[LUAU] Edubuntu thin client screen logon

[Scott E Foulk]

Okay - I will call you back Scott.  Thanks Tim for your info re: this problem.  I will test...

By the way folks, the installs are HOSEF guided.  Sorry I did not mention that - I just assume everyone knows it's HOSEF because I do.

;-)

Thanks again,

Scott

----- Original Message -----
From: "R. Scott Belford" <scott at hosef.org>
Date: Thursday, July 27, 2006 11:04 am
Subject: Re: [LUAU] Edubuntu thin client screen logon
To: LUAU <luau at lists.hosef.org>

> 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
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