Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Debian and nVidia Vanta

2012-01-30 Thread Alkis Georgopoulos
Στις 30-01-2012, ημέρα Δευ, και ώρα 12:52 +0200, ο/η asmo.koski...@arkki.info έγραψε: > > Alkis - I googled that you have problems with nVidia Vanta, too, but you > > fixed them? > > I translated this page with google: > > http://alkisg.mysch.gr/steki/index.php?topic=3808.0 > > So I need 'nouvea

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] both italc and epoptes broadcast stopped working after installing djbdns

2012-01-30 Thread Alkis Georgopoulos
Στις 30-01-2012, ημέρα Δευ, και ώρα 12:57 +0530, ο/η Suraj Kumar έγραψε: > btw, openssl should be listed as a dependency of epoptes-client > because in a stock install I get the following output: > > $ sudo chroot /opt/ltsp/i386 epoptes-client -c > /usr/sbin/epoptes-client: line 132: openssl: comm

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] both italc and epoptes broadcast stopped working after installing djbdns

2012-01-29 Thread Alkis Georgopoulos
Στις 30/01/2012 08:47 πμ, ο/η Suraj Kumar έγραψε: > md5sum /opt/ltsp/i386/etc/epoptes/server.crt > md5sum: /opt/ltsp/i386/etc/epoptes/server.crt: No such file or directory In the http://www.epoptes.org/installation page, you missed the part about copying the server certificate to your chroot.

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] both italc and epoptes broadcast stopped working after installing djbdns

2012-01-28 Thread Alkis Georgopoulos
Στις 28-01-2012, ημέρα Σαβ, και ώρα 16:07 +0530, ο/η Suraj Kumar έγραψε: > I installed djbdns. After installing the broadcast screen feature of > both iTalc as well as epoptes stopped working. ... My suspicion is > that avahi has been broken. Epoptes doesn't use avahi. What's the output of these c

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] dist-upgrade of chroot fails on linux-image-3.0.0-15-generic

2012-01-27 Thread Alkis Georgopoulos
Στις 26-01-2012, ημέρα Πεμ, και ώρα 14:51 +, ο/η Todd O'Bryan έγραψε: > I'm trying to upgrade my chroot and it won't update the kernel. Here's > the output: > ... > /usr/sbin/grub-probe: error: cannot find a device for / (is /dev mounted?). > ... > Errors were encountered while processing: > l

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Epoptes in windowed broadcast mode?

2012-01-25 Thread Alkis Georgopoulos
Στις 26-01-2012, ημέρα Πεμ, και ώρα 08:20 +0530, ο/η Suraj Kumar έγραψε: > Can epoptes do windowed broadcast of session? Has anyone managed to do > this? Hi Suraj, hehe, nice coincidence! Someone requested that yesterday, and it was implemented in http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~epoptes/epoptes/tr

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] ltsp client configuration

2012-01-14 Thread Alkis Georgopoulos
Στις 14-01-2012, ημέρα Σαβ, και ώρα 15:03 +0100, ο/η stefania zanette έγραψε: > In my opinion the problem is not video card or driver configuration > because PIVs login without any problem to the first user called > mario01 and to the administrator called mariofiore but they don't > login with othe

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] avoiding bloating the image for fat clients

2012-01-02 Thread Alkis Georgopoulos
Στις 02-01-2012, ημέρα Δευ, και ώρα 11:29 -0500, ο/η Todd O'Bryan έγραψε: > You'd also be able to install a new program or make a tweak without > having to rebuild the image and restart the clients, wouldn't you? Not to my knowledge. Run `dpkg -L firefox` and see where the "firefox" package puts i

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] avoiding bloating the image for fat clients

2012-01-02 Thread Alkis Georgopoulos
Στις 02-01-2012, ημέρα Δευ, και ώρα 10:52 -0500, ο/η Todd O'Bryan έγραψε: > In other words, can I just start with the bare minimum image and then > install all the other programs I want somewhere and mount that from > the server? Why? What are you trying to gain? The fat client image isn't loaded

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] LTSP FAT Client & thin client problem

2011-12-10 Thread Alkis Georgopoulos
Στις 10-12-2011, ημέρα Σαβ, και ώρα 22:34 +0100, ο/η luca predari έγραψε: > then asked if there was a way to invoke the heekscad from fatclient > to the server What you're looking for is called "remote apps" and it's the opposite of "local apps". You basically set REMOTE_APPS=True in lts.con

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Nvidia ION2 fat clients mixed with other hardware

2011-11-26 Thread Alkis Georgopoulos
Στις 25-11-2011, ημέρα Παρ, και ώρα 20:34 -0500, ο/η Jay Goldberg έγραψε: > I've found that as fat clients these aren't quite as "snappy" as I'd > like them to be. With regards to video performance, fat clients are *exactly* as fast as local, standalone installations. You can have 3D acceleration

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Problem with Epotes in LTSP-Environment

2011-11-21 Thread Alkis Georgopoulos
Στις 21-11-2011, ημέρα Δευ, και ώρα 17:10 +0100, ο/η Hans-Peter Lackner έγραψε: > Hi! > > Yes! x11vnc is in the chroot. => /usr/bin/x11vnc > > In the console of my ltsp-root after starting epoptes and trying to > control a session: > > -- output -- > > VNC Viewer Free Edition 4.1.1 for X - bui

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Announcing Epoptes, a computer lab management and monitoring tool

