<div dir="ltr">On Wed, Sep 10, 2008 at 5:05 AM, David Van Assche <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:dvanassche@gmail.com" target="_blank">dvanassche@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">
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I've taken a look into the email in question, and can answer some<br>
questions. I in no way am affiliated with canonical, though I do work<br>
within the ed/ubuntu community. Firstly, Scott mentions not using<br>
8.04, clearly you should upgrade as that will solve 50% of your<br>
issues... the other issues are all valid, and I guess the problem is<br>
one of communication between developers and end users. Lets address<br>
the issues seperately:<br>
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- The gnome lingering process problem<br>
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Agreed.. this is a heavy issue that is a pain in the behind, but it is<br>
not LTSP centric... the fault lies with gnome. Right now the<br>
workaround is a watchdog script, which seems to work ok, but is by no<br>
means a fix... This needs to be tackled from the gnome side... Right<br>
now the solution is in monitoring and ending misbehaving processes<br>
through the script or by hand via pkill -u or killall. It makes sense<br>
to clean all processes at least 1 time per day... consider it<br>
maintenance.<br>
</blockquote></div><div><br>I'm actually running the gnome-watchdog package that Philipp Hanselmann wrote. It's not working, he's never tested it on 8.04, so it's hardly his fault. I sent an email asking if I had to do something extra to make it start working and got no answer.<br>
<br>Also, note that, useful as gnome-watchdog is, it's not in any of the official repos. Given that it's essential, someone official should have adopted it and pulled it into the repos.<br><br>Todd<br> </div></div>
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