Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Secure ALL data between the thin client and the LTSP server

2014-03-12 Thread Oliver Grawert
Am Mittwoch, den 12.03.2014, 08:44 +0400 schrieb Oleg: On Wed, Mar 12, 2014 at 12:12:41AM +0400, Denis Croombs wrote: I would like to secure the network traffic between the thin client (PC booted from the LTSP server) using SSL or SSH to block any man in the middle attack, but cannot find

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Can't log on - Keine Antwort des Servers, Neustart ...

2013-04-03 Thread Oliver Grawert
hi, On Mi, 2013-04-03 at 11:10 +0200, Rolf-Werner Eilert wrote: I don't know Debian, but you should be able to add users to your system, the command is useradd. I don't know if Debian claims you to add a standard user, maybe you have only a root user on your system yet? never ever use

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Can't log on - Keine Antwort des Servers, Neustart ...

2013-04-03 Thread Oliver Grawert
hi, On Mi, 2013-04-03 at 14:11 +0200, linux-u...@gmx.com wrote: ... So, this looks quite fine I guess ... except Read failed: Inappropriate ioctl for device check ~/.xsession-errors of the user on the server ... and also /var/log/auth.log ciao oli signature.asc Description: This is a

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] KDE4 change default settings for users

2012-09-04 Thread Oliver Grawert
hi, Am Dienstag, den 04.09.2012, 11:45 +0100 schrieb Chris Roberts: On Tuesday 04 Sep 2012, Todd O'Bryan wrote: Thanks. I was hoping there was a less tedious way, but I guess not... You only have to do it once for /etc/skel contents of /etc/skel are only copied at user (well, home dir)

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] X_COLOR_DEPTH=16 by default for thin clients

2012-03-26 Thread Oliver Grawert
hi, On Mon, 26 Mar 2012 12:44:04 +0300 Alkis Georgopoulos alk...@gmail.com wrote: What's the negative side of making that the default, so that the average user wouldn't have to read all lts.conf options, detect that one, create an lts.conf and set it there, before enjoying its speed benefits?

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] X_COLOR_DEPTH=16 by default for thin clients

2012-03-26 Thread Oliver Grawert
hi, On Mon, 26 Mar 2012 15:14:02 +0300 Alkis Georgopoulos alk...@gmail.com wrote: 2) X without a -depth parameter at all. and if that wouldnt work this would be a reason to shout at the xorg devs and file a bug, xorg autodetects the depth from the EDID data the panel/screen provides. ciao

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] X_COLOR_DEPTH=16 by default for thin clients

2012-03-26 Thread Oliver Grawert
hi, On Mon, 26 Mar 2012 15:23:35 +0300 Alkis Georgopoulos alk...@gmail.com wrote: Oli the hardcoded X_COLOR_DEPTH=16 was removed in commit http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~ltsp-upstream/ltsp/ltsp-trunk/revision/979 with no bug reports mentioned. oops, then i remembered it the wrong way round,

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] will Wayland affect LTSP?

2010-11-16 Thread Oliver Grawert
hi, Am Montag, den 15.11.2010, 20:39 -0500 schrieb Rob Owens: Unity and Wayland are different things. Wayland is a potential replacement for X (with a different set of features), while Unity is a GUI with which Ubuntu plans to replace Gnome as their default. wrong, unity replaces *gnome-shell*

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] HP t5325, ARM, gPXE

2010-05-23 Thread Oliver Grawert
Am Mittwoch, den 28.04.2010, 08:27 -0400 schrieb ekul taylor: A 1.2 GHz Marvell is almost certainly one of their newer ARMADA chips which does use ARMv7 instructions as identified earlier in this thread its a kirkwood based v5 CPU: Processor : ARM926EJ-S rev 1 (v5l) Hardware:

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] HP t5325, ARM, gPXE

2010-04-29 Thread Oliver Grawert
hi, Am Mittwoch, den 28.04.2010, 23:35 +0200 schrieb JF Straeten: On Wed, Apr 28, 2010 at 10:24:31AM -0700, Vagrant Cascadian wrote: If anybody has any more ideas I would love to hear them. [...] then all you need to do is figure out how to network boot... Do we know which

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] HP t5325, ARM, gPXE

2010-04-28 Thread Oliver Grawert
hi, Am Dienstag, den 27.04.2010, 15:34 -0600 schrieb David Burgess: I just picked up a couple HP t5325 for testing. http://h10010.www1.hp.com/wwpc/us/en/sm/WF05a/12454-12454-321959-338927-3640405-4063703.html?jumpid=oc_R1002_USENC-001_HP%20t5325%20Thin%20Clientlang=encc=us sadly that doesnt

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] LXDE configuration

2010-02-25 Thread Oliver Grawert
hi, Am Donnerstag, den 25.02.2010, 08:18 -0700 schrieb David Burgess: Open /etc/X11/gdm/gdm.conf in a text editor and find the [greeter] not existing in ubuntu anymore since two releases ... Now edit /etc/inittab not existing anymore in ubuntu since the dapper release, beyond ... ... This will

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] remote desktop to the actual ltsp server

2010-01-13 Thread Oliver Grawert
hi, Am Mittwoch, den 13.01.2010, 13:42 +0100 schrieb Jakob Unterwurzacher: Hmm. When you use ssh -X something this will only spawn one window but not the whole desktop. we used to do: ssh -X u...@server gnome-session in the very first iterations of LTSP5 development, that should still work

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] LTSP5 (MUEKOW) source?