2011-10-28 Thread Alkis Georgopoulos
Στις 28-10-2011, ημέρα Παρ, και ώρα 21:23 -0400, ο/η David Hopkins έγραψε: > I am running from a thin client. epoptes is run from the teacher's > account on thin client which is part of the lab. I simply selected > all systems and then broadcasted ... the teacher's system shows up as > one that ca

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Announcing Epoptes, a computer lab management and monitoring tool

2011-10-28 Thread Alkis Georgopoulos
Στις 28-10-2011, ημέρα Παρ, και ώρα 16:46 -0400, ο/η David Hopkins έγραψε: > Please ignore. I hadn't noticed that I had selected my system as one > of the systems to which to send the broadcast. So, loopbacks are not > good. You shouldn't be able to do that... you shouldn't even be seeing your ow

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Announcing Epoptes, a computer lab management and monitoring tool

2011-10-28 Thread Alkis Georgopoulos
Στις 28-10-2011, ημέρα Παρ, και ώρα 10:27 -0400, ο/η David Hopkins έγραψε: > Alkis, > > I am getting an error when trying to run the latest version of > epoptes. Specifically, it says my account is not a member of the > epoptes group. However, that is not the case, see the output from the > termin

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Limiting internet usage for someusers

2011-10-18 Thread Alkis Georgopoulos
On Tue, 2011-10-18 at 16:19 +0300, Fatih ER wrote: > By that way I was planning to limit ThinClient users' internet usage. > But as I see right now they all use the LTSP Server's IP (NAT is in > work I guess). No, there's no NAT involved. Your users' sessions *are* on the server, that's why they'r

[Ltsp-discuss] Announcing Epoptes, a computer lab management and monitoring tool

2011-10-14 Thread Alkis Georgopoulos
eir next releases. It's maintained by IT teachers and students, so it should be around for a long time! Hope some people that had a hard time making iTalc work will find it useful! Alkis Georgopoulos -- All the data co

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Build Linux Server and Thin Client Environment - For Community College

2011-10-12 Thread Alkis Georgopoulos
Στις 12-10-2011, ημέρα Τετ, και ώρα 12:46 +0200, ο/η Rolf-Werner Eilert έγραψε: > We have a bunch of Dell Optiplex P III running here, but with 512 MB > RAM they do not work at all under LTSP 5. So I kept on using LTSP 4.2 > and plan to change as soon as we get some new hardware (see > above :-) )

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] nfs_home doesnt have effect

2011-09-07 Thread Alkis Georgopoulos
Στις 08-09-2011, ημέρα Πεμ, και ώρα 08:31 +0400, ο/η Андрей Клаус έγραψε: > > From the fat client, run: > > getltscfg -a > > nothing. > ok, next q: how to fix it ? :) After loading the kernel, the fat client asks for a DHCP lease. Along with the rest of the DHCP info, the server sends the "boot

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] nfs_home doesnt have effect

2011-09-07 Thread Alkis Georgopoulos
Στις 08-09-2011, ημέρα Πεμ, και ώρα 06:36 +0400, ο/η Андрей Клаус έγραψε: > it looks like my ltps client just doesnt read lts.conf. How to check > it? From the fat client, run: getltscfg -a Also, did you install nfs-common in the chroot and ran ltsp-update-image? --

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] How to set default session for ldm?

2011-09-06 Thread Alkis Georgopoulos
Στις 06-09-2011, ημέρα Τρι, και ώρα 11:34 +0200, ο/η Dr. Rüdiger Kupper (Kepler-Gymnasium Freudenstadt) έγραψε: > > LDM_SESSION="gnome-session --session=classic-gnome" You missed an "X": LDM_XSESSION="gnome-session --session=classic-gnome" --

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Various display issues after Lucid -> Natty upgrade

2011-09-02 Thread Alkis Georgopoulos
Στις 02-09-2011, ημέρα Παρ, και ώρα 15:38 -0400, ο/η Lachele Foley (Lists) έγραψε: > It might be worth saying that I only upgraded to Natty because Lucid > doesn't have a driver capable of fully booting the z210's on-board > NIC. But, because of that, I can't really downgrade. I haven't read the

[Ltsp-discuss] Guest sessions

2011-07-18 Thread Alkis Georgopoulos
Some people have been looking for a way to implement guest sessions on LTSP. Here's a quick method. Create /opt/ltsp/i386/usr/share/ldm/rc.d/S00-guest-sessions, with the following contents: case "$LDM_USERNAME" in guest*) ssh -S "$LDM_SOCKET" "$LDM_SERVER" 'cd; rm -rf .* *; rsync -a

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] sharing printers with fatclients

2011-07-08 Thread Alkis Georgopoulos
Στις 08-07-2011, ημέρα Παρ, και ώρα 20:16 +0200, ο/η Simone έγραψε: > ...what is the official way of the LTSP project to share printers with > fatclients; Gadi proposed an LTSP specific way; another way is to expose your printers to your local network normally, with CUPS, as you would do with non-

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] "this workstation isn't authorized to connect to server"

2011-07-06 Thread Alkis Georgopoulos
Στις 06-07-2011, ημέρα Τετ, και ώρα 22:09 +0200, ο/η Frank Lienhard έγραψε: > Honestly: How to check? >From SCREEN_08=shell on the client, run: grep nbd /proc/mounts If you see a line like /dev/nbd0 /rofs squashfs ro,relatime 0 0 in there, then you're using NBD. I'm not using Debian LTSP f

