[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > -------- Original Message -------- > Subject: RE: Is it just me, or is LTSP a mess? > From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Tue, September 09, 2008 2:07 pm > To: "R. Scott Belford" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Scott, > > I can assure you that new thin clients have problems too... I have > unsuccessfully tried setting up 3 labs, HP DL360 (2) quad core and 8GB > RAM, (30) HP T5530 clients. I have spent countless hours/days trying to > work out all of the problems. Everything looked great with one client, > then I started running into problems with multiple clients booting. I > applied the DirectX setting, tried all DHCP settings to no avail, ran > all updates, still not reliable. I have since gone back to ole > faithful, K12LTSP CentOS ver. 5. Run all updates and everything has > worked like a charm:) The CentOS ver 5 will be supported until 2014, so > I don't see any problems. As far as the desktop, that is easily > changed/configured. > > Ron McDaniel > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Conecuh County Schools > Technology Coordinator > > Sounds similar to my specs. except that we have 32 T5135's. Today the system appears to have worked fine today for us. http://k2.mtacademy.us:8081/munin/localdomain/localhost.localdomain.html#System
Things that seem to help: -ltsp-build-client --with-sourceslist . Then chroot /opt/ltsp/i386 apt-get update apt-get upgrade -the settings mentioned for the /etc/firefox-3.0/pref/firefox.js file. http://k2.mtacademy.us:8081/tmp/firefox.js pref("extensions.update.enabled", true); pref("intl.locale.matchOS", true); pref("browser.shell.checkDefaultBrowser", false); pref("browser.EULA.override", true); pref("browser.safebrowsing.enabled",false); pref("browser.safebrowsing.malware.enabled",false); pref("browser.urlbar.maxRichResults",false); pref("browser.cache.offline.enable",false); pref("browser.cache.disk.enable",false); -I noticed the /home/user/.xsession-errors file was complaining about not finding the video driver so I install xorg-driver-fglrx on the server. Not sure if the 5530's have the same video. -My lts.conf file is: (http://k2.mtacademy.us:8081/tmp/lts.conf) [default] LDM_DIRECTX=True SOUND=Ture LOCALDEV=True SYSLOG=server USE_LOCAL_SWAP=True X_COLOR_DEPTH=16 #X_MODE_0=1024X786 LDM_PASSWORD=xxxxxx LDM_LIMIT_ONE_SESSION=True [00:1e:0b:39:a3:40] LDM_AUTOLOGIN=true LDM_USERNAME=guest2039 [00:1e:0b:39:9e:4c] LDM_AUTOLOGIN=true LDM_USERNAME=guest2038 [00:1e:0b:39:9d:19] LDM_AUTOLOGIN=true LDM_USERNAME=guest2037 -You may want to disable the daemon server for tftpd-hpa as it is enabled in inetd.conf -adding to /etc/host.allow nbdswapd: ALL: keepalive Anybody looking for a kiosk type of setup? The following file may help you out: /etc/X11/Xsession.d/10KioskCleanUp http://k2.mtacademy.us:8081/tmp/10KioskCleanUp if [ `stat -c %G $HOME` == guest ]; then for goodbye in `ls -A $HOME/.` do if [ ! -e "/home/doNotDelete/$goodbye" ]; then rm -fR "$HOME/$goodbye" fi done chmod 700 $HOME cp -r /etc/skel/* $HOME cp -r /etc/skel/.[a-z]* $HOME chown -R "$USER:guest" $HOME fi Basically, anybody a member of guest gets their directory blown away on login. -- Regards -------------------------------------- Gerald Drouillard Technology Architect Drouillard & Associates, Inc. http://www.Drouillard.biz -- edubuntu-users mailing list [email protected] Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/edubuntu-users