2009-12-25 Thread Oliver Grawert
Am Donnerstag, den 10.12.2009, 23:25 -0500 schrieb Mark: New guy here, be gentle. So where does one get the source for LTSP5? I'm trying to put together a server using Arch as my preferred distro. It's different enough that I can't just lift code from Ubuntu or Redhat. I can build from

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] splash

2009-12-18 Thread Oliver Grawert
hi, Am Donnerstag, den 17.12.2009, 19:43 +0800 schrieb jam: G'day all I would like to have my own spash image (product branding) karmic's xsplash is easy (to understand and to change). ltsp looks much more complex. All the reading I can find is about *changing* to another splash but not

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Kernel call returned: Broken Pipe Reconnecting

2009-10-20 Thread Oliver Grawert
hi, Am Dienstag, den 20.10.2009, 09:55 +0300 schrieb Fatih ER: As i said there are some error messages and one is : IO APIC resources could not be allocated - to solve this i've edited /opt/ ltsp/i386/pxelinux.cfg/default and added noapic nolapic which doesn't changed anything.. wrong

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] LTSP using ARM based thin clients

2009-10-05 Thread Oliver Grawert
hi, Am Mittwoch, den 30.09.2009, 11:14 -0400 schrieb adnaan jiwaji: Hi, If we use XFCE as a windows manager can we run LTSP using ARM based thin clients? that really depends on your hardware, in ubuntu i added basic support for imx51 based devices, but not for anything more. you need a

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Slow Right Click in Firefox

2009-09-25 Thread Oliver Grawert
hi, Am Freitag, den 25.09.2009, 12:34 +0300 schrieb Anton Vaaranmaa: With NX (FreeNX) this not occurs! Whatever issues there are that causes rejection of NX better be dealth with instead of keeping the status quo. NX works - and works fast - day in and day out - and that's what matters to

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Slow Right Click in Firefox

2009-09-25 Thread Oliver Grawert
hi, Am Freitag, den 25.09.2009, 12:56 +0200 schrieb Stefan Below: Oliver Grawert schrieb: comparing the speed of NX with its insecure and outdated snapshot of the old included xlibs with recent implementations of xcb is somewhat like comparing netscape 2 with firefox 3.5 :) ... And i think

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Slow Right Click in Firefox

2009-09-25 Thread Oliver Grawert
hi, Am Freitag, den 25.09.2009, 08:55 -0400 schrieb Jim McQuillan: As for Oliver's comments, I agree with everything he said except the part about ltsp developers had to drop the ball well, i should have been more specific ... what i indeed meant is: drop the ball on the concept of maintining

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Slow Right Click in Firefox

2009-09-25 Thread Oliver Grawert
hi, Am Freitag, den 25.09.2009, 09:11 -0400 schrieb Gerald Drouillard: Anton Vaaranmaa wrote: I for one am grateful this thing was fixed. My only complaint is about the fixed stuff not making the mainstream update repository. Wishing a nice weekend to all, Here, here. The

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Slow Right Click in Firefox

2009-09-25 Thread Oliver Grawert
hi, Am Freitag, den 25.09.2009, 15:06 +0200 schrieb Stefan Below: I dont't blame or call any developers 'silly'. what i tried to say is that the comparison lacks a bit. Yes, the nx package uses _old_ libs , but they do the same like the new ones (what we need for ltsp/nx). if they would do

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] can't seem to force a resolution

2009-09-08 Thread Oliver Grawert
hi, Am Dienstag, den 08.09.2009, 10:47 -0600 schrieb David Burgess: X_VERTREFRESH=60 you need a range, X_VERTREFRESH ignores fixed numbers (unless something significantly changed recently) ciao oli signature.asc Description: Dies ist ein digital signierter Nachrichtenteil

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Cleaning up Processes - My Solution

2009-08-20 Thread Oliver Grawert
Am Mittwoch, den 19.08.2009, 15:13 -0700 schrieb Jordan Erickson: *cough https://help.ubuntu.com/community/UbuntuLTSP/GnomeWatchdog cough* *sneeze LDM_LIMIT_ONE_SESSION, LDM_LIMIT_ONE_SESSION_PROMPT sneeze * ;) ciao oli signature.asc Description: Dies ist ein digital signierter

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] nbd and squashfs errors while lts.conf having no effect

