hi, Am Montag, den 28.08.2006, 18:36 +0100 schrieb Gavin McCullagh: > On Mon, 28 Aug 2006, Brad Thomas wrote: > > > I have setup a lab for the school here running an Edubuntu server. My > > clients are having problems though. I cannot get them to load X at > > times. This is what happens: > > 1. I will boot one of my clients and it'll load up fine. > > 2. I then boot a second client. I get the following after boot in a > > terminal window (no GUI login screen): > > ---------------------------- > > Ubuntu 6.06 LTS ltsp tty1 > > ltsp login: > > ---------------------------- > > Have you tried hitting <ctrl><alt><F7> when you see this screen? I have > yet to understand this behaviour myself but ferquently thin clients seem to > boot to the text terminal instead of showing the X output (even though X is > started). > > Actually, if someone knows the answer to this and how to fix it I'd be > mightily interested. i only recently heard about that myself, there seems to be a timing issue between ldm (the login manager) and usplash (the splashscreen app that switches to console 1 if it doesnt get killed early enough and doesnt detect GDM) i didnt see that myself in any tests because i have set SOUND=True in all my lts.conf files ... this delays the startup of the login manager for half a second or so, exactly the time it needs for usplash to be shut down ... so an easy workaround is to set SOUND=True in an /opt/ltsp/i386/etc/lts.conf file you create, even if you dont have sound support on the hardware (esd will fail gracefully if it cant connect to a sound device)
i'll try to find a fix soon and to push it to dapper-updates ...
ciao
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