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] "this workstation isn't authorized to connect to server"

2011-07-06 Thread Alkis Georgopoulos
Στις 06-07-2011, ημέρα Τετ, και ώρα 14:09 +0200, ο/η Frank Lienhard έγραψε: > ltsp-update-sshkeys > followed by > ltsp-update-image > > and TADA tha does the trick! Debian serves the chroot with NFS by default. Ubuntu serves the chroot with NBD by default. ltsp-update-image is only applicable to

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] pains changing from X2GO

2011-07-05 Thread Alkis Georgopoulos
Στις 05-07-2011, ημέρα Τρι, και ώρα 23:02 +0200, ο/η Frank Lienhard έγραψε: > No compiz installed at all Are you sure? What's the output of this? dpkg-query -W compiz-core > No, I have to confirm to add the machine to the knownhosts and to give > the passwd for the user If you have to conf

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] pains changing from X2GO

2011-07-05 Thread Alkis Georgopoulos
Στις 05-07-2011, ημέρα Τρι, και ώρα 21:36 +0200, ο/η Frank Lienhard έγραψε: > My client boots (with a kernel image from rom-o-matic), I get a login > screen. > But no user is able to log in. 1) Check /var/log/auth.log on your server. Do you see a login attempt for the user trying to login on the

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] fat client account questions

2011-07-04 Thread Alkis Georgopoulos
Στις 04-07-2011, ημέρα Δευ, και ώρα 18:29 -0600, ο/η David Burgess έγραψε: > Interesting. Now that /home is mounted via nfs I don't see ssh or > sshfs in the processes list during bulk transfers. For example 'dd > if=/dev/nbd0 of=/dev/null' now produces nearly double the network > throughput. The c

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] fat client account questions

2011-07-04 Thread Alkis Georgopoulos
See inline. Στις 04-07-2011, ημέρα Δευ, και ώρα 11:09 -0600, ο/η David Burgess έγραψε: > david@ren:~$ grep david /etc/group > adm:x:4:david > dialout:x:20:david > cdrom:x:24:david > plugdev:x:46:david > lpadmin:x:106:david > david:x:1000:david > david@ren:~$ The output of the `id` command, which

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] MOUNT_LOCAL_REAL_HOME option not working

2011-06-26 Thread Alkis Georgopoulos
Στις 27-06-2011, ημέρα Δευ, και ώρα 02:40 +0200, ο/η Simone έγραψε: > I cannot understand how to expose all the content of my > server's /home to my fatclients. Reading the ubuntu documentation > (https://help.ubuntu.com/community/UbuntuLTSP/GetMoreFromLocalApps#10.04), > I found the option "MOUNT_

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] wrong resolution in rdesktop on bigger monitors

2011-06-16 Thread Alkis Georgopoulos
Στις 15-06-2011, ημέρα Τετ, και ώρα 20:47 -0600, ο/η David Burgess έγραψε: > This system has no user account besides the one I created during > initial installation, as the thin clients are only used for Windows > Remote Desktop. In fact, the LTSP server is only an Ubuntu Server > installation with

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] nc -q unsupported on Fedora/RHEL

2011-05-23 Thread Alkis Georgopoulos
Στις 23-05-2011, ημέρα Δευ, και ώρα 12:17 -1000, ο/η Warren Togami Jr. έγραψε: > http://hg.fedorahosted.org/hg/virt-manager/rev/1f781890ea4a > This is a very similar issue. Notice their kludge to detect nc's > capabilities. I'd use something like this instead, in some initialization code like e.

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Like Sun Ray?

2011-05-22 Thread Alkis Georgopoulos
Στις 22-05-2011, ημέρα Κυρ, και ώρα 21:04 -0700, ο/η Yudhvir Singh Sidhu έγραψε: > What constitutes a fat client? Is it 128+ MB RAM and 400+ MHz? For my > purposes I can make do by providing an efficient browser like, say Dillo > and word processor. With modern desktop environments, 128 MB RAM a

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Horrid Hardware

2011-04-26 Thread Alkis Georgopoulos
Στις 25-04-2011, ημέρα Δευ, και ώρα 18:52 +0800, ο/η Jam έγραψε: > I have some utterly utterly horrid hadware that I need to tame. It resisted > ubuntu/suse/centos/rhel6 install but it sweetly runs a 10.04 chroot ltsp. > How can I do exactly the same as ltsp but not with a nbd root but a hard disk

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Lower footprint kernel

2011-04-18 Thread Alkis Georgopoulos
Στις 18-04-2011, ημέρα Δευ, και ώρα 13:20 +0300, ο/η Janno Sannik έγραψε: > A lot bigger problem is the resolution problem (that's why I actually > didn't stick with ubuntu 8) - the screen won't go anything other than > 800x600 resolution. Any ideas what I could do? I know the box supports > 10

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Lower footprint kernel

2011-04-18 Thread Alkis Georgopoulos
Στις 18-04-2011, ημέρα Δευ, και ώρα 10:43 +0300, ο/η Janno Sannik έγραψε: > I'm trying to set up LTSP to ThinCan thin clients (AMD geode 266Mhz, > 64mb ram). The problem seems to be that default kernel is too big for > thin client to load (.nbi image is ~13MB). It just starts loading the > image

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] How to add 'excluded' module to LTSP 5?

