Re: [Ltsp-discuss] very slow

2009-04-06 Thread Alkis Georgopoulos
Στις 06-04-2009, ημέρα Δευ, και ώρα 08:04 +0200, ο/η Werner Winter έγραψε: What about your network settings ? NICs 100MB, switch 1GB But I think the problem is insufficient ram. The terminals only have 32, 64 or 128MB. -- Werner My 450 MHz Celerons with 64 Mb RAM only need 1

[Ltsp-discuss] Disable X dontzap

2009-04-29 Thread Alkis Georgopoulos
Just in case someone needs the same thing, to re-enable the Alt+Ctrl +Backspace shortcut in Jaunty I created /opt/ltsp/i386/usr/share/ltsp/screen-session.d/XS96-disable-dontzap with the following line as contents: X_ARGS=$X_ARGS -retro It would be nice to have an lts.conf option for that...

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Disable X dontzap

2009-04-29 Thread Alkis Georgopoulos
Στις 29-04-2009, ημέρα Τετ, και ώρα 13:04 -0700, ο/η Jordan Erickson έγραψε: Alkis, X_ARGS, IIRC, *is* an lts.conf option. Yeah, Lns you made my day :) X_ARGS=-retro in lts.conf works fine :) -- Register Now Save for

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Xorg-problem

2009-05-27 Thread Alkis Georgopoulos
Στις 27-05-2009, ημέρα Τετ, και ώρα 04:56 -0700, ο/η sm8ps-ltsp...@yahoo.com έγραψε: My question is how to over-ride the automatic Xorg configuration that is responsible for the erroneous 68.0 - 61.0 entry. Thanks for any suggestions! AFAIK, you need to set both X_HORZSYNC and X_VERTREFRESH in

[Ltsp-discuss] ltsp-server-pnp: using the new dnsmasq as a proxy dhcp server

2009-06-08 Thread Alkis Georgopoulos
thoughts on how to improve automatic configuration (the algorithm is described in the README file), any beta testing, packaging hints or whatever other feedback you think is needed. Kind regards, Alkis Georgopoulos

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] ltsp-server-pnp: using the new dnsmasq as a proxy dhcp server

2009-06-08 Thread Alkis Georgopoulos
Στις 08-06-2009, ημέρα Δευ, και ώρα 18:28 +0300, ο/η Alkis Georgopoulos έγραψε: Also notice that while it works fine with PXE clients, and with recent gPXE clients, it *does not work* with older Etherboot clients (without flashing them with gPXE), because they don't implement the PXE proxy

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] ltsp-server-pnp: using the new dnsmasq as a proxy dhcp server

2009-06-09 Thread Alkis Georgopoulos
Στις 09-06-2009, ημέρα Τρι, και ώρα 08:18 +0300, ο/η Asmo Koskinen έγραψε: Asmo Koskinen kirjoitti: I changed little these lines, client boots very well. r...@ubuntu-ltsp5:~# cat /etc/dnsmasq.d/ltsp-server-pnp.conf [--] # This range is for the public interface, where dnsmasq functions

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] ltsp-server-pnp: using the new dnsmasq as a proxy dhcp server

2009-06-09 Thread Alkis Georgopoulos
Στις 09-06-2009, ημέρα Τρι, και ώρα 13:26 +0300, ο/η Asmo Koskinen έγραψε: Asmo Koskinen kirjoitti: Script sees my network right, but then this. It does not create new ... Hi Asmo, I've uploaded a heavily improved version in my PPA (https://launchpad.net/~ts.sch.gr/+archive/ppa) with a

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Ubuntu 9.04 Alternate Cd install does not work

2009-06-25 Thread Alkis Georgopoulos
Στις 25-06-2009, ημέρα Πεμ, και ώρα 06:15 -0500, ο/η Bob Wooden έγραψε: My motherboard has an onboard 10/100/1000 LAN and it connects to the internet. My LTSP is on a second 10/100 card (RTL8139, I think?) for the terminals. (Just like my old 8.04, that was working.) Why do you use the slow

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Ubuntu 9.04 Alternate Cd install does not work

2009-06-26 Thread Alkis Georgopoulos
Στις 26-06-2009, ημέρα Παρ, και ώρα 06:29 -0500, ο/η Bob Wooden έγραψε: Yes, I agree, but I am having problems and prefer to solve this problem before making any changes to (like upgrading) second nic. As my existing system worked fine with 8.04.2, why does it not work with jaunty? I wondered

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Ubuntu 9.04 Alternate Cd install does not work

2009-06-26 Thread Alkis Georgopoulos
The alternate cd should have put a static IP for eth1 in your /etc/network/interfaces file, but it didn't. Try with the following default contents in the interfaces file: # This file describes the network interfaces available on your system # and how to activate them. For more information, see

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Ubuntu 9.04 Alternate Cd install does not work

2009-06-28 Thread Alkis Georgopoulos
Στις 28-06-2009, ημέρα Κυρ, και ώρα 11:12 -0500, ο/η Bob Wooden έγραψε: sudo invoke-rc.d dhcp3-server stop This command reports fail and LOCKS the computer display up to the point that I cannot keystroke (ctrl-alt-backspace, ctrl-alt-del, nor any magic keys) to reset or restart the

[Ltsp-discuss] Using dnsmasq as a proxy DHCP server

2009-06-29 Thread Alkis Georgopoulos
I've heard people asking for a method to make LTSP clients boot when the DHCP server is on a different machine with no access to it; I've just put up a wiki page for this scenario: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/UbuntuLTSP/ProxyDHCP A proxy DHCP server is defined by the PXE specification as a

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] youtube with mplayer plugin -- sound works!

