How to do LTSP on Ubuntu 16.04 with Mate Desktop?

Support & Help Requests
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Need help for setup of LTSP on ubuntu 16.04 to connect thinpc to the server.

So can anyone help in this regards.

We have installed Ubuntu 16.04 lts server and now we want to configure everything for thinpc which are i386 based systems with 256 MB RAM.

So will this arrange of U 16.04 lts svr and U Mate Dsktop will works for ThinPC?

if not then what should we do? and what will be steps?

Urgent help will be appreciated.

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I used to use PNP LTSP with Ubuntu 14.04. However, when Ubuntu went to 16.04, PNP LTSP broke. The last time I tried to install it (and failed) in UM 16.04, was 6 months ago.

You are welcome to try again. It may have been fixed

Here is the link:

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/UbuntuLTSP/ltsp-pnp

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Thanks Steve

Regards,

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Steve

I did all possible thing, I installed amd64 and i386 for both type of clients.

LTSP installed but my clients are not getting the GUI (ubuntu-mate desktop) screen on their screen.

I tried searching every possible solution on the internet, but something I am not doing right or something is broken.

Can you please tell me what should i provide you to help me.

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Your problem is precisely the same as I experienced. You have probably not done anything wrong. This is exactly how it stopped working for me. It is broken in 16.04. But, worse still, whereas it used to work in 14.04, it has also stopped working in there following "updates" from Ubuntu.

Your only option would be to go on to the LTSP IRC and try and find one of the developers of pnp LTSP on there. But, I went on and left a request for help that just never got answered. So I gave up.

I am sorry, but I spent many uncountable hours trying to fix my LTSP installation before finally giving up and I just can't bring myself to delve into yours because the outcome will almost certainly be the same brick wall. This is not your fault and you have my sympathies. Please find the link to the LTSP IRC below and good luck with it.

http://www.ltsp.org/irc/

Finally, please see below for the instructions I wrote on here some time ago, when PNP LTSP was working, for how I did it and check it against what you did.

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Thanks Steve

My Scenerio is this.

I have server with 2 NIC card,

I don’t want server to be DHCP server (so NO dnsmasq) is required (because router act for it.

Then I am having 64 GB of RAM on Server

My all Clients are based on i386

All is working fine but with OLD server (where Ubuntu 10.04 is installed)

but with 16.04 its not working.

But anyway thank you for your time for email and investigating this matter.

Good Luck to Community.

Regards,

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As with most of you, I also spent hours trying to figure this out and search google.

This seemed to fix my issue with 16.04, found it at https://sourceforge.net/p/ltsp/mailman/message/32729497/

Edit:
/etc/ltsp/update-kernels.conf

Uncomment:
IPAPPEND=3

Then run:
/usr/share/ltsp/update-kernels

Finally run LTSP image > update from the LTSP Manager or command line by:
ltsp-update-image --cleanup

Now boots! Hope this helps!

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There has since been released a version of LTSP called “PNP LTSP” via “LTSP-Manager”. It works like a charm and can be found here:

http://wiki.ltsp.org/wiki/Ltsp-manager

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I installed using this method using Ubuntu MATE 16.04 with the PNP LTSP via LTSP-Manager and it would stop at a prompt stating it could not load busy box on the terminal side. When I uncommented the “IPAPPEND=3” in the update-kernels.conf file and rebuilt the image, I now get the GUI.

Thanks!