2009-08-20 Thread Oliver Grawert
hi, Am Mittwoch, den 19.08.2009, 15:58 -0300 schrieb Osvaldo Filho: +++-=-=-== un squashfs-source nenhuma (nenhuma descrição disponível) did you use it when

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] nbd and squashfs errors while lts.conf having no effect

2009-08-20 Thread Oliver Grawert
hi, Am Donnerstag, den 20.08.2009, 11:18 +0300 schrieb Shahar Or: Sorry, I didn't built it from source. I just used ltsp-build-client like I did several times before and like most users do. i didnt refer to ltsp but to the squashfs-source package you apparently had installed on yor system before

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] nbd and squashfs errors while lts.conf having no effect

2009-08-20 Thread Oliver Grawert
hi, Am Donnerstag, den 20.08.2009, 11:53 +0300 schrieb Shahar Or: On Thu, Aug 20, 2009 at 11:33 AM, Oliver Grawerto...@ubuntu.com wrote: i didnt refer to ltsp but to the squashfs-source package you apparently had installed on yor system before ... I didn't, Oliver. Never had. Perhaps

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] nbd and squashfs errors while lts.conf having no effect

2009-08-20 Thread Oliver Grawert
Am Donnerstag, den 20.08.2009, 13:10 -0300 schrieb Osvaldo Filho: un squashfs-source nenhuma nenhuma NOT Installed doesnt matter, its source code for a module, if it was ever built the module might still be there, no matter if the package containing the sourcecode is

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Need information on Ubuntu Kernel with Ubuntu Desktop for LTSP

2009-07-29 Thread Oliver Grawert
hi, On Mi, 2009-07-29 at 08:36 +0800, jam wrote: or 64G RAM with AFAIK PAE paging thats what the ubuntu -server kernel flavour uses by default ... ciao oli signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] How to get Xubuntu boot screen for LTSP Clients

2009-07-20 Thread Oliver Grawert
hi, On Mo, 2009-07-20 at 12:39 +0530, Avinash Rao wrote: LTSP is working, but when the LTSP client boots, the boot screen is the one that Ubuntu Desktop Edition uses, the orange one! How do i get the Blue XUbuntu Boot screen for LTSP clients? from the top of my head: 1) install the xubuntu

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] How to get Xubuntu boot screen for LTSP Clients

2009-07-20 Thread Oliver Grawert
hi, On Mo, 2009-07-20 at 13:56 +0530, Avinash Rao wrote: Oliver, I did what u said but it didnot work. As i mentioned in my previous email. The login screen is XUbuntu only, the background image and theme in XUbuntu. But the boot screen in the beginning that is when the LTSP Client boots it

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Problem with Fujitsu-Siemens Futro A255

2009-06-24 Thread Oliver Grawert
hi, On Di, 2009-06-23 at 15:47 +0300, Eero Lemmelä wrote: Problem with our Futro A255 thin clients is that they start to freeze randomly one by one when they are under use. By freezing I mean that the client becomes totally unresponsive and the display freezes. the geode drivers

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] lts.conf not loaded (Ubuntu 9.04 Jaunty)

2009-06-09 Thread Oliver Grawert
hi, Am Dienstag, den 09.06.2009, 16:46 +0200 schrieb Peter Stein: that wrong. Is there anything I can do: E.g. on the dhcp so the lts.conf is going to be loaded? the script grabs teh filename parameter from dhcp and simply attaches /lts.conf to it ... and then tries to tftp teh file from this

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] LTSP: Ioct1/1.1a failed:Bad file descriptor

2009-05-15 Thread Oliver Grawert
hi, Am Freitag, den 15.05.2009, 09:59 +0200 schrieb Peter Stein: Did you add the ssh keys for the machine you want to log in? wrong ssh keys would make LDM display the This workstation is not authorized message... ciao oli signature.asc Description: Dies ist ein digital signierter

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] LTSP: Ioct1/1.1a failed:Bad file descriptor

2009-05-14 Thread Oliver Grawert
hi, Am Donnerstag, den 14.05.2009, 11:03 -0400 schrieb Carl: I am still puzzled why I am having so much trouble with LTSP this time around, is there something I should have done to install ltsp on server edition as opposed to desktop edition of Ubuntu (which is what my test was running on)

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Shutdown Of Intel D945GCLF2 Workstations From LDM

2009-05-07 Thread Oliver Grawert
hi, Am Mittwoch, den 06.05.2009, 11:08 -0700 schrieb Jordan Erickson: I took a look in the ldm source code and it looks like what you want fixed is line 98 from greeter.c: g_spawn_command_line_async(/sbin/poweroff -p, error); i implemented that originally as poweroff -fp, someone recently

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] LTSP 6.0 misses 2009-04-01 release date

2009-04-02 Thread Oliver Grawert
hi, Am Mittwoch, den 01.04.2009, 17:22 -0700 schrieb Vagrant Cascadean: * Minimum hardware requirements significantly reduced from earlier versions: 8MB of ram, 25MHz processor. putting the *thin* back in thin-client. note that if we are done with our kernel rewrite [1], ubuntu will even

