Re: ubuntu 10.04: problems with thin clients hanging on boot

2011-09-14 Thread Gavin McCullagh
Hi, On Wed, 14 Sep 2011, john wrote: Some of my cable spans are 100 mb and there does seem to be a correlation between distance from the server and the amount of stations that hang. *Thinking out loud* I wonder if there is some work around? Is this a race condition of some sort? If so I

Re: Help! 10.04 LTSP configuration using only one nic

2011-09-07 Thread Gavin McCullagh
Hi, On Tue, 06 Sep 2011, Jim Christiansen wrote: My old Centos LTSP server for our Library died near the end of June. My students had been playing with a new 10.04 64 setup and had it serving 32 bit fat clients, but really slowly. One of the students altered something in iptables to make

Re: Planning for summer work/next school year

2011-05-31 Thread Gavin McCullagh
Hi, oops, I should clarify this: On Tue, 31 May 2011, Gavin McCullagh wrote: Gnome losing all settings (due to gconfd problem I suspect), ... until you logout and login again. It doesn't permanently lose settings. Gavin -- edubuntu-users mailing list edubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com

Re: Mentoring for improving wiki pages?

2010-05-13 Thread Gavin McCullagh
Hi, On Thu, 13 May 2010, David Groos wrote: Here are some possible 'sticky points'. There might be some good wiki pages on them now, but when I first tackled these tasks, they were lacking. They are critical to many school setups. --iTALC setup --Basic squid proxy setup --Localapps

Re: Monday = no more Internet in localapps????

2010-04-27 Thread Gavin McCullagh
Hi, On Mon, 26 Apr 2010, Joseph Hartman wrote: Anyways, I initially connected my XP laptop to the LTSP network and couldn't get Internet, which means NAT wasn't working. Do your thin clients generally get their internet access via NAT on your LTSP server? Then I changed to our alternate

Re: Is ubuntu trying to resolve localhost to an ipv6 address?

2010-04-22 Thread Gavin McCullagh
Hi, On Wed, 21 Apr 2010, john wrote: I think that's not the behaviour I want since I am not running ipv6 and I don't need the extra chatter on the network. If I change /etc/modprobe.d/aliases to read alias net-pf-10 ipv6 off will bad things happen? Probably not, but disabling IPv6 is

Re: Is ubuntu trying to resolve localhost to an ipv6 address?

2010-04-21 Thread Gavin McCullagh
Hi, On Tue, 20 Apr 2010, john wrote: I am troubleshooting some network issues. Running wireshark and watching traffic I notice I have many messages like this: DNS Standard query localhost.vanguard.vashonsd.org DNS Standard query response, no such name This is normal enough. The

Re: FLASH PLAYER OR EQUIVALENT

2010-03-08 Thread Gavin McCullagh
On Mon, 08 Mar 2010, Yves Pennec wrote: I finally found my way through Synaptic. Thanks to all who replied, it was really helpful. Now I'd like to use my wifi n dongle (EMTEK EKCOWI300) but could not find a clue on where to find a driver, for the time being, I have bought a 5m LAN cable,

Re: FLASH PLAYER OR EQUIVALENT

2010-03-06 Thread Gavin McCullagh
Hi, On Sat, 06 Mar 2010, Yves Pennec wrote: I have shifted to Linux-Ubuntu. Problem : can't read videos with Firefox or Chrome. I have found some sofwtare (like Adobe Flash Player) but I am totally unable to install it. Can anyone send me a detailed step by step procedure ? Generally in

Re: Looking for recomendations: scanner

2010-02-18 Thread Gavin McCullagh
Hi David, On Thu, 18 Feb 2010, David Groos wrote: I'm looking to get a scanner or two in my classroom and want to get something that works well with Edubuntu thin clients. I'm not very knowledgeable about scanners and would appreciate you sharing your experience and advice. Not looking for

flash plugin becoming less important?

2010-02-02 Thread Gavin McCullagh
Hi, I've been reading recently of how various vendors, notably Google and Apple are pushing to use new features of HTML5 to avoid the Flash plugin for situations like video playing. Firefox, Safari, Opera, Chrome are all implementing HTML5 at present.

