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Users / What should my MD's (and core's) /etc/apt/sources.list have in it?

« on: November 26, 2008, 06:35:11 am »

Here's my core's
deb file:/usr/pluto/deb-cache/ ./ 
deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ gutsy  main restricted multiverse universe
deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ gutsy-security  main restricted multiverse universe
deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ gutsy-updates  main restricted multiverse universe
deb http://linuxmce.com/ubuntu/ ./ 
deb http://deb.linuxmce.com/ubuntu/ replacements_ubuntu  main
deb http://deb.linuxmce.com/ubuntu/ replacements_debian  main
deb http://deb.linuxmce.com/ubuntu/ 20dev_ubuntu  main

none of the linuxmce.com repositories can be found, ever.  What should I do?  Where should these point?

Here's my MD's

deb file:/usr/pluto/deb-cache/ sarge  main
deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ gutsy  main restricted multiverse universe
deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ gutsy-security  main restricted multiverse universe
deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ gutsy-updates  main restricted multiverse universe
deb http://linuxmce.com/ubuntu/ ./ 
deb http://deb.linuxmce.com/ubuntu/ replacements_debian  main
deb http://deb.plutohome.com/debian/ sarge  main non-free contrib
deb http://deb.plutohome.com/debian/ 20dev_debian  main


Again the deb.plutohome.com repos do not work ever.  What should I do?  Should I just assume the only source of pluto/linuxmce packages is from the deb-cache?

thanks in advance
Andrew

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Installation issues / MD stuck at KDE login

« on: August 05, 2008, 04:23:10 am »

My diskless MD was working ok until I clicked on KDE Desktop in the lmce UI.  It took me to a kde login screen but I do not have credentials for the md.  I tried to ssh to the MD from the core, but my ssh keys are hosed up so I cannot get in without a password there either.

Once you go to the KDE desktop, how do you get back to the lmce UI?  My core is a hybrid and it works quite differently b/c when I click on kde desktop I go straight to an already running kde desktop.

BTW, if I reboot the MD, it just goes back to the KDE login.  Any suggestions? 

Thanks in advance
Andrew

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Installation issues / Fiire Station "Diskless Setup failed"

« on: July 05, 2008, 10:10:56 pm »

OK, so I got my wall mount fiire station and reinstalled my core  - this time from cds to preserve some disk partitions containing media.  Clean install.  Then I put the 3 files from fiire in /usr/pluto/install/via and then pxe booted the fiire station.  It didn't complete the boot.  I'm pretty sure it loaded the kernel over tftp b/c you see the message "Loading default/vmlinuz.......", "Loading initramfs....." followed by a bunch of things including what looks like network setup - gives the device the following permanent address etc.  192.168.80.2.

I checked in the admin website and the media director shows up and even has two kernels both with a via/xxx path - one is debian and the other is kubuntu.  I tried setting it to use ubunutu - hoping that would mean kubuntu - but still same results.

Help, please
How do I even debug this?  PXE booting should be pretty easy to get a base os running.

Thanks
Andrew

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Installation issues / Any one running MCE Core with Webmin or NXServer?

« on: June 03, 2008, 05:36:44 pm »

I've had my hybrid core get all messed up twice  - see http://forum.linuxmce.org/index.php?topic=5341.msg31259#msg31259

Does anyone know if there's a problem with running NXServer?  I know the MCE Launcher does NOT work from a remote NX session and neither does the cd installer.  Both times I hosed up my core I tried running the launcher remotely.

How bout webmin?  The only thing I can think of is that I reconfigured samba to appear on my workgroup - but I doubt that would cause this kind of problem.  Any suggestions before I reinstall and cause yet another fu?

thanks in advance
Andrew

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Installation issues / Diskless setup

« on: May 28, 2008, 05:26:13 pm »

I saw this in the pxelinux.tmpl "/usr/pluto/diskless/%MOON_ID%"

1) I do not have anything in the /usr/pluto/diskless directory.  Should I?  What should it be?

2) the Fiire guys told me to put some custom archives in /usr/pluto/install/via.  How do I ensure these archives are used when my MD pxe boots?  What am I missing?

thanks in advance
Andrew

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Installation issues / Launch Manager gets hosed after a couple reboots hours after fresh install

« on: May 28, 2008, 04:14:49 pm »

I installed kubuntu 7.10 and only added webmin and NXServer.  Then I installed the 7.10 RC2 via CDs as a core/hybrid.  I tried to pxe boot a MD but it failed at the diskless script.  I used the admin website to create a group for my MD to hopefully use a different boot image which I got from the fiire guys for my via based machine.

Before I could try to re-PXE-boot my MD, the core was pooched and check out the attachment to see all the missing buttons.  I manually ran several appropriately named scripts to try to get the server back and running. I pretty much tried every script with the word "start" in /usr/bin/pluto.

Any idea what happened?  Any idea how to restore the launcher (without reinstalling ;-)?

p.s. the attachment option doesn't work - says "Cannot access attachments upload path!"

Anyway, here's the attachment

thanks in advance
Andrew