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] very slow

2009-03-31 Thread Oliver Grawert
hi, Am Dienstag, den 31.03.2009, 08:11 -0400 schrieb Michael Blinn: Werner: You may also double-check your DNS settings - not being able to reverse-lookup the IP of the client will making booting and most operation very sluggish. operations that rely on reverse DNS ... currently thats only

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] ARM Architecture Support

2009-03-05 Thread Oliver Grawert
hi, Am Freitag, den 27.02.2009, 08:01 +0400 schrieb Graham Innes: I saw this clip yesterday: http://osnews.com/story/21031/ARM_Shows_Prototype_Netbooks (espeicially the segment starting at 2:50) and thought these cheap, light, low-power ARM-based devices would make fantastic thin clients.

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] latest ltsp for Ubuntu Hardy?

2009-02-12 Thread Oliver Grawert
hi, On Do, 2009-02-12 at 08:17 +0900, jam wrote: My CentOS and SuSE clients are a Hardy chroot. In fact my VIA EPIA clients do run on that, but in later chroots the graphics chokes. So in general WHY NOT. The chroot has nothing to do with the host James well, some of the features do, we

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Startup browser size for Firefox in kiosk mode

2009-02-10 Thread Oliver Grawert
hi, On Mo, 2009-02-09 at 13:32 -0700, r...@sailingthroughlife.net wrote: I figured out how to get X started in 800x600 mode but getting the Firefox browser to take up the whole screen is eluding me. I've tried the command line in /opt/ltsp/i386/home/kiosk/.xsession

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] LTSP boot server != ltsp server

2009-01-29 Thread Oliver Grawert
hi, Am Donnerstag, den 29.01.2009, 15:45 -0500 schrieb Dimitry Golubovsky: JF, On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 3:19 PM, JF Straeten jfstrae...@scarlet.be wrote: But now, I begin to think that you could also well be after something different, like : - a boot server (providing the kernel and

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] updating the chroot -- LTSP documentation question

2009-01-23 Thread Oliver Grawert
hi, Am Freitag, den 23.01.2009, 15:12 -0500 schrieb Rob Owens: Per http://www.ltsp.org/~sbalneav/LTSPManual.html#updating-chroot, the instructions for updating the chroot on a Debian system are: sudo chroot /opt/ltsp/i386 sudo apt-get update (I don't think sudo is needed, though, since you

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] updating the chroot -- LTSP documentation question

2009-01-23 Thread Oliver Grawert
hi, If you forgot to umount it, return to the chroot and umount /proc, if it failed, you can reboot the computer. you can just unmount /opt/ltsp/i386/proc if you are not in the chroot, no prob at all :) you should just not keep it mounted ... ciao oli signature.asc Description: Dies

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Power Management for individual clients

2008-11-30 Thread Oliver Grawert
hi, Am Samstag, den 29.11.2008, 21:05 +0200 schrieb Anton Vaaranmaa: Question is: how do I power off harddisks for these two thin clients only? (It would not hurt either to know how to power manage things like monitors..) i would suggest creating an initscript in your chroot, make it read an

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Commercial LTSP 5 Options

2008-11-21 Thread Oliver Grawert
hi, Am Donnerstag, den 20.11.2008, 20:23 -0600 schrieb Peter Scheie: Oliver Grawert wrote: Am Donnerstag, den 20.11.2008, 10:08 -0600 schrieb [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Are any distributions supporting LTSP 5 in their enterprise level offerings? Biggest thing that we're curious about would

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Commercial LTSP 5 Options

2008-11-20 Thread Oliver Grawert
Am Donnerstag, den 20.11.2008, 10:08 -0600 schrieb [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Are any distributions supporting LTSP 5 in their enterprise level offerings? Biggest thing that we're curious about would be security updates for more than 3 years. ubuntu LTS (8.04) gets support for 3 years for LTSP and

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Multiple clients - differents nbd images, needed RW access on NBD

2008-11-04 Thread Oliver Grawert
hi, Am Montag, den 03.11.2008, 23:00 +0100 schrieb Martin Vuk: Hi Ernesto, Ok, I think I found it on Ubuntu. Once you have created ext3 NBD image, you should check scripts in /usr/share/initramfs-tools/ I think it is /usr/share/initramfs-tools/scripts/ltsp_nbd you should tweak lines

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] LTSP 5, LDM Autologin and poweroff

2008-11-04 Thread Oliver Grawert
hi, Am Montag, den 03.11.2008, 11:14 -0500 schrieb Gideon Romm: acpid is not installed in a default chroot. it definately is in ubuntu, not sure what chroot you look at though, but ltsp-client depends on it since hardy (i'm not sure, but i think it was like that even in gutsy) ciao oli

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] LTSP 5 Ubuntu and Server hardening

