Quoting Rüdiger Kupper: > Dear list, > > I have recently upgraded my LTSP server to quantal. I have created a new > thin client chroot with the ltsp-create-client script. > > The thin client boots up fine, but the ldm login screen does not show > the correct list of sessions: > It shows "xterm" and "Ubuntu" only, although gnome-fallback and > gnome-classic are present on the server. > > ldminfod on the server returns: > > [...] > session:gnome-session --session=gnome-classic > session:gnome-session --session=gnome-fallback > session:gnome-session --session=ubuntu > session-with-name:GNOME Classic:gnome-session --session=gnome-classic > session-with-name:GNOME Classic (No effects):gnome-session > --session=gnome-fallback > session-with-name:Ubuntu:gnome-session --session=ubuntu > xsession:/etc/X11/Xsession > > I can connect via netcat to the server on port 9571 and get the same > output from ldminfod as shown above. So ldminfod detects the sessions > all right, but the client does not show them on the login screen. > > Putting LDM_SESSION="gnome-session --session=gnome-fallback" into > lts.conf leads to message 'Failed to load session "gnome-fallback"'. So > there seems to be a real problem starting the session. However, on the > server, I can manually start "gnome-session --session=gnome-fallback" > and it woks fine. > > I can't understand why ldm does not detect and/or start the installed > sessions. > > Any ideas are greatly appreciated, > Regards, > Rüdiger > > Note: I have filed a bug report at launchpad for this issue, since it > happens with a freshly generated client chroot. See > https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ldm/+bug/1070357 . > -- > StR Dr. Rüdiger Kupper > Kepler-Gymnasium Freudenstadt
Have you checked if the gnome-session-fallback packages have been installed in the chroot? There are two ways that ltsp can be setup. One does not use chroot and the other does. I am assuming that your setup is the latter. Richard ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ WINDOWS 8 is here. Millions of people. Your app in 30 days. Visit The Windows 8 Center at Sourceforge for all your go to resources. http://windows8center.sourceforge.net/ join-generation-app-and-make-money-coding-fast/ _____________________________________________________________________ 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