2009-07-09 Thread Alkis Georgopoulos
Στις 07-07-2009, ημέρα Τρι, και ώρα 21:13 -0400, ο/η Rob Owens έγραψε: Install the greasemonkey extension for firefox/iceweasel, and then install the HQTube script. http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/24999 Funny thing, I had just thought about this possibility and I was surfing the Internet

[Ltsp-discuss] Broadcasting video to all TCs by modifying gstreamer default output

2009-07-22 Thread Alkis Georgopoulos
Στις 20-07-2009, ημέρα Δευ, και ώρα 11:49 -0700, ο/η Charles Paul έγραψε: I wrestled with the problem this morning, and here is the script I came up with for notify-send on Debian 5 LTSP: ... Hope this is of use to other people! Thank you Paul, this was enlightening! :) I constructed a

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] CPU usage of xorg and ssh, Java programs slow

2009-08-12 Thread Alkis Georgopoulos
Στις 12-08-2009, ημέρα Τετ, και ώρα 11:15 +0200, ο/η Peter Stein έγραψε: LDM_DIRECTX didn't help. ... CPU of xorg goes up to 45%, ssh uses 20%. LDM_DIRECTX should make the ssh CPU usage drop to zero. If it didn't, maybe it's not declared correctly. Try: getltscfg -a from a *local* terminal

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Debugging freezing ltsp terminals

2009-08-29 Thread Alkis Georgopoulos
Στις 29-08-2009, ημέρα Σαβ, και ώρα 12:19 +0200, ο/η Xavier Brochard έγραψε: Le vendredi 28 août 2009 11:06:47, Veli-Matti Lintu a écrit : Hi, About a month ago there was discussion about freezing thin clients. Freezing meaning that display, network, keyboard and mouse all freeze

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] can't seem to force a resolution

2009-09-08 Thread Alkis Georgopoulos
Στις 08-09-2009, ημέρα Τρι, και ώρα 08:58 -0600, ο/η David Burgess έγραψε: This is interesting. I put the following in lts.conf: XRANDR_DISABLE=True X_MODE_0=1024x768 This isn't enough. E.g. when the client boots, X may erroneously read the monitor info and think it supports 1024x...@120 Hz,

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] can't seem to force a resolution

2009-09-08 Thread Alkis Georgopoulos
Στις 08-09-2009, ημέρα Τρι, και ώρα 10:02 -0600, ο/η David Burgess έγραψε: X_HORIZSYNC=30-63 That's too little for 1024x768. Try with X_HORIZSYNC=30-88 -- Let Crystal Reports handle the reporting - Free Crystal

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] can't seem to force a resolution

2009-09-08 Thread Alkis Georgopoulos
Στις 08-09-2009, ημέρα Τρι, και ώρα 11:38 -0600, ο/η David Burgess έγραψε: Thanks. I fixed both: XRANDR_DISABLE=True X_MODE_0=1024x768 X_HORZSYNC=30-100 X_VERTREFRESH=55-60 but I still have no video on this monitor once X starts. I assume you put [Default] on top? Try with only the

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] can't seem to force a resolution

2009-09-08 Thread Alkis Georgopoulos
Στις 08-09-2009, ημέρα Τρι, και ώρα 13:34 -0600, ο/η David Burgess έγραψε: On Tue, Sep 8, 2009 at 11:55 AM, Alkis Georgopoulosalk...@gmail.com wrote: Στις 08-09-2009, ημέρα Τρι, και ώρα 11:38 -0600, ο/η David Burgess έγραψε: Thanks. I fixed both: XRANDR_DISABLE=True X_MODE_0=1024x768

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] nic bonding vs multiple dhcp scopes on separate nics

2009-11-10 Thread Alkis Georgopoulos
Στις 10-11-2009, ημέρα Τρι, και ώρα 15:27 -0800, ο/η john έγραψε: ... to bond the nics via ifenslave or setup a second dhcp scope handing out my second nic as the gateway. I've used 4-nic bonding on a cheap unmanaged 100 mbps switch, before upgrading to gigabit. With netperf I saw that I was

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] ubuntu karmic client boot with nfsroot fails

2009-11-13 Thread Alkis Georgopoulos
Στις 13-11-2009, ημέρα Παρ, και ώρα 19:52 +0100, ο/η Bettina Lapp έγραψε: The line I get is something like: /init: export line 15 ip address of secondary dns server: bad variable name So our central DHCP server seems to return some weird options which udhcp doesn't like - which obviously

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] ubuntu karmic client boot with nfsroot fails

2009-11-19 Thread Alkis Georgopoulos
If you remove udhcpc from the chroot, so that everything reverts to the old behavior (ipconfig etc), does it work? Στις 19-11-2009, ημέρα Πεμ, και ώρα 16:34 +0100, ο/η Bettina Lapp έγραψε: update: fixed udhcp script, boot with nbd works, boot with NFS root does not. Client still stops with

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] ubuntu karmic client boot with nfsroot fails

