Cannot get X to start on some clients

[Oliver Grawert]

hi,
Am Montag, den 28.08.2006, 18:36 +0100 schrieb Gavin McCullagh:
> On Mon, 28 Aug 2006, Brad Thomas wrote:
> 
> > I have setup a lab for the school here running an Edubuntu server.  My 
> > clients are having problems though.  I cannot get them to load X at 
> > times.  This is what happens:
> > 1. I will boot one of my clients and it'll load up fine.
> > 2. I then boot a second client.  I get the following after boot in a 
> > terminal window (no GUI login screen):
> > ----------------------------
> > Ubuntu 6.06 LTS ltsp tty1
> > ltsp login:
> > ----------------------------
> 
> Have you tried hitting <ctrl><alt><F7> when you see this screen?  I have
> yet to understand this behaviour myself but ferquently thin clients seem to
> boot to the text terminal instead of showing the X output (even though X is
> started).
> 
> Actually, if someone knows the answer to this and how to fix it I'd be
> mightily interested.
i only recently heard about that myself, there seems to be a timing
issue between ldm (the login manager) and usplash (the splashscreen app
that switches to console 1 if it doesnt get killed early enough and
doesnt detect GDM) i didnt see that myself in any tests because i have
set SOUND=True in all my lts.conf files ... this delays the startup of
the login manager for half a second or so, exactly the time it needs for
usplash to be shut down ... so an easy workaround is to set SOUND=True
in an /opt/ltsp/i386/etc/lts.conf file you create, even if you dont have
sound support on the hardware (esd will fail gracefully if it cant
connect to a sound device)

i'll try to find a fix soon and to push it to dapper-updates ...

ciao
	oli

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