Task for everyone with a Jaunty /LTSP installation

Ace Suares ace at suares.an
Wed Jul 29 03:25:37 BST 2009


Great work David!

Very precise description of your experiences.
That will help the devs to move on.

I hope someone can confirm this. My son went to bed and I can't use the 
Thin Client now :-)

Cheers,
ace

David Groos wrote:
> Just starting and stopping the programs worked fine as mentioned above.  
> John and I played the game a bit and after a few minutes of playing 
> tuxmath the sound went out.  Also, it became non-interactive after a 
> minute more of playing.  I was able to knock it out by the killall 
> command at the same thin client--no need to go to another.  I was able 
> to restart and play it, but sound never came back.  I was able to play 
> the tuxtype, but no sound.
> 
> I logged out then back in, still no sound AND got this message upon 
> logging in (see attachment).  I restarted the thin client and sound 
> returned.  Need any log file? 
> 
> David
> 
> On Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 7:28 PM, Patrick McKnight <pem725 at gmail.com 
> <mailto:pem725 at gmail.com>> wrote:
> 
>     I had the same experience with the same setup.  TuxType and TuxMath
>     both work as expected with no lockup on Jaunty.
> 
>     On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 12:24 AM, Ace Suares<ace at suares.an
>     <mailto:ace at suares.an>> wrote:
>      >
>      > Hi Jordan,
>      >
>      > results:
>      >
>      >
>      >>
>      >> To clarify what you should do, simply start tuxmath/type/paint
>     from the
>      >> menu after installing, and exit. It *should* lock up and not
>     allow you
>      >> to exit (you need to do a 'killall -9 tux<math/type/paint>' from a
>      >> different terminal to get it to go away without simply turning
>     off the
>      >> client).
>      >
>      > Tuxmath and tuxtyping both started, with sound and everything
>     working,
>      > and when I exited, it worked fine, no problems, no lockup.
>      >
>      > Of course only one user here.
>      >
>      > Hope that helps,
>      >
>      >
>      > cat /etc/lsb-release
>      > DISTRIB_ID=Ubuntu
>      > DISTRIB_RELEASE=9.04
>      > DISTRIB_CODENAME=jaunty
>      > DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION="Ubuntu 9.04"
>      >
>      > ace
>      >
>      >
>      >>
>      >> I also updated the bug with strace info, so check it out if
>     you're a dev
>      >> willing to spend a bit of time helping to troubleshoot. I got
>     straces
>      >> for each program when it locks up. Hopefully that info is of
>     some use.
>      >>
>      >> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/tuxpaint/+bug/269082
>      >>
>      >> Sincerely,
>      >> Jordan
>      >>
>      >>
>      >>
>      >> Ace Suares wrote:
>      >>> Hi,
>      >>>
>      >>> on IRC today, Lns asked:
>      >>>
>      >>> Does anyone here have an Ubuntu Jaunty LTSP setup they can test
>      >>> tux4kids apps on with sound? We need to figure out whether the
>     issues
>      >>> in
>     https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/tuxpaint/+bug/269082 are
>      >>> still present in Jaunty...it would be much appreciated!!
>      >>>
>      >>> So, if you have that setup, and a little time on your hands, please
>      >>> send us your test results!
>      >>>
>      >>> Cheers,
>      >>>
>      >>> ace
>      >>>
>      >>>
>      >>
>      >>
>      >
>      >
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