2009-11-19 Thread Alkis Georgopoulos
After removing udhcpc, don't forget to also update the kernel, i.e. `update-initramfs -u` in the chroot, and `ltsp-update-kernels` outside of the chroot. `ltsp-update-image` is NOT needed. If you want, you may visit #ltsp at irc.freenode.net for live help on the problem... Στις 19-11-2009,

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] ltsp via grub.conf

2009-12-02 Thread Alkis Georgopoulos
Etherboot is deprecated in favor of gPXE, from the same team. Also, the nbi.img images that are used by the older etherboot versions have some problems in Ubuntu Karmic. IMHO, gPXE is the way to go. Download the Linux Kernel (SYSLINUX/GRUB/LILO) Loadable Image .lkrn from the following site:

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] ltsp via grub.conf

2009-12-03 Thread Alkis Georgopoulos
That's the way grub2 wants the grub.cfg entry, yup, nothing critical. For reference, here's how I do it on grub2. Grub2 discourages manual editing of grub.cfg, and uses scripts instead. So I create a file named /etc/grub.d/41_gpxe with the following contents: #!/bin/sh exec tail -n +3 $0 # This

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] ltsp via grub.conf

2009-12-03 Thread Alkis Georgopoulos
Yes, it's possible to boot LTSP without using DHCP, TFTP and NBD servers. See the page here: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/UbuntuLTSP/StaticIPsWithoutDHCP You'll also need to pass an nfsroot kernel parameter for NFS: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/UbuntuLTSP/LTSPWithoutNFS Στις

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] ltsp via grub.conf

2009-12-04 Thread Alkis Georgopoulos
It is possible, but you'll need some serious initramfs hacking (putting your wireless driver there, probably even putting the WPA keys etc). Can't help there, never done it. Στις 04-12-2009, ημέρα Παρ, και ώρα 02:58 -0600, ο/η greg wm έγραψε: thank you alkis! ..but, umm, blush, silly me,

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Second DHCP server on internet router

2009-12-07 Thread Alkis Georgopoulos
We're using *only* the router's DHCP server, in tens of labs. It's been working fine for years, both with cheap and expensive routers. https://help.ubuntu.com/community/UbuntuLTSP/ProxyDHCP Στις 07-12-2009, ημέρα Δευ, και ώρα 10:18 +0100, ο/η Rolf-Werner Eilert έγραψε: In our LTSP

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Second DHCP server on internet router

2009-12-07 Thread Alkis Georgopoulos
Στις 07-12-2009, ημέρα Δευ, και ώρα 11:23 +0100, ο/η Rolf-Werner Eilert έγραψε: An interesting approach, but I do not see how the WLAN router could use the information from the LTSP server's DHCP offer. ... If you're using a single NIC setup (i.e. your server has only one NIC and the LTSP

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] karmic kernel panic

2009-12-11 Thread Alkis Georgopoulos
Στις 12-12-2009, ημέρα Σαβ, και ώρα 11:38 +0800, ο/η jam έγραψε: /init: export: line 14: 49.54.56.46: bad variable name kernel-panic ... James see if it's the same problem as this one: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ltsp/+bug/474703 To verify, copy the new file in the chroot and

[Ltsp-discuss] Ubuntu package to netboot from GRUB2 using gPXE

2009-12-24 Thread Alkis Georgopoulos
I've modified somewhat a work of vagrantc's, and I've made a package that adds a gPXE (Etherboot) entry to the grub2 menu, by: * Putting the Etherboot all-drivers kernel to /boot/gpxe.lkrn * Creating an /etc/grub.d/41_gpxe grub2 script * Calling update-grub So if anyone has Ubuntu Karmic or

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] The Dark Ages

2010-01-11 Thread Alkis Georgopoulos
Can you try also forcing the horizontal rate? E.g. put something like this in lts.conf: X_HORZSYNC=30.0-101.0 X_VERTREFRESH=60.0-75.0 I've seen many cases where forcing the correct refresh rates was enough to solve the resolution problems, and X_MODE_0/XRANDR_MODE_0 weren't

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Help with ThinClient everythin upside down (gnome)

2010-01-12 Thread Alkis Georgopoulos
I've seen that happen with intel clients, when the nvidia proprietary drivers were installed on the server (as those drivers mess with the gl libs). If that's the case, you can fix it by either removing the proprietary drivers, or by disabling compiz for all users: sudo gconftool-2 --direct

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Multiple netcards in one LTSP server, how...

2010-01-12 Thread Alkis Georgopoulos
Στις 12-01-2010, ημέρα Τρι, και ώρα 09:06 +0100, ο/η Verner Kjærsgaard έγραψε: Say the eth0 server IP is 192.168.0.10, I could then configure the other 3 interfaces like eth1: 192.168.0.11, eth2: 192.168.0.12, eth3: 192.168.0.13 Ethernet bonding would be easier to manage, and would

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Multiple netcards in one LTSP server, how...

2010-01-12 Thread Alkis Georgopoulos
Στις 12-01-2010, ημέρα Τρι, και ώρα 19:46 +0100, ο/η Verner Kjærsgaard έγραψε: - thank you for your answers! - just to clarify... - I've got 4 24-port switches that connects to all the clients. 100Mbit ports to the clients, 1000Mbit to the server. As of now they are just connected to each

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Multiple netcards in one LTSP server, how...