2011-03-16 Thread Alkis Georgopoulos
Στις 17-03-2011, ημέρα Πεμ, και ώρα 12:55 +1100, ο/η ttargownik έγραψε: > Thank you for the link, Alkis. I have tried what is suggested in that link > before, but this doesn't solve my problem. > In the introduction section of that page it states; > "In this page it's assumed that the network card

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] How to add 'excluded' module to LTSP 5?

2011-03-15 Thread Alkis Georgopoulos
Στις 16-03-2011, ημέρα Τετ, και ώρα 16:01 +1100, ο/η ttargownik έγραψε: > Unfortunately for me, I am after the 'r6040.ko' module, which is nowhere to > be found in the above mentioned directory, because it is an excluded > module. https://help.ubuntu.com/community/UbuntuLTSP/AddingModules --

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Can't choose language in LDM

2011-02-11 Thread Alkis Georgopoulos
Στις 11-02-2011, ημέρα Παρ, και ώρα 09:38 +0100, ο/η Davy HUBERT έγραψε: > All right the output is the same than the previous command : > > root@ltsp-server:~# nc 127.0.0.1 9571 > language:ar_IQ.UTF-8 > language:ar_JO.UTF-8 > language:ar_KW.UTF-8 > [...] > language:zh_CN.UTF-8 > language:zh_HK.U

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] is LDM_LIMIT_ONE_SESSION still supported under ubuntu lucid?

2011-02-09 Thread Alkis Georgopoulos
Στις 09-02-2011, ημέρα Τετ, και ώρα 10:32 +0100, ο/η Jakob Unterwurzacher έγραψε: > I still use gnome-watchdog that kills dangling session automatically. An LTSP developer implemented a much better alternative to gnome-watchdog, called "xexit". It's available in his PPA: https://launchpad.net/~sba

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] win32-loader.exe: easily add gPXE to the Windows boot manager

2011-02-04 Thread Alkis Georgopoulos
Στις 04-02-2011, ημέρα Παρ, και ώρα 12:20 +0100, ο/η Xavier Brochard έγραψε: > very interesting! thanks for doing that! > I hope we can define the boot option message? It can be useful to set it to > something like: "restore windows backup" and then boot on DRBL, CloneZilla, > or > another hardi

[Ltsp-discuss] win32-loader.exe: easily add gPXE to the Windows boot manager

2011-02-04 Thread Alkis Georgopoulos
win32-loader.exe [1] is a Debian project, similar to Ubuntu's Wubi, that uses the Windows boot manager to load a Linux kernel. We sent a patch upstream [2] to allow win32-loader to load gPXE [3] instead of a Linux kernel. It has been accepted, but since gPXE is not yet in Debian one needs to manua

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] thincans client unable to boot

2011-01-09 Thread Alkis Georgopoulos
Στις 09-01-2011, ημέρα Κυρ, και ώρα 21:03 +0100, ο/η Xavier Brochard έγραψε: > On a fresh new install, using ubuntu 10.04. > The Thincan clients download the nbi.img and then nothing happened. As they > don't boot I can't debug. All the other clients (good old PCs) boots and runs. https://bugs.la

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] LTSP fat clients vs. Debian Live netboot

2010-12-21 Thread Alkis Georgopoulos
Στις 21-12-2010, ημέρα Τρι, και ώρα 21:06 -0500, ο/η Jonathan Carter (highvoltage) έγραψε: > > 1) Booting would hang on network-manager and/or > > network-manager-dispatcher. > > > Vagrant, did Debian strip away the fat client plugin switches? In Ubuntu > the above is taken care of for the user.

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] without dhcp but with usb boot

2010-12-04 Thread Alkis Georgopoulos
It's easy to boot LTSP without a DHCP server, you just need to provide static boot information in a gPXE script. Use google translate on the following post, I've written a short how to there: http://users.sch.gr/alkisg/tosteki/index.php?topic=1451.msg30596#msg30596 Στις 04-12-2010, ημέρα Σαβ, κ

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] LTSP for exam setting at school

2010-11-16 Thread Alkis Georgopoulos
Στις 16-11-2010, ημέρα Τρι, και ώρα 16:13 -0800, ο/η sm8ps-ltsp...@yahoo.com έγραψε: > My goal is to have the students work individually on one and the same > (LTSP-)server without means of communication or file-sharing, just as if they > were working on individual machines without any connectivi

[Ltsp-discuss] Cheap, small, low-specs client

2010-11-14 Thread Alkis Georgopoulos
Can anyone suggest an inexpensive box to be used for receiving mpeg streams from IP-cameras, and for forwarding those streams on demand to a central server connected with openssl? I.e. * Small in size, * No special CPU requirements (ARMs will also do), * 128 MB RAM should suffice, * 10/100 Mbp

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Several issues in DHCP-Proxy and FAT-Cient Environment

2010-11-13 Thread Alkis Georgopoulos
Στις 11-11-2010, ημέρα Πεμ, και ώρα 16:07 +0100, ο/η Patrick Riehmann έγραψε: > I’ve set up a more complex environment, a mixed DHCP-Proxy and FAT-Client. Same here, but the fat chroot also serves thin clients as well. > So I installed the common LTSP server with 10.10-Ubuntu-Alternate-CD a > s

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] changed server ip, no login

