Cannot get X to start on some clients

[Brad Thomas]

Great suggestion.  I'll give that a go tomorrow morning.  Sound was the 
next thing I was gonna work on, so this will *hopefully* knock out 2 
birds with 1 stone.  Thanks!

Oliver Grawert wrote:
> 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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