Anyone get Fedora 16 chroot working?

[Jeff Siddall]

I mucked with the /etc/sysconfig/ltspdist to allow F16 then ran
ltsp-build-client.

The good news is the client appeared to build (got success message at
the end despite some warnings along the way).

The bad news is that the chroot wasn't really functional.

I started by moving it to a suitable place (/opt/ltsp/i386-f16) and ran
ltsp-update-kernels but no joy.

First it complained about no pxelinux.0. Sure enough, nothing in the
tftp directory. So I just copied the pxelinux* files from the EL6
chroot i386 directory and that got things further.

The next problem was a kernel panic due to dracut not knowing what to do
with "root=dhcp". Hmmmmm... so I ran chroot in /opt/ltsp/i386-f16 and
then ran ltsp-rewrap-latest-kernel and got an error about missing dhclient.

So I checked and sure enough no dhclient. That can't be right. So I
installed it and re-ran ltsp-rewrap-latest-kernel. This time I only got
some errors about "grep: /proc/modules: No such file or directory".
Fair enough.

So I re-ran ltsp-update-kernels but still no joy. This time the boot
process hung for about 20 seconds and returned with "dracut Warning:
unable to process initqueue" and then dropped into a shell.

I am doing all this to try to get a working eGalax touchscreen which is
borked in EL6 but worked fine in Fedora as far back as version 14.
Sigh. Anyone have any tips for getting a F16 client (or an eGalax
touchscreen) working on a EL6 server?

Thanks,

Jeff

[Burke Almquist]

My understanding was that LTSP wouldn't work without major changes on Fedora 15 and 16 due to some change in the graphics system.
F17 might be an option though, according to what Warren said last year.
https://fedorahosted.org/k12linux/
https://lwn.net/Articles/465796/

I mucked with the /etc/sysconfig/ltspdist to allow F16 then ran ltsp-build-client.
The good news is the client appeared to build (got success message at the end despite some warnings along the way).
The bad news is that the chroot wasn't really functional.
I started by moving it to a suitable place (/opt/ltsp/i386-f16) and ran ltsp-update-kernels but no joy.
First it complained about no pxelinux.0. Sure enough, nothing in the tftp directory. So I just copied the pxelinux* files from the EL6 chroot i386 directory and that got things further.
The next problem was a kernel panic due to dracut not knowing what to do with "root=dhcp". Hmmmmm... so I ran chroot in /opt/ltsp/i386-f16 and then ran ltsp-rewrap-latest-kernel and got an error about missing dhclient.
So I checked and sure enough no dhclient. That can't be right. So I installed it and re-ran ltsp-rewrap-latest-kernel. This time I only got some errors about "grep: /proc/modules: No such file or directory". Fair enough.
So I re-ran ltsp-update-kernels but still no joy. This time the boot process hung for about 20 seconds and returned with "dracut Warning: unable to process initqueue" and then dropped into a shell.
I am doing all this to try to get a working eGalax touchscreen which is borked in EL6 but worked fine in Fedora as far back as version 14. Sigh. Anyone have any tips for getting a F16 client (or an eGalax touchscreen) working on a EL6 server?
Thanks,
Jeff
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[Barry Cisna]

Jeff,

It appears others have had quite a few probs getting the eGalaxTouch to
work on various distros of Linux. Here is a good tutorial of how someone
got the TouchScreen to work under Ubuntu. There are several steps of
getting the Touch Screen to actually work but did end up working.It is
quite a bit of leg work but may be worth a try under EL6/SL6 as well.

I have been wanting to get a couple touch screens working under SL6 as
well but haven't had time to monkey with this yet. I would have guessed
these can be very quirky to actually get to work regardless of
make/model.

Link:


http://samiux.blogspot.com/2010/11/howto-ubuntu-1010-on-gigabyte-touchnote.html



Take Care,
Barry