I can certainly rule out two of your potential problems: your hardware configuration should easily work for five clients (I've done it on a very similar system) and logging in a user more than once should not freeze the system (although it can have an interesting effect on the first desktop's functionality). Good luck, David Clinton
On Sun, 2008-06-15 at 12:59 -0400, Peter wrote: > After months of testing, I made our edubuntu thin client system live > and it froze ... twice... and I can't figure out why. > > We're using Edubuntu 7.10. > We're running a dell poweredge, 2.8ghz p4 (I'm sure it's a 2.something > p4), 1gb ram, raid 1 array of 200GB+ with 5 clients (1ghz p3, 256MB > ram). All 10/100 network equipment. > > When any of the clients boot and log in, it's fast...so nice and fast. > But after the system has been running a few hours and students begin > to use it (and I'm not there). It freezes hard. I *think* it freezes > hard b/c I haven't tested pinging it when it's down. But it doens't > reply to anything including ctrl-alt-bkspace, or ctrl-alt-f1. And I > know the /var/log/messages file stops creating --MARK-- entries > during this time. When I find it frozen, there is video, but no > response to mouse or keyboard. > > In our tests, we only experimented with 1 client. Could 5 clients > create too much demand on our server? I recently installed the ssl > update and rebuilt the images...could I have done something wrong > there? And one more detail: we're posting our username-password info > per computer...it's conceivable that one user might be getting signed > in more than once. Would that do it? Or how about using Adobe Flash 9? > > thx so much, > -peter > Bard High School Early College > NY, NY > -- edubuntu-users mailing list [email protected] Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/edubuntu-users
