Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Ubuntu 9.04 Alternate Cd install does not work

2009-06-28 Thread Bob Wooden
Alkis Georgopoulos wrote: .snip.. To try this without rebooting, you'll need to stop networking while editing the file: sudo invoke-rc.d dhcp3-server stop This command reports fail and LOCKS the computer display up to the point that I cannot keystroke (ctrl-alt-backspace,

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Ubuntu 9.04 Alternate Cd install does not work

2009-06-28 Thread Bob Wooden
Alkis Georgopoulos wrote: Στις 28-06-2009, ημέρα Κυρ, και ώρα 11:12 -0500, ο/η Bob Wooden έγραψε: sudo invoke-rc.d dhcp3-server stop This command reports fail and LOCKS the computer display up to the point that I cannot keystroke (ctrl-alt-backspace, ctrl-alt-del, nor any

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Ubuntu 9.04 Alternate Cd install does not work

2009-06-26 Thread Bob Wooden
Alkis Georgopoulos wrote: Στις 25-06-2009, ημέρα Πεμ, και ώρα 06:15 -0500, ο/η Bob Wooden έγραψε: My motherboard has an onboard 10/100/1000 LAN and it connects to the internet. My LTSP is on a second 10/100 card (RTL8139, I think?) for the terminals. (Just like my old 8.04

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Ubuntu 9.04 Alternate Cd install does not work

2009-06-26 Thread Bob Wooden
Alkis Georgopoulos wrote: Στις 26-06-2009, ημέρα Παρ, και ώρα 06:29 -0500, ο/η Bob Wooden έγραψε: Yes, I agree, but I am having problems and prefer to solve this problem before making any changes to (like upgrading) second nic. As my existing system worked fine with 8.04.2, why does

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] logged in terminal hangs server display

2009-03-31 Thread Bob Wooden
, simple enough, do not enable the screensaver! However, I could be wrong but, enabling the screensaver should not make a difference. End of story. Thanks Linux community and thanks for LTSP. On Mon, 2009-03-30 at 21:32 -0500, Bob Wooden wrote: I have a 64-bit Ubuntu 8.04.1 LTS server (my home

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] logged in terminal hangs server display

2009-03-31 Thread Bob Wooden
-03-31 at 19:17 -0500, Steve Cayford wrote: Bob Wooden wrote: I see that I have not provided enough information for any good suggestions. Sorry about that. What I have discovered is that when the Ubuntu default screensaver is enabled, the server display will hang when the terminal is left

[Ltsp-discuss] logged in terminal hangs server display

2009-03-30 Thread Bob Wooden
I have a 64-bit Ubuntu 8.04.1 LTS server (my home desktop computer) with a single terminal (for my daughter's room.) When she is logged on, the server display is hung up. SSH into server (from my laptop) and I see one of my four processors running at 100% load with an Xorg process consuming 24-26%

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Java still not fast enough for us

2009-02-09 Thread Bob Wooden
Thanks Jim, this hardware knowledge info explains (to me, anyway) why our system slowed do (a little bit.) I will be changing that RTL8139 card soon that is the 10/100 connection to our server. We had a card go bad and I just figured that a 10/100 card was another 10/100 card. Never thought about

[Ltsp-discuss] Linpopup

2008-12-24 Thread Bob Wooden
I know that Linpopup is available for simple communications between users during online sessions. But, are there any other alternatives? As my location is Linux only, I do not need the Linpopup for any windozes clients (understand that it doesn't work very well with them, anyway.) So, I have been

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Linpopup

2008-12-24 Thread Bob Wooden
available. Jim McQuillan j...@ltsp.org Bob Wooden wrote: I know that Linpopup is available for simple communications between users during online sessions. But, are there any other alternatives? As my location is Linux only, I do not need the Linpopup for any windozes clients

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Survey of thin client hardware

2008-10-21 Thread Bob Wooden
I had worked with LTSP years ago (I think v 3.0) and used a Pentium 75 as a single client. Two years ago, I returned to using LTSP and set up an Ubuntu 7.10 server with LTSP 5. Using some older Compaq Deskpro Celeron 466 with 64Mb RAM as terminals (started with three.) They boot with a