2010-11-04 Thread Alkis Georgopoulos
Στις 04-11-2010, ημέρα Πεμ, και ώρα 11:49 +0100, ο/η vla έγραψε: > i tried 'ltsp-update-image' && 'ltsp-update-sshkeys' but not before i > executed 'ltsp-build-client' clients could log in again. It's the opposite, ltsp-update-sshkeys && ltsp-update-image. --

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] LTSP screen resolution

2010-10-22 Thread Alkis Georgopoulos
Στις 22-10-2010, ημέρα Παρ, και ώρα 10:48 +0100, ο/η Luis Correia έγραψε: > My thin client boots without any problems, except that the screen that > is presented is only 800x600 and does not allow any other resolution > over it. > note, since the thin client is virtual, my problem may not have a >

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] bug in udhcpc

2010-10-21 Thread Alkis Georgopoulos
The udhcp version shipped with Lucid is ancient (>5 years old) because at that time they moved the codebase to busybox and it's been maintained there since. https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/busybox/+bug/566845 So you can try backporting from maverick or just copying the binary etc. ---

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Chroot doesn't have Internet Access

2010-10-18 Thread Alkis Georgopoulos
Try this: sudo cp /etc/resolv.conf /opt/ltsp/i386/etc/ -- Download new Adobe(R) Flash(R) Builder(TM) 4 The new Adobe(R) Flex(R) 4 and Flash(R) Builder(TM) 4 (formerly Flex(R) Builder(TM)) enable the development of rich a

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Can someone point me in the appropriate instructions for a fat client

2010-10-07 Thread Alkis Georgopoulos
Στις 07-10-2010, ημέρα Πεμ, και ώρα 08:46 -0400, ο/η B Marl έγραψε: > Sorry to bother everyone but I am struggling getting the fat client to > work on Ubuntu 10.04. And I really am in need for local items on the > client to be read and accessed for a software program call Burnin (by. > Passmark).

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Thin-client screen resolution problem

2010-10-07 Thread Alkis Georgopoulos
Στις 07-10-2010, ημέρα Πεμ, και ώρα 14:07 +0200, ο/η guyonne έγραψε: > But how can this happened, when it was working correctly with ubuntu > 8.04 ? Can you somehow boot it with 8.04 and paste the xorg.conf that's used there, so that we see the exact modeline (timings)? > Yes and in 1024x768 reso

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Thin-client screen resolution problem

2010-10-07 Thread Alkis Georgopoulos
Στις 07-10-2010, ημέρα Πεμ, και ώρα 14:12 +0200, ο/η rolf έγραψε: > I just want to point out that maybe the problem is with Ubuntu 10.04, > not LTSP. > When i try to use 1024x768 my screen goes black and the system hangs. And your system doesn't hang when you use another monitor?! Because AFAIK th

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Thin-client screen resolution problem

2010-10-07 Thread Alkis Georgopoulos
Στις 07-10-2010, ημέρα Πεμ, και ώρα 12:26 +0200, ο/η guyonne έγραψε: > Hi > > If I try xrandr --output default --mode 1024x768 > I get nothing when I switch with Alt+Ctrl+F7 > > here it is the result of the xrandr command > > Screen 0: minimum 320 x 200, current 1024 x 768, maximum 1024 x 768 >

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Thin-client screen resolution problem

2010-10-07 Thread Alkis Georgopoulos
ts.conf. See also the xrandr man page if you need help with its command line. > Le 06/10/2010 21:03, Alkis Georgopoulos a écrit : > > What resolution are you trying to set? > > > > X_HORZSYNC=30.0-55.0 is too low, for 1024x768 try the following in > > lts.conf: > > [

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Thin-client screen resolution problem

2010-10-06 Thread Alkis Georgopoulos
What resolution are you trying to set? X_HORZSYNC=30.0-55.0 is too low, for 1024x768 try the following in lts.conf: [Default/or client mac address] X_HORZSYNC=30.0-88.0 X_VERTREFRESH=50.0-65.0 XRANDR_MODE_0=1024x768 Στις 06-10-2010, ημέρα Τετ, και ώρα 20:25 +0200, ο/η guyonne έγραψε: > @Zs

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] LDM Login Language

2010-09-24 Thread Alkis Georgopoulos
Στις 24-09-2010, ημέρα Παρ, και ώρα 10:51 -0700, ο/η Vagrant Cascadian έγραψε: > On Fri, Sep 24, 2010 at 09:37:00AM +0200, Martin Gabel wrote: > > I have a problem with the LDM Language. The Login Options are all in > > english but the Keyboard Layout is german. The parameter LDM_LANGUAGE > > see

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Too old thin client - VIA Eden CPU - 10.10 Beta

2010-09-19 Thread Alkis Georgopoulos
Hi Asmo, Please don't file Ubuntu-specific bugs under LTSP (https://bugs.launchpad.net/ltsp/+bugs), e.g. why would the Fedora maintainer be interested in the fact that the Marevick kernel is compiled with the CONFIG_M686 enabled? File them under ubuntu-ltsp instead: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubu

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] core switch replacement causing dhcp failure

2010-09-16 Thread Alkis Georgopoulos
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ltsp/+bug/505916 Στις 16-09-2010, ημέρα Πεμ, και ώρα 08:58 -0600, ο/η David Burgess έγραψε: > Hi all, > > Ubuntu 10.04 x86_64 server > LTSP 5.x > 14 thin clients > Cisco switches > multiple vlans (tc all on single vlan) > Windows Server 2008 doing dhcp (

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Enabling CPU scaling on clients