2008-10-16 Thread Oliver Grawert
hi, Am Donnerstag, den 16.10.2008, 14:24 -0400 schrieb Rob Owens: I think the main issue here is that LTSP 5 requires the use of ssh, and it requires some relatively relaxed security settings -- in particular, it requires that you allow password authentication. thats a mis-assumption, there are

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] change resolution -- lts.conf file

2008-10-16 Thread Oliver Grawert
hi, Am Donnerstag, den 16.10.2008, 22:05 +0200 schrieb David Van Assche: Hi, You now have to switch X configuration on in order to get video stuff to work in lts.conf: X_CONFIGURE=True note that this its only true for teh upcoming releases, namely ubuntu intrepid (8.10), debian lenny and

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] LTSP 5 Ubuntu and Server hardening

2008-10-15 Thread Oliver Grawert
hi, Am Mittwoch, den 15.10.2008, 12:29 +0100 schrieb Gavin McCullagh: I suggested this be done some time ago for all users: https://blueprints.launchpad.net/ltsp/+spec/dedicated-ltsp-sshd As it's low priority, it hasn't really happened though. note that SSH_OVERRIDE_PORT in lts.conf is

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Thin clients a failure? I need to defend it.....help me plz

2008-10-14 Thread Oliver Grawert
hi, Am Samstag, den 11.10.2008, 07:40 +0530 schrieb Arun SAG: I am doing a toy project (not a project at all).In which i am going to use LTSP and make some computers to boot from lan (thin clients)..But my head of the department is not even interested in that, he keep saying that,thin clients

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Devon 6040b with Intrepid

2008-10-14 Thread Oliver Grawert
hi, Am Dienstag, den 14.10.2008, 14:50 -0400 schrieb Patrick Rady: Anyone know if the Devon 6040b is compatible with ltsp 4.2? As a follow-up. Just for fun... I tried to boot up a 6040b with LTSP 5.x on Ubuntu-Intrepid (beta). It didn't have a happy ending. A variety of error messages,

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] custom ltsp5 kernel instructions

2008-10-14 Thread Oliver Grawert
hi, Am Dienstag, den 14.10.2008, 14:43 -0700 schrieb Slawek Drabot: Sorry to repost, but I have not received any replies to the original. I'm hoping that the recent documentation threads may stimulate a response. I'm looking for detailed instructions on how to build a custom kernel (initrd

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] LTSP5 and freenx testing, continued

2008-10-06 Thread Oliver Grawert
hi, On Mo, 2008-10-06 at 07:54 -0400, Rob Owens wrote: I think this would be a great addition to LTSP. How do we go about getting this incorporated into LTSP 5? (Once it's all working properly, of course). the thing is that you will never see teh freenx binary packages enter a proper

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Helping Ubuntu/LTSP get bugfixes pushed to LTS

2008-10-04 Thread Oliver Grawert
hi, On Mi, 2008-10-01 at 13:59 -0700, Jordan Erickson wrote: All, mrooney in #ubuntu-bugs pointed this blog post by Laserjock to me - I think this is really what we all need to focus on if we want a better Hardy. We *all* need to put effort into the processes in order for this to work as

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] A crisis of Ubuntu faith.

2008-10-04 Thread Oliver Grawert
hi, On Do, 2008-10-02 at 10:34 -0400, Rob Owens wrote: Oliver Grawert wrote: release for more than 18 months, so the LTS releases were created (with 3 years of security support for desktops, 5 for servers), ubuntu Oliver, I've never found an answer to this but maybe you know: How

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Ubuntu install problems

2008-10-04 Thread Oliver Grawert
hi, On Fr, 2008-09-26 at 14:41 -0400, Patrick Rady wrote: If you installed VMWare Server after installing LTSP, VMWare will remove xinetd and replace it with something else, I recall... I have had this botch up things on Ubuntu 8.04.1 before. You just just need to reinstall xinetd. VMWare

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] A crisis of Ubuntu faith.

2008-10-02 Thread Oliver Grawert
On Mi, 2008-10-01 at 21:03 -0400, Patrick Rady wrote: What about debian-testing...? it is turning into debian-stable this month (was supposed to happen last month, but apparently hevy enough bugs showed up in the testing release that debian delayed turning it into stable again) the debian

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] A crisis of Ubuntu faith.