2010-01-12 Thread Alkis Georgopoulos
Στις 12-01-2010, ημέρα Τρι, και ώρα 12:30 -0700, ο/η David Burgess έγραψε: On Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 12:18 PM, Alkis Georgopoulos alk...@gmail.com wrote: See also https://help.ubuntu.com/community/UbuntuLTSP/FlowControl for a possible problem with mixed-speed networks that may gravely affect

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Multiple netcards in one LTSP server, how...

2010-01-12 Thread Alkis Georgopoulos
Στις 12-01-2010, ημέρα Τρι, και ώρα 22:39 +0100, ο/η Verner Kjærsgaard έγραψε: Well, I've not got 100 clients but someting like 70 or so. They don't run at the same time, perhaps 20 - 20 are active at the same time. The swithes in use are 24 port swithes, hence the need for distributing

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Multiple netcards in one LTSP server, how...

2010-01-13 Thread Alkis Georgopoulos
Στις 13-01-2010, ημέρα Τετ, και ώρα 09:05 +0100, ο/η Verner Kjærsgaard έγραψε: - thank you for all answers! - one quick Q though... Try the 4 different subnets approach...yes, I understand howto fix the dhcpd.conf file in order to do this. But I'm unsure about lts.conf? In this file, only

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Multiple netcards in one LTSP server, how...

2010-01-13 Thread Alkis Georgopoulos
Στις 13-01-2010, ημέρα Τετ, και ώρα 11:04 +0100, ο/η Verner Kjærsgaard έγραψε: Hi list and Alkis, - your latest idea with the 8-port gigabit switch sound REALLY nice! - to fully understand...I would then BOND the 4 server ports together and hook them up to 4 ports of the

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] boot delays

2010-01-15 Thread Alkis Georgopoulos
Στις 15-01-2010, ημέρα Παρ, και ώρα 08:35 -0700, ο/η David Burgess έγραψε: And then after some period of time the tc finishes booting normally and all is well. The delay is approximately equal to 1 minute per extra booting client. In other words, if I reboot all 15 simultaneously, it is

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] PXE boot problem

2010-02-11 Thread Alkis Georgopoulos
Στις 11-02-2010, ημέρα Πεμ, και ώρα 17:33 +0100, ο/η Wim De Geeter έγραψε: When I try to boot this client over PXE I get following error. line 174: Can't open /tmp/net-eth0.conf I'd guess that your initramfs doesn't contain the module needed for your card. So I don't think this is a PXE boot

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Draft implementation of fat clients

2010-02-18 Thread Alkis Georgopoulos
Στις 18-02-2010, ημέρα Πεμ, και ώρα 20:53 +0100, ο/η Nicolas Lebrun έγραψε: I'm trying the fatclient implementation made by Stephane Graber as announced to ltsp-developer list ... It does work, but i still get some problems: - I had to make a rm -fr /home/* inside the chroot because it

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] dnsmasq as dhcp-proxy and older clients

2010-02-20 Thread Alkis Georgopoulos
Στις 20-02-2010, ημέρα Σαβ, και ώρα 07:45 -0700, ο/η Scott Derrick έγραψε: I just installed LTSP using the Ubuntu 9.10 Alternate CD. I installed dnsmasq per the Ubuntu docs at https://help.ubuntu.com/community/UbuntuLTSP/ProxyDHCP we have a dhcp server on the local LAN that I cannot

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Draft implementation of fat clients

2010-02-20 Thread Alkis Georgopoulos
Στις 18-02-2010, ημέρα Πεμ, και ώρα 20:53 +0100, ο/η Nicolas Lebrun έγραψε: - Pulsaudio doesn't function ... it looks like pulseaudio can't write his symbolic link on /tmp because of tmpfs Στις 18-02-2010, ημέρα Πεμ, και ώρα 23:21 +0200, ο/η Alkis Georgopoulos έγραψε: * Hmmm I haven't

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Draft implementation of fat clients

2010-02-21 Thread Alkis Georgopoulos
Στις 21-02-2010, ημέρα Κυρ, και ώρα 23:29 +0100, ο/η Nicolas Lebrun έγραψε: Could you please post your lts.conf ... With SSH_FOLLOW_SYMLINKS=false, I haven't got the error anymore, but I still get no sound ( no hardware ) ... Sure, but I don't think it will help you with your sound problems.

[Ltsp-discuss] Ubuntu fat client how-to

2010-02-22 Thread Alkis Georgopoulos
I've just written a small how-to which may hopefully help people in their first fat client installations: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/UbuntuLTSP/FatClients Any feedback welcome, both for the wiki page and for any problems with the Ubuntu fat client script.