Re: How to fix RAID1 array

2010-01-07 Thread Gavin McCullagh
Hi, On Thu, 07 Jan 2010, Todd O'Bryan wrote: I have my student home folders on a RAID1 array. One of the hard drives seems to have become corrupted--I'm getting Buffer IO errors. Ouch. Is that a hardware RAID card or an MD linux software RAID one? Is the hard drive definitely bad so I

Re: How to fix RAID1 array

2010-01-07 Thread Gavin McCullagh
Hi, On Thu, 07 Jan 2010, Gavin McCullagh wrote: Anyone got a link to TFM that I should R before I attempt this? http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Software-RAID-HOWTO.html This appears to be the up to date version: http://www.linuxfoundation.org/collaborate/workgroups/linux-raid Gavin

Re: How to fix RAID1 array

2010-01-07 Thread Gavin McCullagh
On Thu, 07 Jan 2010, Scott Balneaves wrote: _ _ ____ _ _ | _ \ /\ / | |/ / | | | __ \ / | | |_) | / \ | || ' /| | | | |__) | (___ | _ / /\ \| || | | | | ___/ \___ \ | |_) / \ || . \| |__| | | ) | |/_/

Re: How/why does network-manager interfere with /etc/resolve.conf

2009-12-07 Thread Gavin McCullagh
Hi, On Mon, 07 Dec 2009, john wrote: Doing apt-get remove network-manager removed network-manager and network-manager-gnome but left ubuntu-desktop That's good to know. Thanks, Gavin -- edubuntu-users mailing list edubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at:

Re: How/why does network-manager interfere with /etc/resolve.conf

2009-12-07 Thread Gavin McCullagh
Hi, On Mon, 07 Dec 2009, Scott Balneaves wrote: For people interested in leaving NetworkMangler^H^H^H^H^H^H^HManager around for it's ease of use for wireless, but looking for a more command-liney way to interact with it, I've packaged cnetworkmanager, and written a manpage for it. It's in

Re: How/why does network-manager interfere with /etc/resolve.conf

2009-12-04 Thread Gavin McCullagh
Hi, On Thu, 03 Dec 2009, john wrote: I guess I don't understand how network-manager, dbus-subsystem, etc, etc, work with regards to networking. I feel like it's getting harder and harder to figure out who's in charge I feel your pain. You get to know how to use a whole heap of config files

Re: How likely to work would a Jaunty-to-Karmic server upgrade, be?

2009-11-25 Thread Gavin McCullagh
Hi, On Tue, 24 Nov 2009, David Groos wrote: Thanks Gavin for sending your ideas! See below for comment. == Try Manual TFTP Download == snip Didn't really get this so tried the next idea... Fair enough, sorry. I should have explained better. Basically, it looked (before) like the TFTP

Re: How likely to work would a Jaunty-to-Karmic server upgrade, be?

2009-11-24 Thread Gavin McCullagh
On Mon, 23 Nov 2009, David Groos wrote: I've attempted a Jaunty to Karmic LTSP server upgrade. Things weren't completely smooth but I was able to do the upgrade without too much problem. However, when I test boot a thin client, the screen goes to its regular point of the last line saying

Re: why is firefox such a CPU hog?

2009-11-17 Thread Gavin McCullagh
Hi, On Mon, 16 Nov 2009, john wrote: I just got to wondering (in an idle sort of way) why applications like openoffice which is so much bigger than firefox seem to run just fine with 24 copies open and firefox doesn't? I'd say it's down to the complexity and number of documents that the

Re: why is firefox such a CPU hog?

2009-11-16 Thread Gavin McCullagh
Hi, On Mon, 16 Nov 2009, Scott Balneaves wrote: The problem here isn't LTSP. LTSP can't manufacture cpu cycles out of thin air. If a badly behaved application uses up all your cpu cycles, there's nothing LTSP can do about that: it's just a way of running remote X. I work on a 2.8GHz P4 and

Re: Development workflow, and official Edubuntu PPA's...

2009-11-10 Thread Gavin McCullagh
Hi, On Tue, 10 Nov 2009, Jonathan Carter wrote: I think it's brilliant, and contributions to the PPA's could be sponsored for universe if needed and also count towards the person's goal to become a MOTU if they wish to do so. It also allows developers to get fixes to people with problems who

Re: Best way(s) to speed up lab?

2009-08-30 Thread Gavin McCullagh
Hi, On Sun, 30 Aug 2009, Harry Sweet wrote: Is there any specific switch you recommend? We're somewhat caught between a tight budget and a need for good functional switches. Over time, we've found the D-Link DES-3550 and DES-3526 are affordable, stable and functional. They do multicast

Re: Best way(s) to speed up lab?

