Comment 125 for bug 959037

I thought I was done with this kind of issue, but I may be back for more.

It turns out that the only LTSP client that boots normally is the one that I was doing all of the above troubleshooting on. Others that I have tried in my little 2-PC setup all stop at a blank/black screen after successfully getting to the Lubuntu splash screen.

I have now set up forwarding of the client syslog messages to the server, and the log always ends with a string of ntpd items, the last of which is "ntpd[1314]: Listening on routing socket on fd #24 for interface updates"

I found this other Ubuntu Precise bug (#999725) https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ntp/+bug/999725 which reports that ntp is being started before DNS resolution is available. A quick scan of the initial comments shows that the discussion revolves around network-manager's handling of network configuration. The bug is currently marked Expired due to inactivity.

Bug #999725 seems to involve some of the same issues as the ones dealt with here.

Comments? Troubleshooting? Workarounds?