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Unmount devices in LTSP 5

2010-03-10 Thread Alkis Georgopoulos
USB sticks are not unmounted after 2 seconds, the write cache is flushed every 2 seconds, so it's safe to just go ahead and pull the USB sticks off after 2 seconds of inactivity. -- Download Intel#174; Parallel Studio

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Draft implementation of fat clients

2010-03-12 Thread Alkis Georgopoulos
Στις 18-02-2010, ημέρα Πεμ, και ώρα 23:12 +0100, ο/η Nicolas LEBRUN έγραψε: 2010/2/18 Alkis Georgopoulos alk...@gmail.com Στις 18-02-2010, ημέρα Πεμ, και ώρα 20:53 +0100, ο/η Nicolas Lebrun έγραψε: I'm trying the fatclient implementation made by Stephane

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Student Monitoring

2010-03-13 Thread Alkis Georgopoulos
Στις 13-03-2010, ημέρα Σαβ, και ώρα 10:46 +0100, ο/η Sascha Schneider έγραψε: we did use italc too, but this slows down the server extremely + is afaik not maintained anymore. Last packages on sf.net are from 2008 If you have both iTalc and vino-server (the gnome remote desktop server) enabled,

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] feature request: arch option at install

2010-03-23 Thread Alkis Georgopoulos
Στις 23-03-2010, ημέρα Τρι, και ώρα 15:35 -0700, ο/η Jordan Erickson έγραψε: If my opinion is worth reading I would also suggest a simple question dialog during alternate CD install to ask what chroot(s) arch would you like to install? i386, amd64, ... along with the other questions that are

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] 10.04 ltsp-update-image problem

2010-03-24 Thread Alkis Georgopoulos
It's been fixed in ltsp-client-core 5.2.1-0ubuntu3, which is available in the repositories, so you just need to update your chroot. Στις 24-03-2010, ημέρα Τετ, και ώρα 15:32 -0600, ο/η David Burgess έγραψε: 2010/3/24 Jarosław Stemplewski jstemplew...@gmail.com: I'm testing 10.04 ltsp

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Ubuntu 9.10 LTSP5 video detection

2010-04-20 Thread Alkis Georgopoulos
Στις 20-04-2010, ημέρα Τρι, και ώρα 13:55 +0100, ο/η John Ingleby έγραψε: ... until I tried to boot some newer thin clients (HP t5525, IGEL 1 /2, DevonIT TC2). All of these machines boot successfully to the Ubuntu login screen, but when users attempt to login after a minute or so they simply

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Chromium as a local app

2010-04-27 Thread Alkis Georgopoulos
Στις 27-04-2010, ημέρα Τρι, και ώρα 21:38 +0200, ο/η Jarosław Stemplewski έγραψε: Anybody tried to run chromium browser as a local app? Installing in chroot is simple, browser starts on a thin client but nothing appears on the screen. The SingletonLock file is created in ~/.config/chromium

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] First impression of LTSP5

2010-05-29 Thread Alkis Georgopoulos
Στις 29-05-2010, ημέρα Σαβ, και ώρα 17:03 +0200, ο/η Peter έγραψε: I have just loaded up ltsp5 on 10.04 and with a 256k client, the response is very slow, much slower that 8.04. I'm going to setup ltsp4 again and see how it goes. The fat client setup is fantastic. Did you try

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] problem with lts.conf on Ubuntu 10.04

2010-06-08 Thread Alkis Georgopoulos
Στις 08-06-2010, ημέρα Τρι, και ώρα 13:37 +0200, ο/η Lars Madsen έγραψε: Hi I'm currently testing an Ubuntu 10.04 based LTSP against our group of client hardware. Our high end clients works without a problem (provided one changes the eggplant colored background and chooses some 'better'

[Ltsp-discuss] Firefox makes Xorg use too much memory, crashing clients

2010-06-29 Thread Alkis Georgopoulos
Some people have been experiencing thin client crashes on some web pages. I traced one such crash to a problem in Firefox, where it makes Xorg use too much RAM while loading images. E.g. for a 10 megapixel photo, Firefox will make Xorg temporarily use an additional 80MB RAM, crashing any thin

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Firefox makes Xorg use too much memory, crashing clients

2010-06-29 Thread Alkis Georgopoulos
Στις 29-06-2010, ημέρα Τρι, και ώρα 12:22 +0100, ο/η Gavin McCullagh έγραψε: This sounds familiar https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=395260 Thank you Gavid, even though I'd heard about the pixmap issue, I wasn't aware of any attempts at solving it (even if they're

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Firefox makes Xorg use too much memory, crashing clients

2010-06-29 Thread Alkis Georgopoulos
Στις 29-06-2010, ημέρα Τρι, και ώρα 16:45 +0100, ο/η Gavin McCullagh έγραψε: May I ask, does MOZ_DISABLE_IMAGE_OPTIMIZE have the desired effect for you? I only did some minimal testing, but * The clients didn't crash, even 128 MB RAM clients loading 100 MB images (which normally results in

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Integrating LTSP into a complex DHCP domain

2010-07-18 Thread Alkis Georgopoulos
Στις 10-07-2010, ημέρα Σαβ, και ώρα 14:34 -0700, ο/η David Mitchell έγραψε: We’ve brought up a host running Ubuntu Lucid’s LTSP installation, but cannot allow it to run a DHCP server. How can we direct the PXE loaders to the proper server without confusing the Cisco phones and Active

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] boot fails after Loading initrd.img ... (r8168B ?)

2010-07-29 Thread Alkis Georgopoulos
Maybe you need to add the module to the client initrd: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/UbuntuLTSP/AddingModules Στις 29-07-2010, ημέρα Πεμ, και ώρα 19:53 +0200, ο/η ragu έγραψε: I'm again, the bad english speaking guy.-/ I can't get my brandnew emachines working. Please help. Maybe is it

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] nbd

2010-08-06 Thread Alkis Georgopoulos
Στις 06-08-2010, ημέρα Παρ, και ώρα 08:14 -0500, ο/η grant έγραψε: Ok checked today and I have 17 nbdrootd processes running. ps aux | grep nbdrootd | grep -v grep nobody8390 0.0 0.0 4092 640 ?Ss Aug05 0:00 /bin/sh /usr/sbin/nbdrootd /opt/ltsp/images/i386.img ...