2008-10-01 Thread Oliver Grawert
hi, On Mi, 2008-10-01 at 19:48 -0400, Patrick Rady wrote: I guess I'm feeling a little burned by Hardy Heron. Perhaps I am confused by the concept of the LTS version- but it seems like the LTS concept is kind of pointless for desktop versions. I understand a long-term support version of a

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Ubuntu install problems

2008-09-24 Thread Oliver Grawert
hi, On Di, 2008-09-23 at 22:57 -0600, David Burgess wrote: If memory serves, you have to go into the tftpd-hpa config file (/etc/default/tftpd-hpa?) and uncomment the line about it running as a daemon, i.e., please dont, tftpd-hpa has to be run by inetd to properly serve ltsp, it is set up

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Localdev recognition

2008-09-17 Thread Oliver Grawert
hi, On Mi, 2008-09-17 at 13:04 +0200, Helmut Lichtenberg wrote: thanks for this good advice, I will follow it. How will this be handled in future releases? Am I the first who had this problem? well, usually cdpinger cares for cdroms of any kind, but apparently there is a bug we are just

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Localdev recognition

2008-09-17 Thread Oliver Grawert
hi, On Mi, 2008-09-17 at 15:13 +0200, Xavier Brochard wrote: cdpinger doesn't detect audiocd it works using local shell and manually mounting (with -t auto option) it isnt (and was never) supposed to, for audio playback you need to adjust a lot more than filesystem access :) it will become an

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Localdev recognition

2008-09-17 Thread Oliver Grawert
hi, On Mi, 2008-09-17 at 15:32 +0200, Helmut Lichtenberg wrote: Why do you go the cdpinger way and take udev as a workaround. Isn't udev the most generic solution? (Maybe you have a link to an already lead discussion.) it requires IOCTL's to handle the cd in the drive, udev can only see device

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Bootproblem eth1

2008-09-16 Thread Oliver Grawert
hi, On Di, 2008-09-16 at 09:44 +0200, Helmut Lichtenberg wrote: We have some levigo (LTC830) thin client with a buggy BIOS, that prevents to switch off the internal RJ45-Network-Card. As we have a fibre optic network, we have to use PCI-based NICs. These levigos load the image (Ubuntu 8.04

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Bootproblem eth1

2008-09-16 Thread Oliver Grawert
hi, On Di, 2008-09-16 at 13:28 +0200, Helmut Lichtenberg wrote: Oliver Grawert schrieb am 16. Sep 2008 um 12:44:49 CEST: there are two options: create an /opt/ltsp/i386/etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net.rules file and force the MAC of the client NIC to be eth0 (for the syntax have

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Messaging on LTSP 5

2008-09-10 Thread Oliver Grawert
hi, On Mi, 2008-09-10 at 09:11 +0200, Keith wrote: Hi there, 1. How can I, as the class teacher, type a message from my terminal and send it to all the children who are logged in to explain that they must logout in 5 minutes? use http://italc.sourceforge.net/ ciao oli

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Need help configuring dhcpd.conf for i386 and imac G3

2008-09-03 Thread Oliver Grawert
On Mi, 2008-09-03 at 11:33 -0400, Rob Owens wrote: If you plan on booting a Mac thin client, I think you need to. The default is to create a chroot environment capable of booting i386-type machines. I don't have any experience booting Mac thin clients, though, so maybe others here would be

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] local usb but not hdd

2008-08-27 Thread Oliver Grawert
hi, On Mi, 2008-08-27 at 07:35 +0200, Helmut Lichtenberg wrote: I'm not glad about this ugly hardcoded fix but see no way to configure it (in lts.conf) for certain machines, where I want to provide the hard disks. it used to be without checks for removable devices in teh original

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] local usb but not hdd

2008-08-27 Thread Oliver Grawert
hi, On Mi, 2008-08-27 at 14:50 +0200, Helmut Lichtenberg wrote: What do you think about the proposal from SZABO? SZABO does not take the recent code into account ... we dont have delayed-mounter and add_fstab_entry anymore ... a solution for the development release would be required.

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Java GUI broken on LTSP 5

2008-08-27 Thread Oliver Grawert
hi, On Mi, 2008-08-27 at 13:51 +, Leonid Dubinsky wrote: SZABO Zsolt [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Again, Java applications run extremely slowly on the remote X server. X server is *local*... X server is remote relative to the Java application. depends if you ise LDM_DIRECTX or not

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Howto set X-DisplaySize in LTSP5?

2008-08-23 Thread Oliver Grawert
hi, On Sa, 2008-08-23 at 17:58 +0200, Stefan U. Hegner wrote: Installed: 5.1.10-1 the X_MONITOR_OPTION_* function isnt forward ported to intrepid yet ... that version should not be used in production yet, i hope you only use it in a test environmetn :) i'll care for teh missing functions

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Changes in screen setup? CS5530 based NetVista N2200 locks after client-fs update.

2008-08-23 Thread Oliver Grawert
hi, On Sa, 2008-08-23 at 19:50 +0200, Stefan U. Hegner wrote: I was coming from 5.0.40~bzr20071229-1 and now moved on to 5.1.10-1 as i said in the other thread, that version is currently in active development and far from being stabilized ... Setting up LTSP client... {after this

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] KIWI-LTSP: some clarifications

2008-08-21 Thread Oliver Grawert
hi, On Do, 2008-08-21 at 11:19 +0530, CyberOrg wrote: So how are we making contribution to the LTSP? - We are introducing users of one of the top two distributions to this great way of computing: LTSP. We are trying to make use of LTSP popular. who then get lost during suport in teh #ltsp

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] No ltsp-utils package, no allow_shutdown (Ubuntu 8.04)?

