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On 5/5/06, John Blinka <jblinka@××××××.com> wrote: |
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> Hi, |
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> I help out with a local school using an ltsp server to run 50-60 ancient |
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> pentium boxes as terminals. I've run gentoo and ltsp on this server for |
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> almost |
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> a year without problems. However, a few weeks ago there had been a sudden |
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> power outage (and no ups) which took the server and terminals down. |
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> Ever since that event, we've not been able to get the terminals to boot. |
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> We get as far as this message on the terminals: |
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> Boot from (N)etwork or from (L)ocal? N |
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> Probing...[3C5x9]3C5x9 board on ISA at 0x300 - 10baseT |
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> Ethernet address: 00:A0:24:98:14:55 |
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> Searching for Server (DHCP)... |
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> ............ No Server found |
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> The server is up and running. I can log into it remotely via |
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> ssh or VNC and everything seems to be operating normally. |
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> A dhcp daemon is running, and, in fact is supplying ip addresses |
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> to a bunch of windows boxes on the school network. |
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> Any suggestions on how to debug this are welcome! |
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How are the boxes connected to the network? A hub? A switch? Router |
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maybe? Try using the network spot (where one of the failing boxes is |
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connected) with a notebook or another machine that you know has no |
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problems. Also check the cables and other network devices between the |
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boxes and the DHCP server. I doubt a software failure would get all |
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your boxes down at the same time. |
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So, its my bet, a physical problem, but I'm not an expert. |
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