2010-08-18 Thread Alkis Georgopoulos
Distro/version? E.g. in Ubuntu Lucid I think it's handled by "/etc/init.d/ondemand", which is provided by the "initscripts" package, which should be preinstalled on the chroot. The main thing this script does is: for CPUFREQ in /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu*/cpufreq/scaling_governor do [ -f $CPUF

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] nbd

2010-08-17 Thread Alkis Georgopoulos
Στις 16-08-2010, ημέρα Δευ, και ώρα 13:49 -0400, ο/η Michael Blinn έγραψε: > Through more testing (thank you Alkis!) we've narrowed the problem > down to hosts.allow syntax. > ... > This does not: > ALL: 192.168. > nbdrootd: ALL: keepalive > > This does not: > ALL: 192.168.0.0/16 > nbdrootd: ALL:

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] nbd

2010-08-14 Thread Alkis Georgopoulos
Στις 13-08-2010, ημέρα Παρ, και ώρα 10:50 -0400, ο/η Michael Blinn έγραψε: > I figure it's about time to open a bug - I just don't know whether I > should open it against tcpd or inetd or ltsp Hi Michael, can you use some other program to test that your system is capable of sending keep alive pac

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] LDM gives panable virtual desktop

2010-08-12 Thread Alkis Georgopoulos
Στις 11-08-2010, ημέρα Τετ, και ώρα 21:34 +0200, ο/η Verner Kjærsgaard έγραψε: > Once logged in, the user is taken to the proper desktop of his, but > again it's way too large - and scrollable and so. If the user then > finds and opens up 'controlpanel' and sets the correct resolution, > subsequent

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] lts.conf NFS_HOME in fat-clients

2010-08-10 Thread Alkis Georgopoulos
Στις 10-08-2010, ημέρα Τρι, και ώρα 15:09 +0200, ο/η ragu έγραψε: > I'm testing the fat-client environment. It looks good:-) > My NFS home isn't on LTSP-Server. I need to define another NFS Server in the > fat-client > chroot. > My simple question: Which script is reading the lts.conf NFS_HOME v

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] nbd

2010-08-09 Thread Alkis Georgopoulos
Στις 09-08-2010, ημέρα Δευ, και ώρα 09:52 +0200, ο/η Helmut Lichtenberg έγραψε: > Hi Alkis, > thanks for your explanations. May I ask some more details? > Until now I imagined this connection somehow like opening a file over the > network and getting something like a filehandle. I could not unders

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] nbd

2010-08-09 Thread Alkis Georgopoulos
Στις 09-08-2010, ημέρα Δευ, και ώρα 09:30 +0200, ο/η Frédéric Grelot έγραψε: > Well, maybe that could be an option of ltsp since ldm is quite light : > active nbd/swap (launch client+swapon device) when a user logs in, and > disactive it (if possible) when no user is logged on (swapoff+close > nbd

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] nbd

2010-08-09 Thread Alkis Georgopoulos
Στις 09-08-2010, ημέρα Δευ, και ώρα 09:13 +0200, ο/η Helmut Lichtenberg έγραψε: > Alkis Georgopoulos schrieb am 06. Aug 2010 um 15:44:16 CEST: > > You can put an extra `exec` at the last line of /usr/sbin/nbdrootd so > > that no nbdrootd processes exist at all: > > PATH=/us

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] nbd

2010-08-06 Thread Alkis Georgopoulos
Στις 06-08-2010, ημέρα Παρ, και ώρα 08:14 -0500, ο/η grant έγραψε: > Ok checked today and I have 17 nbdrootd processes running. > > ps aux | grep nbdrootd | grep -v grep > nobody8390 0.0 0.0 4092 640 ?Ss Aug05 0:00 /bin/sh > /usr/sbin/nbdrootd /opt/ltsp/images/i386.img > ...

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] boot fails after Loading initrd.img ... (r8168B ?)

2010-07-29 Thread Alkis Georgopoulos
Maybe you need to add the module to the client initrd: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/UbuntuLTSP/AddingModules Στις 29-07-2010, ημέρα Πεμ, και ώρα 19:53 +0200, ο/η ragu έγραψε: > I'm again, the bad english speaking guy.-/ > > I can't get my brandnew emachines working. Please help. > Maybe is

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Integrating LTSP into a complex DHCP domain

2010-07-18 Thread Alkis Georgopoulos
Στις 10-07-2010, ημέρα Σαβ, και ώρα 14:34 -0700, ο/η David Mitchell έγραψε: > We’ve brought up a host running Ubuntu Lucid’s LTSP installation, but > cannot allow it to run a DHCP server. How can we direct the PXE > loaders to the proper server without confusing the Cisco phones and > Active Direc

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Firefox makes Xorg use too much memory, crashing clients

2010-06-29 Thread Alkis Georgopoulos
Στις 29-06-2010, ημέρα Τρι, και ώρα 16:45 +0100, ο/η Gavin McCullagh έγραψε: > May I ask, does MOZ_DISABLE_IMAGE_OPTIMIZE have the desired effect for you? I only did some minimal testing, but * The clients didn't crash, even 128 MB RAM clients loading 100 MB images (which normally results in 8

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Firefox makes Xorg use too much memory, crashing clients

2010-06-29 Thread Alkis Georgopoulos
Στις 29-06-2010, ημέρα Τρι, και ώρα 12:22 +0100, ο/η Gavin McCullagh έγραψε: > This sounds familiar > > https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=395260 Thank you Gavid, even though I'd heard about the pixmap issue, I wasn't aware of any attempts at solving it (even if they're curren

