Using nubae fatclient [was Re: which release to use?]

[Sameer Verma]

On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 8:33 PM, David Van Assche <dvanassche at gmail.com> wrote:
> Well, considering fatclient is not 'officially' supported, bug reports
> are a bit irrelevant, though I would welcome any help with getting the
> script working under Hardy.  To be honest I haven't looked at the
> fatclient script in a while, but I'll set up a test environment with
> hardy and go from there. I'll let you know where I get stuck, and if
> you can help, that would be much appreciated. Last time I checked, one
> couldn't even get to the ldm screen if I remember correctly.
>
> kind Regards,
> David Van Assche
> www.nubae.com

Since the fatclient script from nubae is not officially supported, I'm
not sure where I should post questions. I'm going to post them here
and hope I can get some answers. I'm trying out the fatclient script
from http://www.nubae.com/ltsp-linux-terminal-server-project-netbooted-fat-client-for-ubuntu-hardy-and-intrepid
(David's site) and get a bunch of errors. I took a few photos of the
thin client when it boots up (I couldn't capture the log on the thin
client because the system becomes unusable quickly). Photos are at
http://opensource.sfsu.edu/files/ltsp-fatclient-errors.zip

My questions:

1) When running the script as indicated on the site, I get to a point
where it asks for main user with root privileges. I am assuming this
is the user on the server who has root privileges via sudo?

2) What went wrong? (see photos at
http://opensource.sfsu.edu/files/ltsp-fatclient-errors.zip)

Any help would be great. The default thin client works fine, but the
server gets overloaded when using multimedia apps, which is what we'll
be doing this semester (begins next week). If nothing works, I'll fall
back to the default thin client.

Sameer
-- 
Dr. Sameer Verma, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Information Systems
San Francisco State University
San Francisco CA 94132 USA
http://verma.sfsu.edu/
http://opensource.sfsu.edu/