[LUAU] Edubuntu thin client screen logon

[R. Scott Belford]

Tim Newsham wrote:
>> One more question here folks, I ( me and Derek Esibill) have installed 
>> Edubuntu LTSP in Derek's science lab and in the new Boy's and Girl's 
>> club here at Kailua Intermediate School.  The thin clients boot up 
>> (with PXELINUX NIC's) to the Edubuntu login screen, but when you 
>> login, the login screen just recycles itself.  It goes away for a 
>> second and then comes right back to login.  Does anyone know how to 
>> get past this problem?
> 
> No idea.  What's happening here is most likely that its executing
> your X server, window manager and clients and they are failing
> (probably the X server itself) because of some configuration issue.
> 
> I usually debug these types of problems by running the X server
> from a command line on the console and seeing what it does.
> An alternative is to find the log file its writing and look over
> that for error messages.
> 
> Sorry I couldn't be more specific.  Hope that helps at least a little..

Scott,

Let's see what sudo showmount -a reveals.  I will be coming through 
Kailua in the next day or two, so we can sort it out in person.


> 
>> Scott Foulk
>> Tech Coordinator
>> Kailua Intermediate School
> 
> Tim Newsham
> http://www.thenewsh.com/~newsham/

--scott