Hi, all
I'm trying the fatclient implementation made by Stephane Graber as announced to ltsp-developper list Here's his message ... > The way I'm planning it to work is the following: > - - Thin client and Fat client chroots will be the same > - - The client mode (fat or thin) will be configured using a lts.conf > parameter (LTSP_FATCLIENT true/false) > - - The chroot in order to support fat client must include both a > regular > LTSP chroot + the content of a regular application server > > The way it's currently implemented uses SSH for login, then SSH to > mount > /home as usual. Only difference between thin and fat client mode > is that > in fat client mode, it'll start a local /etc/X11/Xsession instead of a > remote one. The SSH socket is still kept established both to > access the > home directory and to start remote applications if wanted. > > As it's currently implemented in ldm-trunk, I successfully built a fat > client chroot based on Ubuntu karmic, by installing > "ubuntu-desktop" in > the chroot, then removing "gdm", "network-manager-.*", "modemmanager", > "ubufox", "apport-gtk", "apport", "apport-symptoms" and finally > clearing > orphan packages. > > The same result can be obtained by doing the following in the chroot > using current bzr code (not released yet): > export LTSP_HANDLE_DAEMONS=false > mount -t proc proc /proc > apt-get install ubuntu-desktop > apt-get remove --purge gdm network-manager.* modemmanager ubufox > apport-gtk apport apport-symptoms > apt-get autoremove --purge > rm /var/cache/apt/archives/*.deb > > Then update your chroot image with: > ltsp-update-image -n --arch i386 > > And finally boot it with LTSP_FATCLIENT=true set in lts.conf > I've done it on a karmic server with stgraber's ppa, but installed more programs inside the chroot : apt-get install language-pack-fr-base language-pack-gnome-fr-base language-pack-gnome-fr language-support-writing-fr language-support-fr openoffice.org openoffice.org-l10n-fr openoffice.org-help-fr ttf-mscorefonts-installer ttf-linux-libertine flashplugin-nonfree-extrasound w32codecs acroread googleearth celestia vlc mplayer scite gimp openclipart apt-get install firefox firefox-3.5-gnome-support latex-xft-fonts (Yes, I'm french ;) It does work, but i still get some problems : - I had to make a "rm -fr /home/*" inside the chroot because it wasn't empty ... strange, , but I mention - Pulsaudio doesn't function ... it looks like pulseaudio can't write his symbolic link on /tmp because of tmpfs - Firefox can't function because it doesn't find the network... As I'm a newbie, I have no solution ... Any idea to help ? ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Download Intel® Parallel Studio Eval Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev _____________________________________________________________________ Ltsp-discuss mailing list. To un-subscribe, or change prefs, goto: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ltsp-discuss For additional LTSP help, try #ltsp channel on irc.freenode.net
