Public bug reported:
Binary package hint: ldm
I'm running up-to-date Karmic; the generated LTSP client fails to run.
Specifically, On VT7 you get continual spamming of the message 'mktemp:
Too few X's in template /var/run/ldm-xauth-<random>/Xauthority'. The
ldmgtkgreeter is restarted in an infinite loop, which is seen in
/var/log/ldm.log
The problem is line 53 in the client image's /usr/share/ltsp/screen.d/ldm
script:
51 XAUTHORITY_DIR=`mktemp -d /var/run/ldm-xauth-XXXXXXXXX`
52 export XAUTHORITY_DIR
53 XAUTHORITY=`mktemp -u ${XAUTHORITY_DIR}/Xauthority`
54 export XAUTHORITY
mktemp expects a string of the format in line 51. Without the multi-char
X string, it fails with the error message already mentioned.
Solution is to replace the 'mktemp' with a 'touch' command, setting the
XAUTHORITY value appropriately. On my machine, this gets me X started -
although the machine then freezes! (laptop, nvidia driver, etc, etc).
** Affects: ldm (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
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Bad scripting causes LDM to fail to start in the client, on karmic
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/409092
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