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Channel log from 23 October 2010   (all times are UTC)

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<alkisg>
!learn gnome-wm as The default window manager in gnome is gnome-wm, which automatically chooses compiz if it thinks that the card supports it, or metacity otherwise. Compiz causes problems to some clients, so forcing it to metacity can solve login problems.
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<ltspbot`>
alkisg: The operation succeeded.
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<alkisg>
!xauthority
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<ltspbot`>
alkisg: "xauthority" :: to access the client X session from a local root shell, try: eval $(tr '\0' '\n' < /proc/$(pidof -s ldm gdm-simple-greeter gnome-session | cut -d' ' -f1)/environ | egrep '^DISPLAY=|^XAUTHORITY=') && export DISPLAY XAUTHORITY
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<Ghidorah>
Good morning everyone.
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<salomon_>
Hello, I' having problems with one ltsp client, sometimes it shows a messages saying "task blocked for more than 120 seconds" when started, other times is does not, but it freezes when lt's loading the desktop, the server has Lenny with xfce
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<berny6969>
hi
12:20
anyone knows how to create usb pen for boot form wireless to ltsp edubuntu? i search in the wikibut dont view nothing,thanks
12:22
<alkisg>
You need to put the wireless drivers to the initramfs, then copy the whole kernel to the usb stick etc. It isn't a trivial task.
12:25
<berny6969>
is trivial task for me Xd,
12:25
thanks for your message
12:26
<alkisg>
Here's how to add the modules: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/UbuntuLTSP/AddingModules
12:26
Then you need to copy the kernel to the stick + pass an "nbdroot=server:ip" parameter to it
12:26
<berny6969>
its the first time for install ltsp and i dont know
12:27
the kernel image its i386.img?
12:27
on /opt/ltsp ?
12:27
<alkisg>
No, it's on /var/lib/tftpboot/ltsp/i386/vmlinuz
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and initrd.img there
12:28
<berny6969>
wireless performance its good?
12:29
<alkisg>
No, it's barely enough for 1 client
12:30
<berny6969>
i want to connect 20 o 30 netbooks form wireless,its impossiblr to work?
12:31
<alkisg>
With the current ltsp code, yes, because it uses X windows, so each client needs about 10-50mbps
12:31
So with a wireless connection of 50mbps, you could only serve 1-2 clients.
12:32
<berny6969>
its more easy to connect to edubuntu server with vnc or rdp? ltsp support rdp?
12:32
sorry for basic questions XD
12:34
<alkisg>
vnc, neatx, freenx etc, sure you can connect with that
12:35
But 30 netbooks on a single wireless connection will suck no matter how you do it :)
12:35
<berny6969>
i use buffalo routers wifi N 300mpbs,and each router its connect to others with cable
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in total 6 routers wifi n
12:36
but if client connect form vnc,italc cant control this connection no?
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<alkisg>
neatx or freenx are easier to handle and need less bandwidth than vnc
12:37
You could make italc work with neatx sessions... maybe they even work out of the box, I don't know
12:38
<berny6969>
thanks alkisg !!!!
12:38
<alkisg>
np, good luck with that :)
12:39
<berny6969>
XD
12:40
I will try to put 30 ethernet cable on the classroom XDDD
12:42
<alkisg>
What I want to do in the future is write the whole ltsp image to 30 sticks, and boot them as fat clients
12:42
So I'll get centralized authentication + NFS homes + iTalc-like class administration tool with very low bandwidth, so that it can work with wireless too.
12:44
<berny6969>
this netbooks have windows xp / linux
12:44
its a spanish college and one student have one netbook free
12:45
its more easy boot on linux partition and connect to neatx etc
12:45
<alkisg>
Yes, but much slower over wireless. You won't be able to even watch youtube this way.
12:46
If they already have linux, why do you want to netboot them?
12:46
Why don't you just setup ldap + nfs or something similar?
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<berny6969>
i know,but teachers knows ltsp and want to use
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for me,only mount ltsp netbook on informatic classroom
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and connect netbooks with italc client and use nfs for network folders
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and the other problem is linux distribution for this netbooks,its a special made for catalan govern of spain
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its very poor
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its opensuse based
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opensuse use kiwi-ltsp,its a diferent version?