2009-08-29 Thread Gavin McCullagh
Hi, On Sat, 29 Aug 2009, Harry Sweet wrote: Which of these things would likely improve performance the most? If you're having a serious, repeating lag problem, it sounds like it is caused by a specific bottleneck. You can optimise various things and you might get lucky, but there's a

Re: Directory tools for Edubuntu server

2009-08-26 Thread Gavin McCullagh
Hi folks, On Wed, 17 Jun 2009, Jordan Erickson wrote: Please comment on the existing bug here: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-system-tools/+bug/259163 It's been open for a while - I would think it'd be a very easy thing to fix, but I guess nobody has gotten around to

Re: I got NAT set up

2009-08-23 Thread Gavin McCullagh
Hi, On Wed, 19 Aug 2009, Joseph Hartman wrote: Cheers to Gavin and anyone else who helped noobify the How to NAT page. I had very little trouble this morning setting it up and where I did get bogged down I took the time to add some clarifying remarks on the How To so hopefully others will

Re: Quick question for enabling NAT in LTSP (or edubuntu) - iptables details

2009-08-19 Thread Gavin McCullagh
Hi, On Wed, 19 Aug 2009, Patrick McKnight wrote: Regarding the eth1 hard code, I first retrieve the non-LTSP NIC from ip route and then assign the LTSP NIC to the alternative NIC. In short, eth1 is not hard coded. Sorry, I must have misread that. Now the NIC code will work provided a

Cloning: FOG, dd, Clonezilla was Re: golden server

2009-08-02 Thread Gavin McCullagh
Hi, On Thu, 30 Jul 2009, R. Scott Belford wrote: For what it's worth, I manage all of my images with a Debian netbook running DRBL and Clonezilla. I can provide imaging services, fat client booting, thin-client booting, and net-installs to *any* computer that can pxe boot. Clonezilla is

Re: ltsp local apps + nat + ....

2009-07-26 Thread Gavin McCullagh
Hi, On Thu, 23 Jul 2009, Scott Balneaves wrote: https://edge.launchpad.net/~edubuntu-members/+members#active Heck: Gavin, who answers more questions on this list than anyone, isn't even a member! Gavin! What's up with that, dude? :) I don't mean to be smart, but what is the real

Re: Hiring Edubuntu Staff

2009-07-25 Thread Gavin McCullagh
Hi, On Thu, 23 Jul 2009, R. Scott Belford wrote: For what it is worth, it is now nearly a year since I tracked down every key Canonical employee I could find at Linuxworld 2008, both at the conference and at after-hours events, to communicate two messages: the state of Edubuntu and its User

ltsp local apps + nat + ....

2009-07-22 Thread Gavin McCullagh
Hi, I received some emails overnight offering an alternative (simpler?) setup for getting internet access to your thin client's local apps. http://www.suares.an/index.php?page_id=1news_id=253#news-top https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ThinClientHowtoNAT I'm not that convinced it's really

Re: Links in wiki

2009-07-22 Thread Gavin McCullagh
Hi, On Wed, 22 Jul 2009, Jordan Mantha wrote: And why is the page that Gavin made (https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ThinClientHowtoNAT) in CategoryCleanup? Mine is too becuase I used his page as an example. The problem is that wiki.ubuntu.com is not for user documentation, but rather

Re: help with installing browser and office as local apps on LTSP

2009-04-16 Thread Gavin McCullagh
Hi, please post to the list rather than me personally. More people can help that way. Also don't attach RTF files, just paste the data into the email so it's easier to read. On Thu, 16 Apr 2009, graydebo...@tiscali.co.uk wrote: Thanks for the advice. It appears that the server can get to

Re: Default Desktop and input method setting in Edubuntu

2009-04-16 Thread Gavin McCullagh
Hi, On Thu, 16 Apr 2009, Elanjelian Venugopal wrote: Whenever I create a new user, it appears, I need to yet again set the everything from the desktop, to resolution, to default fonts, to input method. (The default language is Tamil, and SCIM is used to type in Tamil characters.) Typically,

Re: help with installing browser and office as local apps on LTSP

2009-04-15 Thread Gavin McCullagh
On Wed, 15 Apr 2009, graydebo...@tiscali.co.uk wrote: Now I get stuck, sudo chroot /opt/ltsp/i386 apt-get install xterm runs OK but changing the command to sudo chroot /opt/ltsp/i386 apt-get install firefox or variations such as mozilla-firefox return couldn't find package firefox. You

Re: Which Squid?

2009-03-11 Thread Gavin McCullagh
On Tue, 10 Mar 2009, David Groos wrote: 2009/03/10 22:51:46| parseConfigFile: line 113 unrecognized: 'max_filedesc 0' My memory is a little hazy but I don't think this setting (which places no limit on the file descriptors) is only allowed in squid3, but not in squid 2.X. I think you need to

Re: Which Squid?