2008-08-15 Thread Oliver Grawert
On Mo, 2008-08-11 at 14:01 +0300, Asmo Koskinen wrote: I never use it, but it was possible, I think, to shutdown clients with ltsp 4.x: here is a little proof of concept page showing how that would be possible with ltsp5 (only for clients with logged in users though)

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] USB en thinclient

2008-07-23 Thread Oliver Grawert
hi, Am Dienstag, den 22.07.2008, 20:17 -0700 schrieb mario salcedo: Hi. I have LTSP5 in XUBUNTU 8.04. I did all the this guide https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DebugLocalDev All ok until step 4. I can not mount manual the USB. But in Step2 the USB appear in dmesg, but don't appear the icon in

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] rc.d script for LTSP5 to prevent multiple logins and kill stale procs

2008-07-15 Thread Oliver Grawert
hi, Am Dienstag, den 15.07.2008, 07:54 -0400 schrieb Michael Blinn: Supposed to, yes. However, I've found with Hardy Heron and LTSP5 that many times stale processes _are_ left over, especially when a client does not exit gracefully. please make sure to file bugs about such applications so

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] suddenly BusyBox on clients

2008-07-15 Thread Oliver Grawert
hi, Am Montag, den 14.07.2008, 21:59 -0500 schrieb Bob Wooden: I did find an active thread (at Ubuntuforums) http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=686966 and scubasteve657 mentions that he had discovered it was xinetd and that he had had terrible after installing VMware. note that due to

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Howto set X-DisplaySize in LTSP5?

2008-07-12 Thread Oliver Grawert
hi, Am Samstag, den 12.07.2008, 20:14 +0200 schrieb Stefan U. Hegner: I am referring to the DPI resolution for font scaling, not the physical screen resolution. I want to tell my X-Server the physical dimensions of my screen, as done in xorg.conf with DisplaySize like this: Section Monitor

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Asus EEe PC with 20 Widescreen as thin client

2008-07-12 Thread Oliver Grawert
hi, Am Samstag, den 12.07.2008, 20:48 +0300 schrieb Asmo Koskinen: So here we have perfect thin client (cheap, quiet and little), and it happens to work as mobile fat client, too. wait for the so called nettops ;) they are using essentially the same board as the latest eeePC but have a very

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Edubuntu 8.04 and Terminal SWAP

2008-07-09 Thread Oliver Grawert
hi, Am Mittwoch, den 09.07.2008, 17:50 -0400 schrieb Jason Chase: The last call to free looked like this: I added the following to /etc/inetd.conf on the server. 9210stream tcp nowait nobody /usr/sbin/tcpd /usr/sbin/nbdswapd USE_NBD_SWAP = Y its

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Symbio clients and Hardy Heron.

2008-07-09 Thread Oliver Grawert
hi, Am Montag, den 30.06.2008, 13:44 -0400 schrieb Patrick Rady: Hi, Has anyone out there had success using Symbio Technologies SYM1110 thin clients with LTSP on Ubuntu 8.04 (Hardy Heron)? These are Geode-based devices, and there seem to be issues aplenty with Geodes and Hardy Heron.

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] LTSP5 and 2.6.17 on Hardy

2008-07-09 Thread Oliver Grawert
hi, Am Montag, den 30.06.2008, 17:11 +0100 schrieb Joshua Higgins: Hello everyone My current system runs a modified debian etch, with a 2.4 kernel and LTSP4.0 with openMosix patches. Everything works great but i need a more up to date system. I have downloaded Xubuntu Hardy, installed

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] fglrx

2008-07-09 Thread Oliver Grawert
hi, Am Montag, den 30.06.2008, 10:02 -0600 schrieb David Burgess: Archives show a couple people asking how to get fglrx working in clients, but no responses. I followed instructions from ubuntuforums.org but no luck. Here's what I tried: chroot /opt/ltsp/i386 apt-get update apt-get install

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Printing with Ubuntu 8.05 Hardy Heron and LTSP5

2008-06-24 Thread Oliver Grawert
hi, Am Montag, den 23.06.2008, 19:47 -0700 schrieb Nicholas Metsovon: Hi, all. Can anyone tell me how to get printing working on Ubuntu 8.04 clients? I found some posts saying that jetdirect is missing from the distribution, but not how to actually get the printing working. Any help will

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] RC files

2008-03-19 Thread Oliver Grawert
hi, Am Mittwoch, den 19.03.2008, 09:04 +0900 schrieb jam: Hi can anybody save me hunting ... ltsp5-gutsy lts.conf [a mac addr] RCFILE_01 = myrc you need to specify a path (similar to the X_CONF variable for pointing to xorg.conf) ciao oli signature.asc Description: Dies ist