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] nbd

2010-08-09 Thread Alkis Georgopoulos
Στις 09-08-2010, ημέρα Δευ, και ώρα 09:13 +0200, ο/η Helmut Lichtenberg έγραψε: Alkis Georgopoulos schrieb am 06. Aug 2010 um 15:44:16 CEST: You can put an extra `exec` at the last line of /usr/sbin/nbdrootd so that no nbdrootd processes exist at all: PATH=/usr/bin:/bin:$PATH exec nbd

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] nbd

2010-08-09 Thread Alkis Georgopoulos
Στις 09-08-2010, ημέρα Δευ, και ώρα 09:30 +0200, ο/η Frédéric Grelot έγραψε: Well, maybe that could be an option of ltsp since ldm is quite light : active nbd/swap (launch client+swapon device) when a user logs in, and disactive it (if possible) when no user is logged on (swapoff+close nbd

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] nbd

2010-08-09 Thread Alkis Georgopoulos
Στις 09-08-2010, ημέρα Δευ, και ώρα 09:52 +0200, ο/η Helmut Lichtenberg έγραψε: Hi Alkis, thanks for your explanations. May I ask some more details? Until now I imagined this connection somehow like opening a file over the network and getting something like a filehandle. I could not

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] lts.conf NFS_HOME in fat-clients

2010-08-10 Thread Alkis Georgopoulos
Στις 10-08-2010, ημέρα Τρι, και ώρα 15:09 +0200, ο/η ragu έγραψε: I'm testing the fat-client environment. It looks good:-) My NFS home isn't on LTSP-Server. I need to define another NFS Server in the fat-client chroot. My simple question: Which script is reading the lts.conf NFS_HOME

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] LDM gives panable virtual desktop

2010-08-12 Thread Alkis Georgopoulos
Στις 11-08-2010, ημέρα Τετ, και ώρα 21:34 +0200, ο/η Verner Kjærsgaard έγραψε: Once logged in, the user is taken to the proper desktop of his, but again it's way too large - and scrollable and so. If the user then finds and opens up 'controlpanel' and sets the correct resolution, subsequent

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] nbd

2010-08-14 Thread Alkis Georgopoulos
Στις 13-08-2010, ημέρα Παρ, και ώρα 10:50 -0400, ο/η Michael Blinn έγραψε: I figure it's about time to open a bug - I just don't know whether I should open it against tcpd or inetd or ltsp Hi Michael, can you use some other program to test that your system is capable of sending keep alive

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] nbd

2010-08-17 Thread Alkis Georgopoulos
Στις 16-08-2010, ημέρα Δευ, και ώρα 13:49 -0400, ο/η Michael Blinn έγραψε: Through more testing (thank you Alkis!) we've narrowed the problem down to hosts.allow syntax. ... This does not: ALL: 192.168. nbdrootd: ALL: keepalive This does not: ALL: 192.168.0.0/16 nbdrootd: ALL: keepalive

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Enabling CPU scaling on clients

2010-08-18 Thread Alkis Georgopoulos
Distro/version? E.g. in Ubuntu Lucid I think it's handled by /etc/init.d/ondemand, which is provided by the initscripts package, which should be preinstalled on the chroot. The main thing this script does is: for CPUFREQ in /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu*/cpufreq/scaling_governor do [ -f $CPUFREQ

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] core switch replacement causing dhcp failure

2010-09-16 Thread Alkis Georgopoulos
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ltsp/+bug/505916 Στις 16-09-2010, ημέρα Πεμ, και ώρα 08:58 -0600, ο/η David Burgess έγραψε: Hi all, Ubuntu 10.04 x86_64 server LTSP 5.x 14 thin clients Cisco switches multiple vlans (tc all on single vlan) Windows Server 2008 doing dhcp (via ip

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Too old thin client - VIA Eden CPU - 10.10 Beta

2010-09-19 Thread Alkis Georgopoulos
Hi Asmo, Please don't file Ubuntu-specific bugs under LTSP (https://bugs.launchpad.net/ltsp/+bugs), e.g. why would the Fedora maintainer be interested in the fact that the Marevick kernel is compiled with the CONFIG_M686 enabled? File them under ubuntu-ltsp instead:

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] LDM Login Language

2010-09-24 Thread Alkis Georgopoulos
Στις 24-09-2010, ημέρα Παρ, και ώρα 10:51 -0700, ο/η Vagrant Cascadian έγραψε: On Fri, Sep 24, 2010 at 09:37:00AM +0200, Martin Gabel wrote: I have a problem with the LDM Language. The Login Options are all in english but the Keyboard Layout is german. The parameter LDM_LANGUAGE seems not

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Thin-client screen resolution problem

2010-10-06 Thread Alkis Georgopoulos
What resolution are you trying to set? X_HORZSYNC=30.0-55.0 is too low, for 1024x768 try the following in lts.conf: [Default/or client mac address] X_HORZSYNC=30.0-88.0 X_VERTREFRESH=50.0-65.0 XRANDR_MODE_0=1024x768 Στις 06-10-2010, ημέρα Τετ, και ώρα 20:25 +0200, ο/η guyonne έγραψε:

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Thin-client screen resolution problem

2010-10-07 Thread Alkis Georgopoulos
21:03, Alkis Georgopoulos a écrit : What resolution are you trying to set? X_HORZSYNC=30.0-55.0 is too low, for 1024x768 try the following in lts.conf: [Default/or client mac address] X_HORZSYNC=30.0-88.0 X_VERTREFRESH=50.0-65.0 XRANDR_MODE_0=1024x768

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Thin-client screen resolution problem

2010-10-07 Thread Alkis Georgopoulos
Στις 07-10-2010, ημέρα Πεμ, και ώρα 12:26 +0200, ο/η guyonne έγραψε: Hi If I try xrandr --output default --mode 1024x768 I get nothing when I switch with Alt+Ctrl+F7 here it is the result of the xrandr command Screen 0: minimum 320 x 200, current 1024 x 768, maximum 1024 x 768 default

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Thin-client screen resolution problem

2010-10-07 Thread Alkis Georgopoulos
Στις 07-10-2010, ημέρα Πεμ, και ώρα 14:12 +0200, ο/η rolf έγραψε: I just want to point out that maybe the problem is with Ubuntu 10.04, not LTSP. When i try to use 1024x768 my screen goes black and the system hangs. And your system doesn't hang when you use another monitor?! Because AFAIK

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Thin-client screen resolution problem

2010-10-07 Thread Alkis Georgopoulos
Στις 07-10-2010, ημέρα Πεμ, και ώρα 14:07 +0200, ο/η guyonne έγραψε: But how can this happened, when it was working correctly with ubuntu 8.04 ? Can you somehow boot it with 8.04 and paste the xorg.conf that's used there, so that we see the exact modeline (timings)? Yes and in 1024x768

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Can someone point me in the appropriate instructions for a fat client

2010-10-07 Thread Alkis Georgopoulos
Στις 07-10-2010, ημέρα Πεμ, και ώρα 08:46 -0400, ο/η B Marl έγραψε: Sorry to bother everyone but I am struggling getting the fat client to work on Ubuntu 10.04. And I really am in need for local items on the client to be read and accessed for a software program call Burnin (by. Passmark).

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Chroot doesn't have Internet Access

2010-10-18 Thread Alkis Georgopoulos
Try this: sudo cp /etc/resolv.conf /opt/ltsp/i386/etc/ -- Download new Adobe(R) Flash(R) Builder(TM) 4 The new Adobe(R) Flex(R) 4 and Flash(R) Builder(TM) 4 (formerly Flex(R) Builder(TM)) enable the development of rich

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] bug in udhcpc

2010-10-21 Thread Alkis Georgopoulos
The udhcp version shipped with Lucid is ancient (5 years old) because at that time they moved the codebase to busybox and it's been maintained there since. https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/busybox/+bug/566845 So you can try backporting from maverick or just copying the binary etc.

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] LTSP screen resolution

2010-10-22 Thread Alkis Georgopoulos
Στις 22-10-2010, ημέρα Παρ, και ώρα 10:48 +0100, ο/η Luis Correia έγραψε: My thin client boots without any problems, except that the screen that is presented is only 800x600 and does not allow any other resolution over it. note, since the thin client is virtual, my problem may not have a

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] changed server ip, no login

2010-11-04 Thread Alkis Georgopoulos
Στις 04-11-2010, ημέρα Πεμ, και ώρα 11:49 +0100, ο/η vla έγραψε: i tried 'ltsp-update-image' 'ltsp-update-sshkeys' but not before i executed 'ltsp-build-client' clients could log in again. It's the opposite, ltsp-update-sshkeys ltsp-update-image.

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Several issues in DHCP-Proxy and FAT-Cient Environment

2010-11-13 Thread Alkis Georgopoulos
Στις 11-11-2010, ημέρα Πεμ, και ώρα 16:07 +0100, ο/η Patrick Riehmann έγραψε: I’ve set up a more complex environment, a mixed DHCP-Proxy and FAT-Client. Same here, but the fat chroot also serves thin clients as well. So I installed the common LTSP server with 10.10-Ubuntu-Alternate-CD a

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] without dhcp but with usb boot

2010-12-04 Thread Alkis Georgopoulos
It's easy to boot LTSP without a DHCP server, you just need to provide static boot information in a gPXE script. Use google translate on the following post, I've written a short how to there: http://users.sch.gr/alkisg/tosteki/index.php?topic=1451.msg30596#msg30596 Στις 04-12-2010, ημέρα Σαβ,

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] LTSP fat clients vs. Debian Live netboot

2010-12-21 Thread Alkis Georgopoulos
Στις 21-12-2010, ημέρα Τρι, και ώρα 21:06 -0500, ο/η Jonathan Carter (highvoltage) έγραψε: 1) Booting would hang on network-manager and/or network-manager-dispatcher. Vagrant, did Debian strip away the fat client plugin switches? In Ubuntu the above is taken care of for the user. Any

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] thincans client unable to boot

2011-01-09 Thread Alkis Georgopoulos
Στις 09-01-2011, ημέρα Κυρ, και ώρα 21:03 +0100, ο/η Xavier Brochard έγραψε: On a fresh new install, using ubuntu 10.04. The Thincan clients download the nbi.img and then nothing happened. As they don't boot I can't debug. All the other clients (good old PCs) boots and runs.

