Op (25/01/09 20:38), Rob Owens schreef:
> On Sun, Jan 25, 2009 at 03:19:10PM -0800, Vagrant Cascadian wrote:
> > On Sat, Jan 24, 2009 at 08:49:31AM -0500, Rob Owens wrote:
> > > On my Debian Lenny machine with LTSP 5 and a fresh chroot environment, I
> > > get
> > > an incomplete list of options when I attempt to choose my session at the
> > > ldm
> > > screen. These are my only options:
> >
> > > Default
> > > Failsafe xterm
> >
> > > I have Gnome and FVWM-Crystal installed, and see those options in my GDM
> > > screen. When I log into a thin client, I get Gnome because that is my
> > > default.
> >
> > sounds like ldminfod isn't set up on the server, which parses the
> > /usr/share/xsessions/*.desktop files for session types.
> >
> > does /usr/sbin/ldminfod exist on your server? should be part of the
> > ltsp-server
> > package.
> >
> > "grep ldminfod /etc/inetd.conf" should return something like this:
> >
> > 9571 stream tcp nowait nobody /usr/sbin/tcpd
> > /usr/sbin/ldminfod
> >
>
> ldminfod exists, and I get the output you've shown above.
>
> > if it doesn't, try to add it with the command:
> >
> > update-inetd --group LTSP --add "9571 stream tcp nowait
> > nobody /usr/sbin/tcpd /usr/sbin/ldminfod"
> >
> > and restart inetd:
> >
> > invoke-rc.d openbsd-inetd restart
> >
> > "telnet 127.0.0.1 9571" should return something like this:
> >
> > Trying 127.0.0.1...
> > Connected to 127.0.0.1.
> > Escape character is '^]'.
> > language:en_US.UTF-8
> > language:es_US.UTF-8
> > session:/usr/bin/icewm-session
> > session:/usr/lib/gdm/gdm-ssh-session
> > session:startxfce4
> > session:/usr/bin/gnome-session
> > session:awesome
> > xsession:/etc/X11/Xsession
> > rating:97
> >
> "telnet 127.0.0.1 9571" gives me:
>
> Trying 127.0.0.1...
> Connected to 127.0.0.1.
> Escape character is '^]'.
> language:
> language:en_US.UTF-8
> Traceback (most recent call last):
> File "/usr/sbin/ldminfod", line 128, in <module>
> lines = get_sessions('/usr/share/xsessions/')
> File "/usr/sbin/ldminfod", line 87, in get_sessions
> variable, value = line.split('=')
> ValueError: too many values to unpack
> Connection closed by foreign host.
>
> Obviously this is part of my problem, but I don't know what it means...
> Some of my *.desktop files in /usr/share/xsessions contain a lot of lines for
> alternate languages (which I don't speak). Just throwing that out there in
> case it's the cause of the "too many values to unpack" error.
Is this already solved?
I have the same problem.
A workaround:
- choose Failsafe xterm
- type 'startkde'
The default DM is gnome, but the only thing i see, is the background-pic.
After pressing ctr-alt-del, a logoff window pops up, so gnome is running, but
not fully.
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