How do u know it is not working? can u paste some data? David Van Assche
On Wed, Sep 10, 2008 at 1:26 PM, Todd O'Bryan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Wed, Sep 10, 2008 at 5:05 AM, David Van Assche <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: >> >> I've taken a look into the email in question, and can answer some >> questions. I in no way am affiliated with canonical, though I do work >> within the ed/ubuntu community. Firstly, Scott mentions not using >> 8.04, clearly you should upgrade as that will solve 50% of your >> issues... the other issues are all valid, and I guess the problem is >> one of communication between developers and end users. Lets address >> the issues seperately: >> >> - The gnome lingering process problem >> >> Agreed.. this is a heavy issue that is a pain in the behind, but it is >> not LTSP centric... the fault lies with gnome. Right now the >> workaround is a watchdog script, which seems to work ok, but is by no >> means a fix... This needs to be tackled from the gnome side... Right >> now the solution is in monitoring and ending misbehaving processes >> through the script or by hand via pkill -u or killall. It makes sense >> to clean all processes at least 1 time per day... consider it >> maintenance. > > I'm actually running the gnome-watchdog package that Philipp Hanselmann > wrote. It's not working, he's never tested it on 8.04, so it's hardly his > fault. I sent an email asking if I had to do something extra to make it > start working and got no answer. > > Also, note that, useful as gnome-watchdog is, it's not in any of the > official repos. Given that it's essential, someone official should have > adopted it and pulled it into the repos. > > Todd > > -- edubuntu-users mailing list [email protected] Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/edubuntu-users