[Ltsp-discuss] Firefox makes Xorg use too much memory, crashing clients

2010-06-29 Thread Alkis Georgopoulos
Some people have been experiencing thin client crashes on some web pages. I traced one such crash to a problem in Firefox, where it makes Xorg use too much RAM while loading images. E.g. for a 10 megapixel photo, Firefox will make Xorg temporarily use an additional 80MB RAM, crashing any thin clie

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] problem with lts.conf on Ubuntu 10.04

2010-06-08 Thread Alkis Georgopoulos
Στις 08-06-2010, ημέρα Τρι, και ώρα 13:37 +0200, ο/η Lars Madsen έγραψε: > Hi > > I'm currently testing an Ubuntu 10.04 based LTSP against our group of > client hardware. > > Our high end clients works without a problem (provided one changes the > eggplant colored background and chooses some 'b

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] First impression of LTSP5

2010-05-29 Thread Alkis Georgopoulos
Στις 29-05-2010, ημέρα Σαβ, και ώρα 17:03 +0200, ο/η Peter έγραψε: > I have just loaded up ltsp5 on 10.04 and with a 256k client, the response is > very slow, much slower that 8.04. > I'm going to setup ltsp4 again and see how it goes. > The fat client setup is fantastic. Did you try LDM_DIRECTX=T

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Chromium as a local app

2010-04-27 Thread Alkis Georgopoulos
Στις 27-04-2010, ημέρα Τρι, και ώρα 21:38 +0200, ο/η Jarosław Stemplewski έγραψε: > Anybody tried to run chromium browser as a local app? > > Installing in chroot is simple, browser starts on a thin client but > nothing appears on the screen. > The SingletonLock file is created in ~/.config/chromi

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Ubuntu 9.10 LTSP5 video detection

2010-04-20 Thread Alkis Georgopoulos
Στις 20-04-2010, ημέρα Τρι, και ώρα 13:55 +0100, ο/η John Ingleby έγραψε: > ... until I tried to boot some newer thin clients (HP t5525, > IGEL 1 /2, DevonIT TC2). All of these machines boot successfully > to the Ubuntu login screen, but when users attempt to login after a > minute or so they simpl

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] 10.04 ltsp-update-image problem

2010-03-24 Thread Alkis Georgopoulos
It's been fixed in ltsp-client-core 5.2.1-0ubuntu3, which is available in the repositories, so you just need to update your chroot. Στις 24-03-2010, ημέρα Τετ, και ώρα 15:32 -0600, ο/η David Burgess έγραψε: > 2010/3/24 Jarosław Stemplewski : > > I'm testing 10.04 ltsp environment. > > > > After y

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] feature request: arch option at install

2010-03-23 Thread Alkis Georgopoulos
Στις 23-03-2010, ημέρα Τρι, και ώρα 15:35 -0700, ο/η Jordan Erickson έγραψε: > If my opinion is worth reading I would also suggest a simple question > dialog during alternate CD install to ask "what chroot(s) arch would you > like to install? i386, amd64, ..." along with the other questions that >

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Student Monitoring

2010-03-13 Thread Alkis Georgopoulos
Στις 13-03-2010, ημέρα Σαβ, και ώρα 10:46 +0100, ο/η Sascha Schneider έγραψε: > we did use italc too, but this slows down the server extremely + is > afaik not maintained anymore. Last packages on sf.net are from 2008 If you have both iTalc and vino-server (the gnome remote desktop server) enabled

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Draft implementation of fat clients

2010-03-12 Thread Alkis Georgopoulos
Στις 18-02-2010, ημέρα Πεμ, και ώρα 23:12 +0100, ο/η Nicolas LEBRUN έγραψε: > 2010/2/18 Alkis Georgopoulos > Στις 18-02-2010, ημέρα Πεμ, και ώρα 20:53 +0100, ο/η Nicolas > Lebrun > έγραψε: > > I'm trying the fatclient implemen

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Unmount devices in LTSP 5

2010-03-10 Thread Alkis Georgopoulos
USB sticks are not unmounted after 2 seconds, the write cache is flushed every 2 seconds, so it's safe to just go ahead and pull the USB sticks off after 2 seconds of inactivity. -- Download Intel® Parallel Studio Eval Tr

[Ltsp-discuss] Ubuntu fat client how-to

2010-02-22 Thread Alkis Georgopoulos
I've just written a small how-to which may hopefully help people in their first fat client installations: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/UbuntuLTSP/FatClients Any feedback welcome, both for the wiki page and for any problems with the Ubuntu fat client script. -

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Draft implementation of fat clients

2010-02-21 Thread Alkis Georgopoulos
Στις 21-02-2010, ημέρα Κυρ, και ώρα 23:29 +0100, ο/η Nicolas Lebrun έγραψε: > Could you please post your lts.conf ... With SSH_FOLLOW_SYMLINKS=false, > I haven't got the error anymore, but I still get no sound ( no hardware > ) ... Sure, but I don't think it will help you with your sound problem

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Draft implementation of fat clients

2010-02-20 Thread Alkis Georgopoulos
> Στις 18-02-2010, ημέρα Πεμ, και ώρα 20:53 +0100, ο/η Nicolas Lebrun > έγραψε: > > - Pulsaudio doesn't function ... it looks like pulseaudio can't > > write his symbolic link on /tmp because of tmpfs > > Στις 18-02-2010, ημέρα Πεμ, και ώρα 23:21 +0200, ο/η Alki