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<alkisg>
kiwi-ltsp uses ltsp but it's somewhat different because of the kiwi integration
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<berny6969>
ok,thanks for all !!!!
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<DraZoro>
I get an error message while trying to build clients offline check here for error message http://paste.ubuntu.com/518902/
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Any ideas or tips ^^^
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<mherweg>
try:
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chroot /opt/ltsp/i386 umount /proc
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sudo chroot /opt/ltsp/i386 umount /proc
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<DraZoro>
mherweg : Hi.... I am trying right away
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mherweg : Should I create the i386 directory under /opt/ltsp ?
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<mherweg>
you dont have one ?
15:38
yes. try that
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<DraZoro>
mherweg : It was there but ltsp-build-client was complaining about so I removed and tried again. Hence ending up with an error above .
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mherweg : The system refuse to umount ....
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<mherweg>
if the directory wasnt there, then thers nothing to umount
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<DraZoro>
ok
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<mherweg>
which linux version ?
15:41
<DraZoro>
Ubuntu 10.10
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<mherweg>
i did not try that so far
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<DraZoro>
I performed the command on Ubuntu 9.10 and it worked like a charm
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<DraZoro>
mherweg : But you gave me something to work with ..
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<mherweg>
ltsp-build-client creates /opt/ltsp/i386
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<DraZoro>
Yes I does
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*it
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<mherweg>
this works here on 9.04:
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root@lenovo:/opt# chroot /opt/ltsp/i386 mount -t proc proc /proc
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root@lenovo:/opt# chroot /opt/ltsp/i386 umount /proc
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<DraZoro>
mherweg : Are using the ltsp-build-client with --mirror option ?
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<mherweg>
no. but i doubt that ther's a connection to that error message that you did get
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<alkisg>
DraZoro: when it fails, what do you have in /opt/ltsp/i386? An initial chroot? Or an empty directory?
15:47
<DraZoro>
Yes a lot
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alksig : It is empty
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alkisg : It is empty
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<alkisg>
DraZoro: then maybe it's a problem with debootstrap
15:49
Are you sure that exact line worked in 9.10?
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<DraZoro>
alkisg : Yes I even re-installed 9.10 to double check
15:50* DraZoro is doing something wrong some where
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15:50* DraZoro checks man ltsp-build-client once again
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<alkisg>
Is the server i386?
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<DraZoro>
alkisg : Yes
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<alkisg>
And /opt/ltsp/i386 is completely empty? No etc directory?
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<DraZoro>
alkisg: Nothing
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I have mounted the iso image ....under /media/disk ....maybe this might help http://paste.ubuntu.com/518913/
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The problem lies on this line "W: Failure trying to run: chroot /opt/ltsp/i386 mount -t proc proc /proc "
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Because I fail to run chroot even manually
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mherweg : If I can run the command you gave above the problem might go away.
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<alkisg>
Hmm... and it was working in 9.10 if you specified the loop-mounted cdrom directory, instead of the directory where the packages are?
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(=some subdirectory within the cdrom)
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<DraZoro>
alkisg : Let me try that
15:59
When I put /dev/sr0 as mirror I get "E: Failed getting release file file:///dev/sr0/dists/maverick/Release"
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<alkisg>
No I meant /media/disk/<subdir>
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But ok, maybe it autodetects the path. That's the alternate cdrom, right?
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<DraZoro>
alkisg : My bad ...I wonder which sub directory I will select
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alkisg : Not alternate cdrom ....I used alternate cd for 9.10
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<alkisg>
:)
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<DraZoro>
Now I see the difference
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<alkisg>
Then that's your problem, the packages aren't there on the desktop .iso
16:02* DraZoro kicks himself
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<alkisg>
You need the alternate cdrom as a source
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debootstrap should produce some warning though...
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<DraZoro>
alkisg : I was not away ...I am relieved now
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Guys sorry for all the trouble.