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] eth1 in-activity

2008-08-01 Thread Bob Wooden
I was trying to run a single client (until system grows to require a network switch) with a crossover wire. That did not work and I went ahead and bought a 5-port switch. All works. Thanks. On Tue, 2008-07-29 at 06:48 -0500, Bob Wooden wrote: Thanks Jim and David, I will not have time

[Ltsp-discuss] eth1 in-activity

2008-07-28 Thread Bob Wooden
I am unable to get activity on my (RTL8139) eth1 nic card. My primary (onboard) nic (eth0) connects (static address) to my local lan network. My second nic card is assigned to LTSP. The interfaces eth0 and eth1 appear in ifconfig. My OS (Ubuntu 8.04LTS-64bit) sees the second card and reports it

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] suddenly BusyBox on clients

2008-07-18 Thread Bob Wooden
My version of a conclusion. When a user installs VMware onto Ubuntu (v8.04 in my case,) the install instructions I followed (at howtoforge.com) indicates that xinetd needs to be installed prior to installing the VMware packages. When xinetd installs, it removes openbsd-inetd (what

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] suddenly BusyBox on clients

2008-07-18 Thread Bob Wooden
My version of a conclusion. When a user installs VMware onto Ubuntu (v8.04 in my case,) the install instructions I followed (at howtoforge.com) indicates that xinetd needs to be installed prior to installing the VMware packages. When xinetd installs, it removes openbsd-inetd (what

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] suddenly BusyBox on clients

2008-07-17 Thread Bob Wooden
I went back and started with my July 11 syslog and discovered the same error message up to and including today's log file. ---snip--- Jul 11 14:05:18 microwave xinetd[21095]: inetd.conf - Bad value for wait: nowait.400 [file=/etc/inetd.conf] [line=40]

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] suddenly BusyBox on clients

2008-07-16 Thread Bob Wooden
that not suggest that these issue may be permission related? Bob Wooden wrote: Using you advice, under the /etc/xinetd.d folder, I added two files, one named tftp and the second named nbd. Within each I placed the text you sent. I reviewed the other files (within xinetd.d folder) and made

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] suddenly BusyBox on clients

2008-07-15 Thread Bob Wooden
not sure what you meant about . . . .tftpd-hpa doesnt run standalone but . . . because I am unfamiliar to this depth of programming, but I am learning as I go. What do you think about my inetd and xinetd idea? Oliver Grawert wrote: hi, Am Montag, den 14.07.2008, 21:59 -0500 schrieb Bob Wooden

[Ltsp-discuss] suddenly BusyBox on clients

2008-07-14 Thread Bob Wooden
Have a small LTSP Ubuntu (8.04) system at work. Was working on Friday when we left. Over the weekend, I apt-get update via ssh from home and this morning we are seeing BusyBox (initramfs) prompts on our clients. Keyboard and monitor (on server) allows , but clients see only BusyBox prompts.

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] suddenly BusyBox on clients

2008-07-14 Thread Bob Wooden
Thanks for your response, James, but I have already done that. 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. Well, I mention

[Ltsp-discuss] user cannot access email

2008-05-20 Thread Bob Wooden
This AM, I was home and decided to see if my server needed any updates. Not thinking that anyone was at work, yet. When I arrived at work, it was discovered that one user was at work and signed into his client using Thunderbird. The server was hung (when I got to work) and I could not get

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] user cannot access email

2008-05-20 Thread Bob Wooden
Thanks, problem solved. AJ MacLeod wrote: On Tuesday 20 May 2008 17:07:19 Bob Wooden wrote: System restart yields the same pop-up box complaint. And I cannot find any running Thunderbird processes. Further, other users can open Thunderbird, just not this specific user that happened

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] security update of ssl/ssh: ldm login doesn't work any more

2008-05-14 Thread Bob Wooden
Yes, this worked for me, but I will add that I had to re-start all terminals. Xavier Brochard wrote: How can I be so stupid ? I forgot that you run update the image after updating the key. As you say, after manually running ltsp-update-sshkeys one must run ltsp-update-image and it should

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] auto logoff

2008-03-19 Thread Bob Wooden
Thanks, exactly what I was looking for. Bob Craig E. Szymanski wrote: - Bob Wooden [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have been in search of a program or a script that will logoff users after a pre-determined period of in-activity.. Anyone had any experience with this? timeoutd

[Ltsp-discuss] auto logoff

2008-03-18 Thread Bob Wooden
I have been in search of a program or a script that will logoff users after a pre-determined period of in-activity.. Anyone had any experience with this? - This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges.