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] dnsmasq as dhcp-proxy and older clients

2010-02-20 Thread Alkis Georgopoulos
Στις 20-02-2010, ημέρα Σαβ, και ώρα 07:45 -0700, ο/η Scott Derrick έγραψε: > I just installed LTSP using the Ubuntu 9.10 Alternate CD. > > I installed dnsmasq per the Ubuntu docs at > > https://help.ubuntu.com/community/UbuntuLTSP/ProxyDHCP > > we have a dhcp server on the local LAN that I canno

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Draft implementation of fat clients

2010-02-18 Thread Alkis Georgopoulos
Στις 18-02-2010, ημέρα Πεμ, και ώρα 20:53 +0100, ο/η Nicolas Lebrun έγραψε: > I'm trying the fatclient implementation made by Stephane Graber as announced > to ltsp-developer list > ... > It does work, but i still get some problems: > - I had to make a "rm -fr /home/*" inside the chroot because i

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] PXE boot problem

2010-02-11 Thread Alkis Georgopoulos
Στις 11-02-2010, ημέρα Πεμ, και ώρα 17:33 +0100, ο/η Wim De Geeter έγραψε: > When I try to boot this client over PXE I get following error. > > line 174: Can't open /tmp/net-eth0.conf I'd guess that your initramfs doesn't contain the module needed for your card. So I don't think this is a PXE bo

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] boot delays

2010-01-15 Thread Alkis Georgopoulos
Στις 15-01-2010, ημέρα Παρ, και ώρα 08:35 -0700, ο/η David Burgess έγραψε: > > And then after some period of time the tc finishes booting normally > and all is well. The delay is approximately equal to 1 minute per > extra booting client. In other words, if I reboot all 15 > simultaneously, it is

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Multiple netcards in one LTSP server, how...

2010-01-13 Thread Alkis Georgopoulos
Στις 13-01-2010, ημέρα Τετ, και ώρα 11:04 +0100, ο/η Verner Kjærsgaard έγραψε: > > Hi list and Alkis, > > - your latest idea with the 8-port gigabit switch sound REALLY nice! > - to fully understand...I would then BOND the 4 server ports together > and hook them up to 4 ports of the gigaswitch...

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Multiple netcards in one LTSP server, how...

2010-01-13 Thread Alkis Georgopoulos
Στις 13-01-2010, ημέρα Τετ, και ώρα 09:05 +0100, ο/η Verner Kjærsgaard έγραψε: > - thank you for all answers! > - one quick Q though... > > "Try the 4 different subnets approach"...yes, I understand howto fix the > dhcpd.conf file in order to do this. But I'm unsure about lts.conf? In > this file,

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Multiple netcards in one LTSP server, how...

2010-01-12 Thread Alkis Georgopoulos
Στις 12-01-2010, ημέρα Τρι, και ώρα 22:39 +0100, ο/η Verner Kjærsgaard έγραψε: > Well, I've not got 100 clients but someting like 70 or so. They don't > run at the same time, perhaps 20 - 20 are active at the same time. The > swithes in use are 24 port swithes, hence the need for distributing > pr

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Multiple netcards in one LTSP server, how...

2010-01-12 Thread Alkis Georgopoulos
Στις 12-01-2010, ημέρα Τρι, και ώρα 12:30 -0700, ο/η David Burgess έγραψε: > On Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 12:18 PM, Alkis Georgopoulos wrote: > > > See also https://help.ubuntu.com/community/UbuntuLTSP/FlowControl for a > > possible problem with mixed-speed networks that

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Multiple netcards in one LTSP server, how...

2010-01-12 Thread Alkis Georgopoulos
Στις 12-01-2010, ημέρα Τρι, και ώρα 19:46 +0100, ο/η Verner Kjærsgaard έγραψε: > - thank you for your answers! > > - just to clarify... > > - I've got 4 24-port switches that connects to all the clients. 100Mbit > ports to the clients, 1000Mbit to the server. As of now they are just > connected t

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Multiple netcards in one LTSP server, how...

2010-01-12 Thread Alkis Georgopoulos
Στις 12-01-2010, ημέρα Τρι, και ώρα 09:06 +0100, ο/η Verner Kjærsgaard έγραψε: > Say the eth0 server IP is 192.168.0.10, I could then configure the other > 3 interfaces like > > eth1: 192.168.0.11, > eth2: 192.168.0.12, > eth3: 192.168.0.13 Ethernet bonding would be easier to manage, and would

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Help with ThinClient everythin upside down (gnome)

2010-01-12 Thread Alkis Georgopoulos
I've seen that happen with intel clients, when the nvidia proprietary drivers were installed on the server (as those drivers mess with the gl libs). If that's the case, you can fix it by either removing the proprietary drivers, or by disabling compiz for all users: sudo gconftool-2 --direct --c

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] The Dark Ages

2010-01-11 Thread Alkis Georgopoulos
Can you try also forcing the horizontal rate? E.g. put something like this in lts.conf: X_HORZSYNC=30.0-101.0 X_VERTREFRESH=60.0-75.0 I've seen many cases where forcing the correct refresh rates was enough to solve the resolution problems, and X_MODE_0/XRANDR_MODE_0 weren't needed

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