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On 03/18/2012 04:31 PM, Pandu Poluan wrote: |
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> On Mar 19, 2012 5:31 AM, "walt" <w41ter@×××××.com |
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> <mailto:w41ter@×××××.com>> wrote: |
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>> On 03/18/2012 11:52 AM, walt wrote: |
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>>> The other nifty hint was to add "panic=10" as a kernel parameter |
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>>> in grub.conf (menu.lst) so that your remote system will reboot in |
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>>> 10 seconds if the kernel panics during boot. That will let you |
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>>> test (remotely) if a kernel parameter like "noinitrd" breaks your |
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>>> machine. |
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>> Heh. I learn a lot from reading my posts -- when I figure out why |
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>> my first reply was wrong :p |
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>> Now that I've thought about it, I assume you have only ssh access |
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>> to your remote machine, so you can't see the grub boot prompt, |
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>> right? |
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>> Maybe the remote machine doesn't even pause at the boot prompt |
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>> because no one is there to watch it? I'm curious how remote |
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>> servers work in real life because in my next life I wanna come back |
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>> as a sysadmin :) |
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> When I started administering remote servers, Citrix's XenServer is |
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> Good Enough™ to deploy in production, so now it's the first thing I |
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> install on a virgin box, even if said virgin box will host only one |
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> VM. |
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> This provides me with a usable Virtual Console through which I can |
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> watch the boot process. |
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Bless you Pandu, you just answered a question I didn't ask (yet :) |
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My workplace recently began providing us (peons) access to its Holy |
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Intranet even when we are (shamefully) not actually in the workplace. |
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When I use firefox to access their intranet I have no problems: I |
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see a small popup dialog box that announces that Citrix is allowing |
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me to see a window containing an instance of M$ Internet Explorer, |
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which is displaying the intranet web page I clicked on in firefox, |
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(which is running on my gentoo desktop, of course). |
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I can see that this whole process starts a java vm running in the |
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background, so I suppose that the Citrix app (whatever it is) is |
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a java applet started by my firefox browser. |
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But, when I try to access the same intranet web page with google |
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chrome, it hangs forever instead of starting the Citrix app. |
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(Other java-powered websites work normally with google chrome.) |
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Does any/all of this suggest that their web servers are running the |
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same Citrix XenServer you speak of? |
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