Freeze on server logout

Luis Montes monteslu at cox.net
Tue Aug 21 05:19:11 BST 2007


Same here. Two different edubuntu ltsp servers. One dual xeon and one 
Pentium D.
Though I'm not in front of the boxes right now, I think 
ctrl-alt-backspace worked to kill the session.

Luis

Todd O'Bryan wrote:
> I can confirm this on an AMD64 install with Ubuntu running the latest
> LTSP packages.
>
> On Mon, 2007-08-20 at 15:31 -0700, Paul McNett wrote:
>   
>> Hi,
>>
>> This is my first post, and I've only been lurking for a day. I've
>> recently set up a small computer lab for my wife who's a fourth-grade
>> teacher. The server is a P4/3.4 GHz box with 1GB of RAM and a 250GB SATA
>> disk. The 6 workstations vary from Celeron 800 with 768MB to P4 with
>> 1GB. The workstations are all diskless, and the system is working very
>> well so far.
>>
>> Except for one thing. About once every 2-3 logins on the server box
>> itself, when the user chooses Quit|Log Out, the screen will freeze and
>> nothing happens except the mouse cursor still responds. But clicking
>> anywhere, pressing Alt+Tab, etc. does nothing. It doesn't appear to
>> matter who the login is. Could be a student, could be the admin.
>>
>> I can do a Ctrl+Alt+F1, and login to the TTY, and then sudo -s and
>> killall gdm, which takes down the xserver at which point I can start it
>> again manually, but obviously this isn't ideal.
>>
>> I've searched around for clues, but have come up empty so far. This is
>> edubuntu 7.04 fully updated. It is important for us to get the server's
>> graphical login/logout working reliably as my wife is using it as her
>> workstation, plus we want an occasional student to be able to log on as
>> well.
>>
>> Anyway, any clues on the logout freeze would be welcome!
>> Paul
>>
>> -- 
>> pkm ~ http://paulmcnett.com
>>
>>
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