Hello Alkis, Thank you for your reply.
We wrote a little script to delete all the configuration files from the users when we migrated their files. All the .something files and folders were deleted before they logged in. All that is in their directories are their documents. I double-checked and there is no ~/.dmrc file. I tried to log in as a user and found after the failed log in attempt there is a newly-created file called .xsession-errors. Inside that file is the following: Xsession: X session started for jbishay at Mon May 15 10:34:32 EST 2017 localuser:jbishay being added to access control list openConnection: connect: No such file or directory cannot connect to brltty at :0 /etc/X11/Xsession: 3: [: x: unexpected operator Searching online for the openConnection shows me some postings about Nvidia cards and driver errors, but we are using clients with ATI cards. I also tried a different thin client and the same issue arose. What else could it be? A permission's issue? A different UID or GID between the old and new machines? To transfer the files over we used rsync on /home from the old server to the new one. The new server actually had an old backup of /home so rsync was a faster way of updating everyone's files rather than trying to move over 600 GB of users from scratch. I appreciate the help! Joseph On Mon, May 15, 2017 at 2:09 AM, Alkis Georgopoulos <alk...@gmail.com> wrote: > Check if those users have a ~/.dmrc file from which they select e.g. the > gnome-flashback session, which doesn't exist in mate. > > If so, delete those files. > > On 15/05/2017 06:24 πμ, Joseph Bishay wrote: >> Hello everyone, >> >> I hope you are all doing very well today. >> >> We have a new LTSP server for our school. It is a base OS of >> Ubuntu-Mate that then has LTSP installed on top of it in 2-NIC >> configuration. We've been running such a system for over a decade >> with lots of success. >> >> When we were copying over our users /home folders, we came across a >> strange problem -- some users are able to log on from the fat clients, >> but some users cannot. All users can log into the server directly if >> they are standing at the server, but not all those same users can log >> in from a fat client! I am unable to determine what is the difference >> between those who are able to log in and those who cannot. >> >> We have tried to update the SSH keys and the ltsp-image, but no >> effect. Some users can log in, some cannot. >> >> For those who cannot, what happens is they log in, put the correct >> password, and they see the login screen go away as if it is loading >> their desktop, the mouse turns into the loading cursor, and then it >> just loads up the login screen again. It is definitely not the same >> thing that happens if they were to put a wrong password. >> >> Where should we look for clues? How could we fix this please? >> >> Thank you! >> Joseph >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most >> engaging tech sites, Slashdot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot >> _____________________________________________________________________ >> 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 >> > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most > engaging tech sites, Slashdot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot > _____________________________________________________________________ > 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 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most engaging tech sites, Slashdot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot _____________________________________________________________________ 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
