[K12OSN] terminals now fail to boot - Update

[Alexander Hicks]

Turned off iptables and received three "ok" messages - terminals remain
unchanged.  Turned off firewall for good measure, still no joy.

I can add a pool party, if necessary.
~Alex

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From: k12osn-bounces at redhat.com [mailto:k12osn-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf
Of James P. Kinney III
Sent: Wednesday, August 30, 2006 3:35 PM
To: Support list for open source software in schools.
Subject: RE: [K12OSN] terminals now fail to boot - Update

At this point, try turning off iptables

service iptables stop

then try rebooting a terminal.

On Wed, 2006-08-30 at 15:16 -0400, Alexander Hicks wrote:
> Correction - After I reset passwords, I can login as any user on the
> server (not terminal, they're dead a that point).
>
> Sorry. ~ Alex
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> Ok, so I've checked to ensure that TFTP and XINETD are running (they
> are). I've also checked to see that the dhcp.conf file points to files
> that exist.  I couldn't open those files to peek at them, should I be
> able to?  I Downloaded and installed all of the updates for 4.4 and
> rebooted server, but the terminals still fail to boot.
>
> The thing that kills me is that all of the terminals worked before I
> webmin'd in the users and then used this command "rsync -essh -av .
> 192.168.0.254:/home" to move the home folders over.  I don't really
> know how it works, but all of the folders seem to have come over fine
> and all of my users are there.  The passwords for the users are messed
> up, though. If I reset the passwords, I can login as any user on the
> SERVER (not terminal) and the student material appears in their home
> folder.
>
> Would Importing users or the rsync command somehow affect the
> permissions on other files (like vmlinuz.ltsp)?
>
> I'm willing to reload 4.4.1 or 5 (which I tried earlier, but ran into
> the same problem) and put all of the student work in a public folder
> for them to import themselves, if the problem exists with my use of
> the rsync, but rebuilding the 350 users is a pain (although I looks
> like I have to reset their passwords anyway - is there a cool command
> for that?)
>
> Huge thanks for all of the suggestions so far.
> ~Alex
>
> Ps: I'll add a sightseeing trip down the Piscataqua River and out
> around the Isles of Shoals to the Beer and Golf award. (Travel to NH
> not included - sorry)
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