2009-03-08 Thread Gavin McCullagh
Hi, On Sun, 08 Mar 2009, David Groos wrote: I´ve got an Edubuntu/LTSP setup and I´m working on getting squid going and having quite a challenge with it--too much specialized/unknown vocabulary for me. I don´t need squid for caching of objects since I´m using thin clients, Huh? I'm not

Re: Fwd: nic with bootrom

2009-03-05 Thread Gavin McCullagh
Hi, On Thu, 05 Mar 2009, Jordan Mantha wrote: Ray, I'm forwarding your email on to the Edubuntu Users mailing list, they'll have much better suggestions than me. To the list, make sure to CC Ray as I'm not sure if he's subscribed or not, thanks. Martin Herweg certainly looked after us well:

Re: Server Suddenly Started Hunging up

2009-03-04 Thread Gavin McCullagh
Hi, On Tue, 03 Mar 2009, Nicolas Roussi wrote: I am guessing that it is. I recently configured a bind9 server on the network which is also the LDAP server but I disabled bind9. These are the files on the server that is not working. I have included hosts, hostname, interfaces, dhcpd.conf,

Re: Server Suddenly Started Hunging up

2009-03-03 Thread Gavin McCullagh
On Tue, 03 Mar 2009, Nicolas Roussi wrote: No I am not. Also, on every sudo command it takes forever. Is your DNS working okay? Gavin -- edubuntu-users mailing list edubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/edubuntu-users

Re: your mail

2009-01-25 Thread Gavin McCullagh
On Sun, 25 Jan 2009, Sergio Dicandia wrote: OK, now I installed DNSMasq and disabled dhcp3 on the server. I edited the .conf file to reflect my needs in terms of IP range and the like; service seems to be up, I can monitor the requests with tcpdump (I'll post the previous results asap), but

Re: DHCP server sometimes not found

2009-01-21 Thread Gavin McCullagh
Hi, On Wed, 21 Jan 2009, Sergio Dicandia wrote: No luck with DHCP ... it still doesn't give more than 4 (or 5 at best) addresses and then it freezes I did the tcpdump as suggested, you can find it attached ... I think you need to include it in plain text. That attachment seems not to

Re: Thin Client /etc/hosts entry

2009-01-15 Thread Gavin McCullagh
Hi, On Wed, 14 Jan 2009, M Rathburn wrote: This works perfectly Gavin! Thanks! Great. As Mickey suggests though, functioning DNS is really the way to do this. What I've described is a hack, which can be useful in various instances where you need to customise the image _post_ boot-up. We

Re: which release to use?

2009-01-15 Thread Gavin McCullagh
Hi, On Thu, 15 Jan 2009, David Van Assche wrote: Not really. For some reason moving from Gutsy to Hardy stopped fat clients from working. In Intrepid Ibex, things are working fine again. There are so many components that could be at fault, but I suspect udev and/or the rc sequence. I

Re: Firefox as local app and networking [SOLVED]

2009-01-13 Thread Gavin McCullagh
Hi, On Mon, 12 Jan 2009, M Rathburn wrote: Howdy. Still getting the same result here after following the updated directions. Reboot and can't see the internet. If I punch in the line: sudo iptables --table nat --append POSTROUTING --jump MASQUERADE --source 192.168.0.0/24 then it

Re: Firefox as local app and networking

2009-01-12 Thread Gavin McCullagh
Hi, On Sun, 11 Jan 2009, M Rathburn wrote: Edubuntu 8.10 amd64 I want to try to run Firefox as a local app on thin clients to see if things can be sped up (right clicks, listboxes, etc.). I have everything set up, unfortunately the thin client running Firefox locally cannot see the

Re: Firefox as local app and networking [SOLVED]

2009-01-12 Thread Gavin McCullagh
Hi, On Mon, 12 Jan 2009, M Rathburn wrote: The solution was to set on the LTSP server the option domain-name-servers in /etc/ltsp/dhcpd.conf to that of my internet router. Then, a static route was needed in the internet router for 192.168.0.0 - 192.168.1.25 for the traffic to get back. So

Re: Firefox as local app and networking [SOLVED]

2009-01-12 Thread Gavin McCullagh
Hi, On Mon, 12 Jan 2009, M Rathburn wrote: I backed out the old stuff, removed the static entry from my router, then followed the new HowTo and it works perfectly! Excellent. A practical test is a very good proofing. I'd like to have a howto which we can just point users at and expect that

Re: Firefox as local app and networking [SOLVED]

2009-01-12 Thread Gavin McCullagh
Hi, On Mon, 12 Jan 2009, M Rathburn wrote: I found a slight hiccup. I rebooted the server, and noticed that it's stopped working. I went and looked at the /etc/network/if-up.d/ltsp-nat file and can see the entry for '-A POSTROUTING -s 192.168.0.0/24 -j MASQUERADE'. I had to do the

issue where openoffice crashes thin clients

2009-01-09 Thread Gavin McCullagh
Hi, some time back we has people with issues where thin clients were being crashed by openoffice (and firefox). The issue came down to the application pushing large amounts of pixmap (image) data onto the X server. Pixmaps are large uncompressed images and in thin clients, the X server runs on

