-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA512 On 10/17/2011 03:43 PM, Dr. Rüdiger Kupper (Kepler-Gymnasium Freudenstadt) wrote: > Hello Stephane, > > I'm still running natty with the ldm package from your PPA, as you > suggested. This does definitely not work as expected: Chosing > "default" from the ldm login screen does not honor ~/.dmrc. It's > true that ldm somehow remembers the last session the user chose, > but this is not reflected in ~/.dmrc. (Actually where does ldm > save the default session? I was not able to find out.) > > I have been trying for several hours and could just not predict > how ldm choses the default session. Sometimes it seemd to depend > on ~/.dmrc, sometimes it didn't. Since I cannot run a production > system for hundreds of users without being able to predict what > login session they will see, I turned back to forcing gnome-classic > via LDM_XSESSION. This, at least, works reliably. > > Expected behaviour: ldm should behave exactly as gdm would, i.e. > save the user's choice in ~/.dmrc and act accordingly. > Specifically, there should be no difference if the user logs in > locally on the server via gdm, or logs on remotely on a client via > ldm. (Some users in our setup can actually log onto the server > directly. This ldm and gdm must interact transparently.) > > If you say the problem has been fixed in oneiric, I will be happy > to upgrade during the next off-service time, e.g., next weekend. > > Regards, Rüdiger
What I'm saying is that LDM_SESSION has been fixed in the ldm version where's shipping in Oneiric, which is the same that's currently in the daily PPA. In Natty's version, ldm was simply ignoring the value of LDM_SESSION, forcing people to use LDM_XSESSION as a very hacky workaround. Now, quickly looking at the X50-dmrc-processing script, it seems to only read/write dmrc if LDM_SESSION is set to "default", which it shouldn't if your lts.conf set's it to "gnome-session - --session=gnome-fallback". I'm not saying we don't have another bug with dmrc handling, but telling people to change LDM_XSESSION on a system that's running an up to date ldm is just plain wrong and will cause weird bugs that will take us weeks to figure out. A lot of race conditions in DBUS and the general desktop tend to happen when you don't call /etc/X11/Xsession. I guess it'd be a good idea to have a few of us poke at ldm next week at the hackfest and see if there's indeed still something wrong with it. One thing that worries me a bit looking at my dmrc here is that lightdm on Oneiric doesn't seem to set the Exec/TryExec keys and its syntax doesn't seem to be valid either. So we may actually have a bug because of lightdm generating a broken .dmrc for users that have the same home directory on LTSP and on a regular desktop. - -- Stéphane Graber Ubuntu developer http://www.ubuntu.com -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iQIcBAEBCgAGBQJOnIxnAAoJEMY4l01keS1nHZkP/2utzTx4/JxAuet7XM3YSeyM wTzhHadIf3hOnFFwPIe8XnV1kqDCgL0T7YQVDLeydEKbttqOlU7FTEKnW14KEw7b eNAjo9662PKbEmJdjuVCvoE4LEfv27wQK84XxDcJWiNJAxDBIkqil5wg99jvqT0E lLvoerRw4RdzDyynGR8aqh+9OFbuzSMVJt0FTDbZUIDp16cEMmFefRFJcsnZIY5A c0BniQ4Rd4NF/MzgPADI2HsOMvkb4aY/08bt9WtmKd7RYMfzlMCMFX6bpW6a5hYD SeGyb/nR6hhixa++uk0VOB9xmXPJDqhpA0HRE2PDYOGVnf3h9bIlOoLtwBXn7mxN FOHBdwelphUmgrdWmdEUq5QPoGVH1543x9WOTyLHHORDf3eNvNxdiOuyOfHHsojO 3mOVwioghbPnC8w+Bg18K+JrclRy0c6Hcb6rz0Tose1UbGjryCpvM+dN1UaT+giI 1WgFz/YPQx8AYJ0KPh6QTEtdAmtcpxudFi84jBpKQ5HIRMd/tlsLejYrJpK1vlqz IUJL37scnQ9VoFoGDQHCiqcH1ADbDo0wm5p0DcbBp2j8krSVCQURAXurq+fOhuRX p6n/FMJQs9XHAbXk/EZpv9Yo2U/RTvNCllHMVOHUswAEHI5vXKr7Ur902JEw4LY+ ag8ARG0qK29rAHq1g5s4 =HNxn -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ All the data continuously generated in your IT infrastructure contains a definitive record of customers, application performance, security threats, fraudulent activity and more. Splunk takes this data and makes sense of it. Business sense. IT sense. Common sense. http://p.sf.net/sfu/splunk-d2d-oct _____________________________________________________________________ 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
