Hi,
in contrast to thinStation the openthinclient system is based on NFS-mounted
filesystems, so the cause of this very slow booting could be a low bandwidth
connection to the otc server or a congested network. Even with a perfect
network connection it coud take a few minutes to boot a 400Mhz Geode based
device to the login screen. The long wait for the desktop may be due to low
ram. I've experienced similar behaviour with very old PCs - until I upgraded
ram. Have a look at the output of 'top' on the otc clients console. Perhaps
this will give you some insight what's going on.
Regards
Christoph
From: Markus Frenzel [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Thursday, August 16, 2012 1:13 PM
To: '[email protected]'
Subject: [openthinclient-user] Boot delay: Building TCOS base config
Hello!
I’m new to openthinclient… I’ve played around with thinstation for about a
couple of months and ended up frustrated with some weird problems. Then I’ve
discovered openthinclient… and I’m deeply impressed about all the build-in
things and the GUI. Good job!
But also I’ve got a few problems and now I’m going to ask you if this a minor
problems which can be solved with the help of the community.
Technical Background: we’ve got 50+ winterms (Wyse 3150SE) which are old but
they are still running so we try to get them up and running again with
openthinclient. 128MB RAM and 256MB flash drive (build-in) aren’t tech specs I
like to have… but this is my equipment.
First problem: The winterm boots up… shows the openthinclient boot splash…
screen switches to black… then some messages are displayed. Last line says:
Building TCOS base config… and this is the point where I’m able to grab a cup
of coffee… This message is displayed nearly forever. :-)
Second problem: After a couple of minutes (> 5 min.) the Login Screen shows up…
I authenticate via the user account I’ve created in the openthinclient Manager…
and go to grab another cup of coffee… and another one… and another one… 20
minutes later the Desktop is displayed.
What we intend to do is: give our users the possibility to start the citrix
pnagent to connect to our Xenapp 6.5 Serverfarm where the applications for our
users are published. There is no need of any browser or desktop-session…
Looking forward for your replies. Any help would be appreciated.
Regards
Markus Frenzel
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