Re: DHCP server sometimes not found

2008-12-17 Thread Gavin McCullagh
Hi, On Wed, 17 Dec 2008, Sergio Dicandia wrote: Has anybody tried this with Intrepid ? Maybe they fixed it in the new release ... Several of the LTSP developers read this list so if they know of this problem and a fix to this, you may be sure they'll say. In the meantime, we need to

Re: Suggestions for preventing ultra-hi monitor resolution

2008-12-03 Thread Gavin McCullagh
Hi, On Tue, 02 Dec 2008, Tom Wolfe wrote: Any suggestions for how to prevent clients from having excessively high resolution, e.g. one of my clients ends up with 1920*1440 which is almost unreadable. I tried: [default] X_MODE_0 =1024x768 in /var/lib/tftpboot/ltsp/i386/lts.conf

Re: School in Swindon considering going Linux!

2008-12-02 Thread Gavin McCullagh
Hi, On Tue, 02 Dec 2008, norman wrote: I assume this is Swindon UK so why not post this in [EMAIL PROTECTED] That may be useful too, but there's naught wrong with posting here too, if he's proposing to use edubuntu. Not that many ubuntu users would have familiarity with ltsp. Gavin --

Re: Convincing a school district to migrate from OS X to Ubuntu or Edubuntu

2008-11-18 Thread Gavin McCullagh
Hi, On Mon, 17 Nov 2008, David McNally wrote: Please let me know what you think. Being realistic for a moment, I think you need to consider what the huge changes you propose that all your technicians and users would have to make, what the real benefit would be to those users and what problems

Re: [ILUG] Edubuntu in Primary school. Help needed.

2008-11-10 Thread Gavin McCullagh
Hi, On Mon, 10 Nov 2008, Paul Harrison wrote: We have 30 thin clients, a mix of Pentium 3s with 128MB ram and Pentium 4s with 512MB ram. Our server is a Dell precision with two Pentium Xeon 1.7GHz processors and 2GB ram. We have installed Ubuntu 8 Hardy Heron and the Edubuntu add-on package.

Re: Firehol and edubuntu.

2008-10-17 Thread Gavin McCullagh
Hi, On Fri, 17 Oct 2008, Ken Campbell wrote: I have set up an ubuntu server to act as proxy server (tinyproxy) and content filter(DansGuardian) for one of my elementary schools. The configuration off of the LTSP site utilizes firehol and works great for edubuntu thin clients on the lan

Re: PXE-E32: TFTP Open Timeout Error

2008-10-16 Thread Gavin McCullagh
On Wed, 15 Oct 2008, Ken Schreihofer wrote: I've tried several approaches, and have not as of yet been able to solve the boot. Would someone be able to shed some light on this problem for me? It sounds like dhcp server didn't start on boot (so you started it) and that openbsd-inetd didn't

Re: auto login

2008-10-14 Thread Gavin McCullagh
Hi, On Mon, 13 Oct 2008, Uwe Geercken wrote: danke fuer die schnelle antwort. Jede person auf die edubuntu-users list spricht Englisch. Nur wenige sprechen Deutsch. Auf Englisch bitte, Gavin :-) -- edubuntu-users mailing list edubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or

Re: how to use ipod suffle with ubuntu 7.04

2008-10-12 Thread Gavin McCullagh
Hi, On Sun, 12 Oct 2008, Denny Adisetyawan wrote: I have a friend have ipod suffle... but he cannot upload some music to his ipod suffle because my computer running Ubuntu 7.04. I want to help him but I can't Can anyone help me about this? A quick google search for ubuntu ipod shuffle

Re: fat client

2008-10-10 Thread Gavin McCullagh
Hi, this is interesting stuff. On Fri, 10 Oct 2008, David Van Assche wrote: I suppose I can put up a Hardy version on my website. Probably no harm. I suspect a lot of people will want to stick with hardy (I suspect intrepid suggests a lot of new stuff that might not be entirely stable yet).

Re: Adobe Acrobat Reader Super Slow

2008-10-08 Thread Gavin McCullagh
Hi, On Wed, 08 Oct 2008, Dean Mumby wrote: Gavin McCullagh wrote: Out of curiosity is there a reason you aren't using Evince, the standard gnome document viewer? It doesn't do a very good job of printing pdfs( font issues and funny lines and dots) even hough it is much faster

Re: system crawling....

2008-10-02 Thread Gavin McCullagh
Hi, On Wed, 01 Oct 2008, Luis Montes wrote: I wasn't able to authenticate on a text terminal either, so I couldn't run top to see what was going on. The disks weren't really spinning much either. Then about ten minutes later something freed up, and I'm in now. No idea what it was, but

Re: system crawling....

