<html> <head> <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"> </head> <body bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000"> I posted previously about this LTSP terminal boot message in conjunction with incomplete shutdowns on LTSP terminals. But now I see that the two issues are separate. So a fresh post. With Lubuntu 12.04 and LTSP installed (the same thing applies to Edubuntu 12.04), I see a boot message on some terminals connected to some servers, appearing between the boot splash screen and the login screen. The message that appears on a text screen: saned disabled; edit /etc/default/saned Research shows that saned is the network scanner service (daemon) for SANE, which is the Linux scanner driver provision. It is installed by the sane-utils package. I found that on both the LTSP servers I was testing with, sane-utils was installed. (In a terminal window, run "dpkg -s sane-utils" to find out the installation status of the package.) Yet the "saned disabled" message appeared on some terminals and not on others. It turns out that sane can be installed but not run at startup. Whether it is run at startup is controlled by the configuration file /etc/default/saned for the server itself and /opt/ltsp/i386/etc/default/saned for the terminals. The initial contents of saned showing the RUN variable being set to no by default: # Defaults for the saned initscript, from sane-utils # Set to yes to start saned RUN=no # Set to the user saned should run as RUN_AS_USER=saned So on all the servers and terminals here, saned is set not to run by default. It seems that the reason the message appears on some machines and not on others has to do with the responsiveness of the machine and questions of timing with the display of windows. The message is always generated, just not always seen. I found the message somewhat disturbing, hence my digging around to find out what was going on. The message itself is generated by init shell scripts: /etc/init.d/saned for the server itself, and /opt/ltsp/i386//etc/init.d/saned for the terminals. If you don't want to see the message appearing on your terminals, edit /opt/ltsp/i386//etc/init.d/saned and comment out the "echo" command that generates the message. Make the relevant lines look like this: if [ "x$RUN" != "xyes" ] ; then # echo "$NAME disabled; edit /etc/default/saned" exit 0 fi Then update the LTSP image with: sudo ltsp-update-image </body> </html>