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] 2 instances of ssh

2008-03-06 Thread Oliver Grawert
hi, Am Mittwoch, den 05.03.2008, 13:44 -0500 schrieb Rob Owens: I'd like to run 2 instances of ssh on my LTSP 5 server, so that I may disallow password authentication from the internet. I know I can compile from source for the 2nd instance, but is there any way of using Ubuntu's

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] LTSP5: local devices : ERROR connecting - no ltspfsd

2008-03-06 Thread Oliver Grawert
hi, Am Donnerstag, den 06.03.2008, 13:39 +0100 schrieb Reinald Gfuellner: SCREEN_07 = startx ltspfs needs the ssh tunnel in place, XDMCP is not used in ltsp5 (we still have the option for using startx, but none of the features are developed for it) if you want unecrypted X

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] RHEL5 bypass question

2008-02-25 Thread Oliver Grawert
hi, Am Montag, den 25.02.2008, 12:08 +0200 schrieb Antonis Tsolomitis: Instead of loosing time with RHEL5 here is a simple question. Our server can not change to ubuntu for the moment. What if we install edubuntu in another small machine. Is it possible to do the following boot the clients

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] LTSP5 on Debian - Terminal Boots, X works, no login

2008-02-22 Thread Oliver Grawert
hi, Am Freitag, den 22.02.2008, 12:46 + schrieb G. David Sword: Hi Folks Am looking at upgrading from 4.2 to LTSP5. I did the install, the ltsp-build-client, and it all seemed ok. The terminals booted, but gave a message saying that xdialog was not installed, so I installed xdialog.

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Fwd:Some terminals fail to boot

2008-02-19 Thread Oliver Grawert
hi, Am Mittwoch, den 13.02.2008, 14:47 +0200 schrieb What you get is Not what you see: Terminal login screen appears. I mean text based login screen. what kind of video hardware do these machines have ? thats pretty sure a problem with the detection of your graphics hardware ... ciao

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Fwd:Some terminals fail to boot

2008-02-19 Thread Oliver Grawert
hi, Am Dienstag, den 19.02.2008, 14:23 +0200 schrieb What you get is Not what you see: Here are the configuration directives I tried in lts.conf file for S3 Trio 3D/2x did you try without lts.conf ? in ltsp5 lts.conf should only be used to overrride the autodetection ... if anything of the

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] debian ltsp5

2008-02-14 Thread Oliver Grawert
hi, Am Mittwoch, den 13.02.2008, 13:20 -0600 schrieb John McMonagle: Why not just have ltspfsmounter just create appropriate desktop files? because we consider it evil habit to add remove stuff to the users desktop directly in ubuntu and debian ... and nobody yet set down and tried to

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] debian ltsp5

2008-02-13 Thread Oliver Grawert
hi, Am Mittwoch, den 13.02.2008, 09:49 -0600 schrieb John McMonagle: As to the device icons in kde found this: https://blueprints.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+spec/ltspfs-virtual-hal-devices that will still take a while unless someone steps up and helps out Hope it can be worked out. Not sure if I

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] thin client manager

2008-01-30 Thread Oliver Grawert
hi, On Di, 2008-01-29 at 08:34 -0800, Bill Moseley wrote: 2) if it's suppose to run in the chroot (when doing an upgrade) and something else is causing it to fail (like /proc or /dev/pts not being mounted). its supposed to run in the chroot, the server side script just triggers the postrm.d

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Edubuntu - Kubuntu

2008-01-30 Thread Oliver Grawert
hi, On Mi, 2008-01-30 at 17:42 +0100, Giancarlo Martini wrote: Tomasz Lewicki ha scritto: Hello folks! I installed Edubuntu as virtual machine and updated whole installation with KDE packages because I want move my current LTSP 4.2 installation (openSUSE 10.2 and KDE based) to LTSP 5

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] LDM boot and auto login

2008-01-25 Thread Oliver Grawert
hi, On Fr, 2008-01-25 at 09:46 -0500, Bob Hill wrote: tweaks suggested to help this? I'm using DIRECTX=True in the lts.conf file. if thats not a typo then tis is your problem, the option is called LDM_DIRECTX. ciao oli signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Kernel panic detecting network card via-velocity

2008-01-21 Thread Oliver Grawert
hi, On Mo, 2008-01-21 at 11:45 -0500, Andy Sargent wrote: Hello, I am playing around with LTSP to see if I can get it to work on a Jetway mini-ITX MoBo with a via chipset. I have an Elo serial touch screen attached. Everything looks good except during the kernel boot, I get an error right

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Firefox, OpenOffice pixmap crash issue update?

2008-01-21 Thread Oliver Grawert
hi, On Mo, 2008-01-21 at 12:32 -0500, Jim Kronebusch wrote: http://www.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=85321 CMC has written at least a partial fix to this issue in a patch to openoffice which fixes a pixmap leak. This may or may not fully fix the issue, but it might at least

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