2008-10-02 Thread Gavin McCullagh
On Thu, 02 Oct 2008, Mickey Moore wrote: Is it possible that the primary DNS server is not responding and a timeout must occur each lookup before switching to the alternate? This type of external wait delay would not be affected by the speed of the 8x2GHZ system. Sounds very plausible

Re: system crawling....

2008-10-01 Thread Gavin McCullagh
Hi, On Wed, 01 Oct 2008, Luis Montes wrote: I have a school that's been down now for 2 days. It's an 8.04 edubuntu setup. Single server (8 core, 16 GB ram, 32 bit server kernel). Just using local user accounts and homes. The thing is taking a couple of minutes to authenticate. I just

Re: DVD playback

2008-09-22 Thread Gavin McCullagh
Hi, On Mon, 22 Sep 2008, Fabian Rodriguez wrote: Hmmm... no need to add third-party unsupported repositories for DVD playback in Hardy 8.04.1 LTS. Please see: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/RestrictedFormats/PlayingDVDs Ah, thanks for the correction! Gavin -- edubuntu-users

Re: 7.10 Gusty - Client Login not loading

2008-09-22 Thread Gavin McCullagh
Hi, On Mon, 22 Sep 2008, Mike White wrote: This gets me into a client login screen. Now I am unable to authenticate. I have already attempted sudo update-ltsp-sshkeys and sudo update-ltsp-image I presume you mean: sudo ltsp-update-image sudo

Re: DVD playback

2008-09-21 Thread Gavin McCullagh
Hi, On Sun, 21 Sep 2008, Vincent Yau wrote: When I tried to play DVD, the screens are all scrambled. These are legitimate DVDs I bought in stores. When I play the same DVD on my macbook, it works fine. Most movies sold on DVD are encrypted using a scheme called CSS. These is a library for

Re: Is it just me, or is LTSP a mess?

2008-09-10 Thread Gavin McCullagh
Hi, On Wed, 10 Sep 2008, Todd O'Bryan wrote: Because when students log back in after a freeze, their desktop appears without the top and bottom panels and they can't do anything until I slay them. Could you give us the output of ps aux |grep username for that username before you

Re: Installing LTSP from CD

2008-09-08 Thread Gavin McCullagh
Hi, On Mon, 08 Sep 2008, David Ally wrote: Please let's make this information complete, on the link below, it started with installing fresh from CD, but did not say anything about installing LTSP on a system that already has Ubuntu on it from CD. The command given normally download from

Re: Installing LTSP from CD

2008-09-08 Thread Gavin McCullagh
On Mon, 08 Sep 2008, Eric Morey wrote: On Mon, 2008-09-08 at 10:34 +0100, Gavin McCullagh wrote: I don't recommend putting this in the wiki, but I think this is the answer you want. Why not? I should've said without rewriting so it's clearer. I just dashed it off, I don't think it's

Re: Installing LTSP from CD

2008-09-08 Thread Gavin McCullagh
On Mon, 08 Sep 2008, Oliver Grawert wrote: edubuntu-desktop doesnt depend on ltsp ... to install ltsp from CDrom use the --mirror option to ltsp-build-client with the file:// protocol :) Of course not, sorry. Gavin -- edubuntu-users mailing list edubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com Modify

Re: How to dual boot to ltsp and windows xp

2008-09-04 Thread Gavin McCullagh
On Thu, 04 Sep 2008, Krsnendu dasa wrote: How can I set up some of my machines so there is an option of booting to Windows XP or ltsp. I have heard someone else has done it on this list. Can you give me some tips. When you pxe boot, syslinux starts up before the kernel loads. It can have a

Re: Urgent help request! was Re: how do you get something to run when a user logs on?

2008-09-01 Thread Gavin McCullagh
Hi, On Sun, 31 Aug 2008, john wrote: When I tried calling these scripts from /etc/X11/Xsession.d per Ollies suggestion the scripts didn't seem to run, and in fact after accepting my credentials X just sent me back to the login screen, perhaps my syntax was incorrect. But I couldn't find

Re: how do you kill a user's old processes when they try to log back on

2008-09-01 Thread Gavin McCullagh
On Fri, 29 Aug 2008, Todd O'Bryan wrote: As a follow-on to this question, is the XRAMPERC variable that was available in Gutsy still available in Hardy? I added a setting to /var/lib/tftpboot/ltsp/i386/lts.conf, but users could still crash their terminals by going to a particularly graphics

Re: Urgent help request! was Re: how do you get something to run when a user logs on?