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<alkisg>
np, nice to know that this mirror thing is working with the alternate cdrom :)
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Can be handy for other installatinos
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<DraZoro>
alkisg : I works 100%
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*it
16:05* DraZoro will conduct more research on LTSP mechanism just after exams.
16:05
<DraZoro>
I love this project very much ...LTSP :)
16:05* alkisg too
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<DraZoro>
I love the idea of installing LTSP while installing ubuntu via alternative cd ...
16:07* alkisg prefers installing from the desktop .iso nowadays
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<DraZoro>
Boot alternative cd and press F4 then select LTSP ...
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<DraZoro>
Ok guys let me go back to work ...thanks a lot alkisg and mherweg
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<alkisg>
bb
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<salomon_>
Hi, does anyone know how to aplly the patch to disabel nbd-proxy? http://launchpadlibrarian.net/49591679/disable-nbd-proxy.patch
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<salomon_>
My problem is that one of the clients hangs when loading the desktop, the server is Debian Lenny with XFCE
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<vagrantc>
nbd proxy isn't used on debian at all
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unless you manually configured it to use it
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salomon_: look in the user's ~/.xsession-errors file ... look in /var/log/auth.log to make sure they're actually logging into the server
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<salomon_>
they log into the server
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this are the errors on the log
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x-session-manager: Fatal IO error 11 (Recurso no disponible temporalmente) on X server localhost:11.0.
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xfce-mcs-manager: Fatal IO error 11 (Recurso no disponible temporalmente) on X server localhost:11.0.
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It means Resource not available temporarely
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<vagrantc>
right
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seems a bit odd.
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is X11Forwarding disabled in /etc/ssh/sshd_config?
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salomon_: are you able to "ssh -Y user@server xeyes" from another computer?
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<salomon_>
The strange thing is that it onle happens with one client, the other client works fine :(
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let me check about X11Forwarding
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<vagrantc>
that is strange indeed.
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well, if it works with other clients, that's not the problem ...
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<salomon_>
The 2 clients are diferent, the client that works fine is a PII 400MHZ with 256MB RAM
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<vagrantc>
salomon_: you might want to set SCREEN_07=ldm SCREEN_08=shell SCREEN_DEFAULT=07 in lts.conf
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then you'd get a shell on tty8 to debug what's going on
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look at the logs in the client's /var/log and such
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<salomon_>
ok, I will
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<vagrantc>
might be a similar issue to compiz with gnome, too ..
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<salomon_>
The client that had problem is a PI 233MHZ with 128MB RAM
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<vagrantc>
!compiz
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<ltspbot`>
vagrantc: "compiz" :: if compiz is giving you problems, one way to disable it for all users is: sudo gconftool-2 --direct --config-source xml:readwrite:/etc/gconf/gconf.xml.mandatory --type string --set /desktop/gnome/session/required_components/windowmanager metacity
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<vagrantc>
that's getting pretty old ...
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<salomon_>
I'm using XFCE, I don't thing that uses compiz
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<vagrantc>
i don't know much about compiz, but it seems to cause problems on a few machines
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salomon_: i don't know what else to try off the top of my head, but unfortunately, i've got to go
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<salomon_>
ok, thabnks anyway :)
22:18
I appreciate it
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<vagrantc>
seeing as i maintain ltsp on debian ... i do feel obliged to help a bit :)
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though a lot of the ubuntu folks are pretty savvy with troubleshooting, too :)
22:19
anyways ...
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<salomon_>
I found that the problem is not xserver, it's something else since some times it can't even show the login screen cuz throws an error messages like "INFO: task xxx blocked for more than 120 seconds"
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<abeehc>
what kind of hardware is it
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<salomon_>
The client that hangs on is a Pentium I with 128MB (LTSP just need 32MB, as far as I know), so it is not a memory problem
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some times I can login but it hangs a few seconds, when it is loading the desktop
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<salomon_>
I mean just work for a few seconds, I tryed seting SCREEN_07=ldm SCREEN_08=shell SCREEN_DEFAULT=07 in lts.conf
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so I can change to a terminal and check some logs on the cliente but when it hangs, nothing works, not even the keyboard