Thanks very much for the reply Todd. It has not happened anymore since that third time. I agree that it is probably not a hardware issue. I can only guess that the users were somehow able to modify their home dir (kde), even though they are supposedly locked down. So far I have not been able to recreate the problem. Thanks again for the info.
Bill ----- Original Message ----- From: "Todd Shoemaker" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <ltsp-discuss@lists.sourceforge.net> Sent: Wednesday, December 20, 2006 7:50 AM Subject: Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Keyboard stops working > Bill- > > I don't know what is causing this, but considering that you fixed it by > replacing the home dirs indicates to me that it is neither a hardware or > a system configuration issue, but a user-specific configuration issue. > There are two ways that keyboard layouts can be modified by users (that > I know of): through .Xmodmap and through the desktop settings (KDE). I > would suggest looking into those to see if they are the culprit. I > would suspect that KDE could have strange keyboard settings in kcontrol > that is causing the problem, since .Xmodmap is not used that much these > days. > > -Todd > > Bill Dosser wrote: >> We have been running several DisklessWorkStations (LTSP Term 150) for >> months now with no problems, until the past week or so. >> The server is running CentOS 4 with LTSP 4.2. For no apparent reason >> we had two workstations last week loose keyboard >> function after login. Just like you unplugged the keyboard. I was able >> to get them working by deleting their Home Dir and >> putting a default copy back. Then today another WorkStation did the >> same thing. I am not a Linux expert by any means, any help >> is welcomed. >> Here is some info if it helps. We run KDE and use KDE Kiosk Admin >> Tool to lock down the clients. All of our current thin clients >> use PXE boot. For some reason the last shipment of >> DiskLessWorkStations we received are Etherboot. We have not put any >> of the new Etherboot stations in service, but I did add them to >> dhcpd.conf and host file to test them. They worked fine. This is the >> only thing >> I know of that has changed in months on the server. >> I searched the archives a bit and found one other person with similar >> problems, but did not see any answers to it. >> >> Thanks, Bill >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------- >> Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT >> Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share >> your >> opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys - and earn cash >> http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> >> _____________________________________________________________________ >> 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 >> > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT > Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share > your > opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys - and earn cash > http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV > _____________________________________________________________________ > 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 > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys - and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _____________________________________________________________________ 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
