[X2Go-Dev] Automating the installation of the X2Go-TCE

Mike Gabriel mike.gabriel at das-netzwerkteam.de
Thu Aug 29 16:36:45 CEST 2013


Hi Arnold,

On Sa 24 Aug 2013 14:00:30 CEST Arnold Krille wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I spent most of yesterdays working hours automating the setup of a  
> TCE-nfs+tftp server. We use Chef (www.opscode.com) for that. And I  
> will most likely publish the cookbook/recipe soon. The main reason I  
> started this is that we want to automate more and more of the setup.  
> And thus ease setting up our customers systems.
>
> Two problems I encountered:
>
> 1) The x2gothinclient_create skript assumes interactive usage and  
> has no option of running non-interactive. I adopted this by removing  
> the single "read" (so it doesn't anymore ask for confirmation and by  
> trying to set the locale without running "dpkg-reconfigure locales".  
> So that part worked.
>
> 2) I got the client-machines (tested with a virtual machine and  
> checked with an atom-based netbook) to boot of the pxe+tftp+nfs as  
> wanted and am presented with x2goclient. But on the way there, the  
> mouse and keyboard are lost and motivation on friday just before the  
> weekend got a little low-point. Any tips where to look at what  
> happened? Keyboard and mouse seem to be gone for good, I could  
> neither move the pointer nor enter anything in x2goclient. Also I  
> couldn't do Ctrl+Alt+F1 to switch to a text-console.
>
> I also copied the x2gothinclient_shell-skript to create an  
> x2gothinclient_execute which takes arguments and just executes these  
> inside the tce-chroot instead of running an interactive bash. I  
> don't know whether that is something I should prepare a patch for  
> x2go for? It sure is very great for example for installing the  
> kernel inside the chroot from the chef-recipe. And probably for  
> other stuff I didn't yet need.

Nearly forgot to comment on this!

If there is anything useful for upstream X2Go component  
x2gothinclient, please start sending patches to X2Go BTS [1].

Thanks,
Mike

[1] http://wiki.x2go.org/doku.php/wiki:bugs


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