2008-09-01 Thread Gavin McCullagh
Hi, as promised, a little more detail (I was a little busy earlier, sorry). On Sun, 31 Aug 2008, john wrote: This issue is I want to run some scripts that up until now have been called by /etc/profile. This has worked for me up through Edubuntu 7.04 The scripts use the system variables $HOME

Re: Childsplay hangs on exit

2008-08-26 Thread Gavin McCullagh
On Tue, 26 Aug 2008, Gavin McCullagh wrote: On Tue, 26 Aug 2008, Krsnendu dasa wrote: My server is 32 bit. I'll see if I can turn off the sound and see if that helps. if it does work, then try: sudo apt-get install libsdl1.2debian-all and see does that sort it out

Re: fat clients ssh into ltsp server

2008-08-25 Thread Gavin McCullagh
On Sun, 24 Aug 2008, Patrick McKnight wrote: I am setting up an ltsp server but somehow I have run into a novel problem. I have several machines that are stand-alone workstations that boot off their own hard drives. I want to be able to access the hardware on those systems as well as allow

Re: Childsplay hangs on exit

2008-08-25 Thread Gavin McCullagh
Hi, On Mon, 25 Aug 2008, Olle Englund wrote: Yes, having the same problem. The screen freezes after pressing j (y) to exit. The only solution is to press ctrl+alt+del or switch to console to terminate the process. The server is x64 - was yours, Krsnendu dasa? I think this is the same issue

Re: Apps hanging around.

2008-08-24 Thread Gavin McCullagh
Hi, On Sat, 23 Aug 2008, Luis Montes wrote: It looks like watchdog or xterminator will help for the cases when apps are still there on after logging out. But right now I can't even close some windows while still logged in. On a fully patched 8.04, if I can't even seem to close SDL apps

Re: Apps hanging around.

2008-08-24 Thread Gavin McCullagh
Hi, On Sun, 24 Aug 2008, Luis Montes wrote: Looks like I can close the apps when clearing those env variables. This worked for both wesnoth and tuxpaint. Okay. We should probably get a bug reported in launchpad. As I recall, last time this was brought up, we concluded that it was against

Re: Edubuntu Remote Desktop Issue

2008-08-23 Thread Gavin McCullagh
Hi, On Sat, 23 Aug 2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:   Last weekend, I had to move the physical VMware server to its original location, and everything was shutdown gracefully, including all VM's.  When I powered back up, I could no longer connect the the Edubuntu workstations, and I cannot find

Re: Hi guys, I have problem with Firefox

2008-08-22 Thread Gavin McCullagh
Hi, On Fri, 22 Aug 2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Vu Nguyen schrieb: I have problem with Firefox when I logon to Ubuntu LTSP (server) and on the think client with the same user name. What looks like a logon at a client is a logon at the server so you are logged on twice at the same

Re: ltsp5 boot process

2008-08-20 Thread Gavin McCullagh
On Tue, 19 Aug 2008, Rudy Gevaert wrote: Where can I found ´the code' that shows me how the thin client configures itselves? Most of it the configuration is done by this script: -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 2564 2006-10-22 10:56 /opt/ltsp/i386/etc/init.d/ltsp-client More specifically I want to

Re: Software Raid

2008-08-01 Thread Gavin McCullagh
Hi, On Thu, 31 Jul 2008, Uwe Geercken wrote: at the time I setup the system, I have used one harddisk for the system and one for the home directories of the students. so these are on seperate drives. What sizes are the respective drives? Are they IDE, SATA, SCSI? I am now thinking

Re: Desktop Install - Central Login ??

2008-07-31 Thread Gavin McCullagh
Hi, On Thu, 31 Jul 2008, Mon Sagullo wrote: I just recently plunged into 40 very fat clients for our new lab in school:-) Kindly correct me if I am wrong, but can I make a list of users - students with their respective log-in names and password - on one desktop, then copy this

clients boot to busybox ... was Re: edubuntu-users Digest, Vol 26, Issue 18

2008-07-27 Thread Gavin McCullagh
Hi, On Sat, 26 Jul 2008, David Ally wrote: The DHCP problem is resolved, but i'm having BusyBox prompt on the thin clients instead of loading the splash and gdm. Please help me. You might want to try rebuilding the client setup. sudo ltsp-build-client sudo ltsp-update-image

(fwd) sis7019 on thin client embedded

2008-07-24 Thread Gavin McCullagh
- Forwarded message from brooke merkin [EMAIL PROTECTED] - From: brooke merkin [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: sis7019 on thin client embedded To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Thu, 24 Jul 2008 13:58:34 -0400 Content-Type: multipart/alternative;

Re: root password for sabayon

2008-07-23 Thread Gavin McCullagh
Hi, On Tue, 22 Jul 2008, Barb A. Tabor wrote: I installed sabayon and it didn't ask me to set up a root password, but now is asking for one. Is there a default root password? What exactly is asking (ie what are you doing when you get asked)? Ubuntu doesn't have a root password by default.