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] thin client manager

2008-01-30 Thread Bob Wooden
I am getting confused. There is (and I think I started it) two conversations, here on this list and over on the Edubuntu-users list regarding this issue. If it makes any difference, my system is an Ubuntu 7.10 (Gutsy) and then I added the LTSP5 packages. It is NOT a Edubuntu 7.10 build. I

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] a query

2008-01-04 Thread Bob Wooden
When I setup my Ubuntu 7.10 (Gutsy) with LTSP 5, I had problems getting clients to start. I read (in one location) that lts.conf was no longer necessary. (I do not remember where, sorry.) When all else failed, I found a reference that lts.conf had been moved to /opt/ltsp/i386/etc. When I

[Ltsp-discuss] Edubuntu 7.04 to 7.10

2007-12-12 Thread Bob Wooden
My experience with LTSP. First brief history. Several years ago, I started with LTSP 3.x as an experiment. Client was a Packard Bell Classic Pentium 75 with 16Mb RAM. To make client silent, un-plugged the CPU fan (in the case) and it lasted almost a year. (I think LTSP server was on Redhat

[Ltsp-discuss] LTSP chroot updates

2007-12-10 Thread Bob Wooden
With the number of general updates (Firefox, CUPS, etc.) that are being issued for Ubuntu, comes this question. How often should an administrator update LTSP chroot? Or is this no longer an issue with LTSP5? (F.Y.I. I am running Ubuntu 7.10 and LTSP5 in my current environment.)

[Ltsp-discuss] Dell GXP50 boot problem

2007-12-06 Thread Bob Wooden
I have four of these Dell GX50 model. Two work fine. Two report the same code (different code numbers) and hang after these lines appear: first machine: [20.645497] PCI: Cannot allocate resource region 4 of device :00:1f.2 [20.645590}PCI: Cannot allocate resource region 4 of device

[Ltsp-discuss] missing applets

2007-11-13 Thread Bob Wooden
I posted below on the Edubuntu-users site and got no answer, so I moved it here. Any ideas? I have successfully built a newer Edubuntu server. When users perform their initial login, we are getting four (4) error messages. The first messages states: The panel encountered a problem

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] missing applets

2007-11-13 Thread Bob Wooden
and mouse attached to the server itself. I need more lts.conf file information. Can anyone help? Bill Moseley wrote: On Tue, Nov 13, 2007 at 08:30:04AM -0600, Bob Wooden wrote: I posted below on the Edubuntu-users site and got no answer, so I moved it here. Any ideas? I have

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] LTSP 5 Ubuntu 7.10

2007-11-09 Thread Bob Wooden
information. A little thought and internet digging and there is your solution. Thank you, all the people who work in Ubuntu, LTSP and all connected projects. Bob Wooden wrote: I have realized that this may be the incorrect forum for this question and have reposted it on the Edubuntu-user forum

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] LTSP 5 Ubuntu 7.10

2007-11-08 Thread Bob Wooden
I have realized that this may be the incorrect forum for this question and have reposted it on the Edubuntu-user forum. Sorry if this caused any inconvenience. Bob Bob Wooden wrote: I am building a new (to me) LTSP server. Client boots to server properly. Process hangs at W:alsa-util.c

[Ltsp-discuss] Dotclock Expected???

2002-05-28 Thread Bob Wooden
I guess I need to learn how to send a complete fatal server error report. My 'ws001' ( the only ws I have right now) is giving me a message Fatal server error: Dotclock expected. I can change to runlevel 3 and I will get a bash prompt. All worked fine until a few days ago. I have tried

[Ltsp-discuss] Challenges With Sound v0.3

2002-04-03 Thread Bob Wooden
Having trouble getting my workstation speakers to emit sound. I cannot figure out the DMA address for my SoundBlaster 16 PCI card. I know the I/O address and the IRQ address. Does anyone know how to determine the DMA assignment?