[Ltsp-discuss] win32-loader.exe: easily add gPXE to the Windows boot manager

2011-02-04 Thread Alkis Georgopoulos
win32-loader.exe [1] is a Debian project, similar to Ubuntu's Wubi, that uses the Windows boot manager to load a Linux kernel. We sent a patch upstream [2] to allow win32-loader to load gPXE [3] instead of a Linux kernel. It has been accepted, but since gPXE is not yet in Debian one needs to

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] is LDM_LIMIT_ONE_SESSION still supported under ubuntu lucid?

2011-02-09 Thread Alkis Georgopoulos
Στις 09-02-2011, ημέρα Τετ, και ώρα 10:32 +0100, ο/η Jakob Unterwurzacher έγραψε: I still use gnome-watchdog that kills dangling session automatically. An LTSP developer implemented a much better alternative to gnome-watchdog, called xexit. It's available in his PPA:

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Can't choose language in LDM

2011-02-11 Thread Alkis Georgopoulos
Στις 11-02-2011, ημέρα Παρ, και ώρα 09:38 +0100, ο/η Davy HUBERT έγραψε: All right the output is the same than the previous command : root@ltsp-server:~# nc 127.0.0.1 9571 language:ar_IQ.UTF-8 language:ar_JO.UTF-8 language:ar_KW.UTF-8 [...] language:zh_CN.UTF-8 language:zh_HK.UTF-8 It

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] How to add 'excluded' module to LTSP 5?

2011-03-15 Thread Alkis Georgopoulos
Στις 16-03-2011, ημέρα Τετ, και ώρα 16:01 +1100, ο/η ttargownik έγραψε: Unfortunately for me, I am after the 'r6040.ko' module, which is nowhere to be found in the above mentioned directory, because it is an excluded module. https://help.ubuntu.com/community/UbuntuLTSP/AddingModules

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Lower footprint kernel

2011-04-18 Thread Alkis Georgopoulos
Στις 18-04-2011, ημέρα Δευ, και ώρα 10:43 +0300, ο/η Janno Sannik έγραψε: I'm trying to set up LTSP to ThinCan thin clients (AMD geode 266Mhz, 64mb ram). The problem seems to be that default kernel is too big for thin client to load (.nbi image is ~13MB). It just starts loading the images

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Lower footprint kernel

2011-04-18 Thread Alkis Georgopoulos
Στις 18-04-2011, ημέρα Δευ, και ώρα 13:20 +0300, ο/η Janno Sannik έγραψε: A lot bigger problem is the resolution problem (that's why I actually didn't stick with ubuntu 8) - the screen won't go anything other than 800x600 resolution. Any ideas what I could do? I know the box supports

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Horrid Hardware

2011-04-26 Thread Alkis Georgopoulos
Στις 25-04-2011, ημέρα Δευ, και ώρα 18:52 +0800, ο/η Jam έγραψε: I have some utterly utterly horrid hadware that I need to tame. It resisted ubuntu/suse/centos/rhel6 install but it sweetly runs a 10.04 chroot ltsp. How can I do exactly the same as ltsp but not with a nbd root but a hard disk

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Like Sun Ray?

2011-05-22 Thread Alkis Georgopoulos
Στις 22-05-2011, ημέρα Κυρ, και ώρα 21:04 -0700, ο/η Yudhvir Singh Sidhu έγραψε: What constitutes a fat client? Is it 128+ MB RAM and 400+ MHz? For my purposes I can make do by providing an efficient browser like, say Dillo and word processor. With modern desktop environments, 128 MB RAM are

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] nc -q unsupported on Fedora/RHEL

2011-05-24 Thread Alkis Georgopoulos
Στις 23-05-2011, ημέρα Δευ, και ώρα 12:17 -1000, ο/η Warren Togami Jr. έγραψε: http://hg.fedorahosted.org/hg/virt-manager/rev/1f781890ea4a This is a very similar issue. Notice their kludge to detect nc's capabilities. I'd use something like this instead, in some initialization code like e.g.

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] wrong resolution in rdesktop on bigger monitors

2011-06-16 Thread Alkis Georgopoulos
Στις 15-06-2011, ημέρα Τετ, και ώρα 20:47 -0600, ο/η David Burgess έγραψε: This system has no user account besides the one I created during initial installation, as the thin clients are only used for Windows Remote Desktop. In fact, the LTSP server is only an Ubuntu Server installation with no

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] MOUNT_LOCAL_REAL_HOME option not working

2011-06-26 Thread Alkis Georgopoulos
Στις 27-06-2011, ημέρα Δευ, και ώρα 02:40 +0200, ο/η Simone έγραψε: I cannot understand how to expose all the content of my server's /home to my fatclients. Reading the ubuntu documentation (https://help.ubuntu.com/community/UbuntuLTSP/GetMoreFromLocalApps#10.04), I found the option

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] fat client account questions

2011-07-04 Thread Alkis Georgopoulos
See inline. Στις 04-07-2011, ημέρα Δευ, και ώρα 11:09 -0600, ο/η David Burgess έγραψε: david@ren:~$ grep david /etc/group adm:x:4:david dialout:x:20:david cdrom:x:24:david plugdev:x:46:david lpadmin:x:106:david david:x:1000:david david@ren:~$ The output of the `id` command, which shows

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