? What are
the cables hooked into (on the server). I had a similar error and it
ended up being that one of our techs accidentally plugged one of the
cables directly into the router which caused the exact TFTP issue you
are describing. Just another thing to check.

-Paul


Alexander Hicks wrote:
>
> Hi Everybody,
>
> I’ve just setup a server with K12LTSP 4.4.1 and had everything working
> fine until I imported users and rsync’d the home folders ~ now none of
> the terminals will boot – they hang with the messages below. Free beer
> and a round of golf at our course if you can help!
>
> New server setup was as follows:
>
> From Last year’s FC3 sever (same machine as this year):
>
> Export Users to our FC4 (4.4.1) proxy server via Webmin
>
> Export home folders to proxy server with rsync –essh –av .
> 192.168.0.12:/home
>
> Ignore message about possible “man in the middle attack”
>
> Clean, default, install of LTSP 4.4.1 on old server (now new server).
>
> Setup DNS on new server
>
> All terminals boot without problems (by either PXE or Universal Floppy)
>
> Install Webmin on new server.
>
> Import users from proxy server to new server via Webmin
>
> Export home folders from proxy server to new server with rsync –essh
> –av . 192.168.0.254:/home
>
> Ignore message about possible “man in the middle attack”
>
> Home folders moved without incident.
>
> Terminals now hang with the following message:
>
> (by PXE)
>
> Client Mac Addr: 00 13 90 00 f7 a7
>
> Client IP: 192.168.0.192 Mask 255.255.255.0 DHCP IP: 192.168.0.254
>
> Gateway IP: 192.168.0.254
>
> PXE-E32: TFTP open timeout
>
> TFTP…
>
> -or, by universal floppy
>
> Me: 192.168.0.188 Server: 255.255.255.0 Gateway: 192.168.0.254
>
> Loading 192.168.0.254:/lts/vmlinuz.ltsp…..
>
> Eventually they both declare boot failure and request a reset.
>
> We have a wide variety of terminals and all show this message (with
> changing local IP’s)
>
> The server appears to be working fine, handing out addresses to both
> Win and Linux machines, as well as network devices
>
> Internet through K12LTSP server is fine
>
> Samba from Proxy is also fine.
>
> Yum updating all now and hoping that a reboot will fix it, but I doubt
> it as I’ve already repeated everything above, just to see if I screwed
> something up the first time…
>
> I have very limited knowledge of how Linux works, so any help to get
> our campus going would be really appreciated…
>
> Thanks
>
> ~Alex
>
> Alexander Hicks
>
> Technology Coordinator
>
> Shaker Road School
>
> 131 Shaker Road
>
> Concord , NH 03301
>
> (603) 224-0161 ~ Voice
>
> (603) 226-0257 ~ Fax
>
> a_hicks at shakerroad.pvt.k12.nh.us
> <mailto:a_hicks at shakerroad.pvt.k12.nh.us>
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Paul VanGundy
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Epping School District
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