(fwd) root password for sabayon

2008-07-23 Thread Gavin McCullagh
- Forwarded message from Barb A. Tabor [EMAIL PROTECTED] - From: Barb A. Tabor [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: root password for sabayon To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Wed, 23 Jul 2008 09:45:27 -0400 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary==_alternative 004B9C9E8525748F_= Gavin: I have an

Re: Desktop Install - Central Login ??

2008-07-21 Thread Gavin McCullagh
Hi, On Mon, 21 Jul 2008, David Stalane wrote: I want the kids to be able to log in from any machine in the lab I want the teachers to be able to log in from any machine in the school Thin clients would be a very quick way to do this, but installed desktops have their advantages too. Do I

Re: Desktop Install - Central Login ??

2008-07-21 Thread Gavin McCullagh
Hi, On Mon, 21 Jul 2008, David Stalane wrote: The reason I think I'll do full desktop installs is that all the PC's are identical and the spec is not good enough for a server and too good for thin client (they had bought the gear already)...I don't want to cannibalize the existing machines

Re: DHCP on 2nic system problem

2008-07-20 Thread Gavin McCullagh
On Sat, 19 Jul 2008, David Ally wrote: I know some earlier adopters will have noticed this problem, I install Edubuntu classroom server on a system that has 2 nic cards with LTSP activated, but it is just not giving out IP addresses to the clients. I have followes some links on ubuntu forum

Re: application prefered

2008-07-17 Thread Gavin McCullagh
Hi, On Thu, 17 Jul 2008, mario salcedo wrote: Hi, anybody know how I can change the text editor prefered. I prefer to use vim but when I use visudo, this open vi. Make sure vim is actually installed and put: export EDITOR=vim into .bashrc in your home directory. Next time you run

Re: Edubuntu Install Issue

2008-07-15 Thread Gavin McCullagh
Hi, On Tue, 15 Jul 2008, Matt Georgetti wrote: when I go to install it on a PC it tells me that the software I am using is for X86 machines and that I am running a machine with an i1586 processor. Both of the machines that I have tried (A Dell GX240 and AcerPower F2) have P4 processors. To

Re: Firefox pixmap cache to X11 bug reported to bugzilla

2008-07-09 Thread Gavin McCullagh
Hi, On Thu, 06 Sep 2007, Jim Kronebusch wrote: I was notified that reporting this bug to launchpad was most likely not an appropriate place since a fix would need to come from farther upstream than Ubuntu. So I posted the following bug to bugzilla which is the standard bug reporting

Re: Firefox pixmap cache to X11 bug reported to bugzilla

2008-07-09 Thread Gavin McCullagh
Hi, On Wed, 09 Jul 2008, Gavin McCullagh wrote: In case anyone's interested, there was some interesting news on this bug today. Francis Robichaud has written a patch for firefox which apparently causes it to resize an image to its HTML dictated size if the HTML size is smaller than

Re: What version of Edubuntu will you run this fall, and why?

2008-07-09 Thread Gavin McCullagh
Hi, On Wed, 09 Jul 2008, john wrote: I am trying to figure out if I want to iterate this summer. Its taken me nearly a year to get the kinks in 7.04 adjusted to the kinks on our lan and I am really loath to go through that again. Could you give us an idea what sort of customisations you had

Re: Spare ethernet card prevents thin client from booting

2008-07-08 Thread Gavin McCullagh
Hi, On Mon, 07 Jul 2008, Dan Moore wrote: I have two ethernet cards in a machine that dual boots into Windows and a Hardy Heron thin client. When I disconnect the cable from ethernet card that is plugged into a PCI slot, and boot LTS from the motherboard's NIC, the machine can't boot. If I

Re: Spare ethernet card prevents thin client from booting

2008-07-08 Thread Gavin McCullagh
Hi, On Tue, 08 Jul 2008, Greg Reagle wrote: I have experienced an Edubuntu server (version 6.06 I think) with two Ethernet devices that is not consistent about which one it calls eth0 and which one it calls eth1. I can't recall if it was in 6.06, but there was definitely a tweak in (I

Re: Server Suggestion Request

2008-06-30 Thread Gavin McCullagh
Hi, On Sun, 29 Jun 2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: specifically, i'm thinking about this one... http://configure.us.dell.com/dellstore/config.aspx?c=uscs=04kc=6W300l=enoc=bedw42hs=bsdfb=1 which is on sale from dell. i could upgrade from the 1.86 GHz to the 2.13 GHz pretty painlessly if it

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