Lucid Alternate Alpha3 AMD64, wrong line in inetd.conf for i386 chroot after installation

[Asmo Koskinen]

Lucid Alternate Alpha3 AMD64 is OK to install, but after installation there is wrong line in inetd.conf file for i386 chroot.

I removed /opt/ltsp/amd64 after installation and build new one - /opt/ltsp/i386.

Thin client did not boot because of wrong image.

cat /var/log/daemon.log | grep amd64

Feb 27 12:38:43 cluster1 nbd_server[1424]: connect from 192.168.1.200, assigned file is /opt/ltsp/images/amd64.img
Feb 27 12:38:43 cluster1 nbd_server[1424]: Could not open exported file /opt/ltsp/images/amd64.img: No such file or directory

When I changed manually one line in inetd.conf, thin client booted just fine.

cat /etc/inetd.conf

#:OTHER: Other services

9571 stream tcp nowait nobody /usr/sbin/tcpd /usr/sbin/ldminfod
9572 stream tcp nowait nobody /usr/sbin/tcpd /usr/sbin/nbdswapd
2000 stream tcp nowait nobody /usr/sbin/tcpd /usr/sbin/nbdrootd /opt/ltsp/images/i386.img

Best Regads Asmo Koskinen.

[Asmo Koskinen (asmok)]

You know, for someone who is new to LTSP this is really mess. For a heavy server you need AMD64, but also i386 chroot.

Why we do not have i386 chroot as a default option when performing installation from Alternate AMD64 CD?

Best Regards Asmo Koskinen.

[Stéphane Graber (stgraber)]

On Sat, 2010-02-27 at 11:56 +0000, Asmo Koskinen wrote:
> You know, for someone who is new to LTSP this is really mess. For a heavy server you need AMD64, but also i386 chroot.
>
> Why we do not have i386 chroot as a default option when performing
> installation from Alternate AMD64 CD?
>
> Best Regards Asmo Koskinen.
>

That's because these CDs must be self-contained (as in, not require
access to the internet) and so it's impossible to get the i386 packages
from there.

It's a known issue for which we can't do much (at least for Lucid), the
long term plan was to offer an option to create a i386 chroot using
internet (but that'd be opt-in, not the default).

--
Stéphane Graber
Ubuntu developer
http://www.ubuntu.com

[beetlebolt (beetlebolt)]

After rebuilding my i386 image this happened to me too. Asmo's post fixed it for me. Any suggestions how to improve my image re-build script so I don't have to edit the /etc/inetd.conf file also? This was a real gotcha for me...

[Alkis Georgopoulos (alkisg)]

Fixed in LTSP 5.3. NBD exports are now declared in /etc/nbd-server/conf.d used of inetd.conf.