Can't login from thin clients.

[Matt Zimmerman]

On Fri, Aug 26, 2005 at 11:57:07AM +0200, Oliver Grawert wrote:
> hi,
> On Fr, 2005-08-26 at 10:39 +0100, Daniel Carrera wrote:
> > Reiner Schmid wrote:
> > 
> > >> /Does anyone have experience with this problem?
> > > 
> > > /I took "GNOME" under "session" at the login screen.
> > > And I was able to log in. Perhaps this could help you?
> > 
> > No. Thank you for trying though. But the problem is more fundamental 
> > than that. The computer thinks that it's a wrong log in. I can't imagine 
> > why...
> to make it easier to track it down, enable the root account * in your
> chroot, then you are able to login at the console on your client and
> read /var/log/ldm.log, it should give you a hint whats wrong
> 
> ciao
> 	oli
> 
> * just run sudo chroot /opt/ltsp/i386 and then just set a root password
> with passwd (disable it with passwd -l later again)

Another good debugging technique is to create/edit /etc/lts.conf and set
SCREEN_07=shell for that client.  Then you will get a shell on vc 7 rather
than X.

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 - mdz