Re: Add Storage Space

2007-09-13 Thread Stefano Rivera
Hi Joseph (2007.09.13_06:02:47_+0200) I want to add several hard drives to the /home directory. I have lvm setup on the drives and working. How do I copy the /home directory so that it does not mess with the existing files and maintains appropriate permissions? There are several

Re: Add Storage Space

2007-09-13 Thread Jonathan D. Proulx
On Thu, Sep 13, 2007 at 09:18:12AM +0200, Stefano Rivera wrote: :There are several approaches. cp -a might work if theres's nothing :complex. : :I normally use this: :# cd /home :# find . -xdev -print0 | cpio -0pdvum --sparse /newhome I used to use that as well, but I found cpio doesn't properly

RE: Feisty: x_mode does it works?

2007-09-13 Thread Shawn Iverson
On Wednesday, September 12, 2007 6:26 AM, Oliver Grawert wrote: hi, Am Dienstag, den 11.09.2007, 13:06 -0400 schrieb Shawn Iverson: my colleagues figured out that you could copy a screen %gconf.xml to /etc/skel/.gconf/desktop/gnome/screen/default/0/%gconf.xml thats a pretty ugly way

ltsp commercial support

2007-09-13 Thread peter
Hi. I'm working for an nyc public school and I'm interested in learning more about ltsp. For one thing, my school has lots of money and I have little time so I'm interested in hiring a company or contractor to sell and support ltsp, not doing it myself. I would particularly like to visit a

OpenOffice insert graphics, print and sometimes save=frozen client

2007-09-13 Thread Jim Kronebusch
Well here I have been trying to figure out how to keep Firefox from freezing clients, and now I see OpenOffice is a major culprit as well. The best I can do to repeat the problem for troubleshooting is to create a new Writer document, insert a few graphics from openclipart (5 seems to be

RE: OpenOffice insert graphics, print and sometimes save=frozen client

2007-09-13 Thread Michael
Hi, are you using Edubuntu 7.04 ? If so I have noticed that a lot of people are having a lot of problems with it. I was having problems where the terminals and even the server would just freeze sometimes while the kids were doing their thing, mainly TuxPaint and Gcompris as the kids are all in

Re: OpenOffice insert graphics, print and sometimes save=frozen client

2007-09-13 Thread Todd O'Bryan
I'm seeing the same thing in my lab and it's getting downright annoying. I keep telling my students that the problem is my inability to correctly configure everything, but they're starting to think that Windows is less crash-prone than Linux and I don't want to be responsible for that perception.

RE: OpenOffice insert graphics, print and sometimes save=frozen client

2007-09-13 Thread Jim Kronebusch
On Fri, 14 Sep 2007 01:04:09 +0200, Michael wrote Hi, are you using Edubuntu 7.04 ? If so I have noticed that a lot of people are having a lot of problems with it. I was having problems where the terminals and even the server would just freeze sometimes while the kids were doing their thing,

OpenOffice insert graphics, print and sometimes save=frozen client

2007-09-13 Thread Jim Kronebusch
Well here I have been trying to figure out how to keep Firefox from freezing clients, and now I see OpenOffice is a major culprit as well. The best I can do to repeat the problem for troubleshooting is to create a new Writer document, insert a few graphics from openclipart (5 seems to be

RE: OpenOffice insert graphics, print and sometimes save=frozen client

2007-09-13 Thread Jim Kronebusch
On Fri, 14 Sep 2007 01:04:09 +0200, Michael wrote Hi, are you using Edubuntu 7.04 ? If so I have noticed that a lot of people are having a lot of problems with it. I was having problems where the terminals and even the server would just freeze sometimes while the kids were doing their thing,

Re: OpenOffice insert graphics, print and sometimes save=frozen client

2007-09-13 Thread Scott Balneaves
On Thu, Sep 13, 2007 at 10:16:27PM -0500, Jim Kronebusch wrote: Well here I have been trying to figure out how to keep Firefox from freezing clients, and now I see OpenOffice is a major culprit as well. The best I can do to repeat the problem for troubleshooting is to create a new Writer

Re: OpenOffice insert graphics, print and sometimes save=frozen client

2007-09-13 Thread Scott Balneaves
On Thu, Sep 13, 2007 at 10:11:10PM -0400, Todd O'Bryan wrote: I'm seeing the same thing in my lab and it's getting downright annoying. I keep telling my students that the problem is my inability to correctly configure everything, but they're starting to think that Windows is less crash-prone

Fw: Re: OpenOffice insert graphics, print and sometimes save=frozen client

2007-09-13 Thread Jim Kronebusch
The list wouldn't let my message through with the attachments, so below is at least the text of my reply. To reproduce yourself just create a new Writer document and insert 5 graphics on a single page, then print, things should get funky on you. Scott, I sent you an email personally with