ltsp

[Stéphane Graber]

On Tue, 2010-03-02 at 12:59 +0100, rz wrote:
> Hi, My name is Roland, I am a teacher at a German school and we power 
> our computing rooms with
> Ubuntu 8.04 with an excellently running LTSP.
> We built out of the box a thinclient (default), a kiosk version (even 
> with google chrome instead of firefox) and a fatclient running blender. 
> We named our projekt "gymbuntu" (GYMnasium uBUNTU) (Gymnasium is the 
> German word for highschool.)
> 
> While trying Ubuntu 10.04_alternate LTSP-Server  alpha2 I noticed, that 
> the thinclient is built, but does not start
> on the thinclients. It loads the vmlinuz, prints a line of dots and stops.
> 
> When trying to built an image with the --kiosk option (or any other 
> "fat" version) ltsp-build-image reports an
> error, telling gdm.conf is not found.
> 
> As far as I can see, gdm has been changed, not using gdm.conf any more
> (and this seems to has happened at 9.10 or even 9.04 already)
> but the ltsp-build-image script has not been updated.
> 
> I am not good enough to rewrite this ltsp-build-image - script, but I am 
> willing to test new written scripts.
> I would be glad to help making Ubuntu even better!
> 
> Greetings from Germany
> Roland
> 
> PS:

Can you report the bug here:
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ltsp/+filebug ?

That's the easiest so the LTSP team gets contacted and can have a look
at it.

Alpha-2 wasn't exactly good for LTSP, alpha-3 was better (at least it's
supposed to boot but may fail at login).


-- 
Stéphane Graber
Ubuntu developer
http://www.ubuntu.com
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