Freeze on server logout

[Paul McNett]

Ok, so I guess I should go search the known bugs and add one if it isn't 
there yet. Thanks for confirming the problem!


Luis Montes wrote:
> 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
>>

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