http://blog.gmane.org/gmane.linux.ubuntu.user.edubuntu hourly 1 1901-01-01T00:00+00:00 http://gmane.org/img/gmane-25t.png http://gmane.org http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.linux.ubuntu.user.edubuntu/6825 <pre>I am a new user of Edubuntu 12.04. Have installed it on three machines but only one worked out of the box. Problem no 1: With the other 2 machines the *installation does not complete *...it goes thro all the steps and then hangs on the window that has *"Install"* in the grey bar at the top; in fact this is the window that says *"Who are you?*" This is the window that asks for your name/the user name and the password. The only choices that gives is BACK and CONTINUE. When i click on Contiue nothing happens. Why does this window not close? Problem no 2: when I close the above window, and click on Start LTSP live it seems to go thro the motions but again does not close the box "Configuring LTS" Problem no 3: Then when I do a PXE boot connected to the server it goes thro and ask for a user name....etc... I just log in as guest but then it gives me a window with 4 graphics and everything is garbled, ubreadable. Why? Can anyone help me please. donWA </pre> Donald Dirks 2012-05-25T02:38:38 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.linux.ubuntu.user.edubuntu/6819 <pre>Great professional development.  Fantastic instructors.  People like you.  3.0 CEU's from the University of Southern Maine.  Fantastic food and camaraderie.  So much to learn!  Flexibility to do what you want, learn what you want, and participate "hands-on".  Great "after-hours" discussion, conversation, and networking with your colleagues. One price includes EVERYTHING. ALL of this is what makes FOSSed so unique AND what has kept it going for 10 years!  That's right, this is the 10th anniversary of FOSSed and we want you to be a part of it!   The session list is shaping up nicely.  I'm still working on a few loose ends and trying to get a couple more sessions set up to accommodate requests from some of you about things YOU would like to learn about.  FOSSed is all about YOU...making sure YOU get to learn and talk about what YOU want to know.  Participation is not only encouraged...it is the primary principal of which FOSSed is all about. So...join us!  Just $495 covers everything...lod</pre> David Trask 2012-05-21T14:31:22 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.linux.ubuntu.user.edubuntu/6811 <pre>Hello there, I'm used stetting up school computer labs in the following fashion: 1. A group of client computers running windows xp or 7 2. A widows 2003 server with - 2 NICs - lots of ram - a system partition - a hidden partition for log files - a data partition for users - a partition for ISO files and programs that have to eunn from the server. 3. Workstations joined ro the domain forcing users ro login with domain credentials. 4. Roaming or mandatory profiles. 5. Group polocies to enforce certain settings I'd like to try the same thing with edbuntu and ltsp. So , basically, can I 1. Instal edbuntu on a box with lots of ram and partitions (raid5?) 2. Then install LTSI 3. Then star the work stations on PXE mode to connect to the server? </pre> Jeremy Schubert 2012-05-21T00:03:51 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.linux.ubuntu.user.edubuntu/6808 <pre>Pessulus, a lockdown tool, is getting some attention: http://tranzistors.wordpress.com/2012/05/07/being-accepted-in-gsoc-and-revamp-of-pessulus/ -Richard </pre> Richard Doyle 2012-05-11T15:25:28 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.linux.ubuntu.user.edubuntu/6807 <pre>Good Afternoon All, I have two users that had Thunderbird open when the server crashed to the point I had to hard reset it. After it came back up I cleared the lock files in the users home directory preventing it from opening. It opens now, but it will not close cleanly. You can select File-&gt;Quit or click the "X" and Thunderbird will disappear, but if I check top, the process continues to run. It doesn't seem to want to release the lock and .parentlock files. If I manually kill the process, they go away and the user can then reopen. I'm using Thunderbird 11 running LTSP on Ubuntu 10.04. Any one have any ideas or suggestions how to fix this? It has become a pain to have to come in each morning and kill lingering processes for users to work normally. I google searched and haven't come up with anything that works. Any ideas are greatly appreciated. Thanks! Jeff Donaldson Newark Charter School </pre> Donaldson Jeffrey 2012-05-09T18:59:07 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.linux.ubuntu.user.edubuntu/6797 <pre>Hello Edubuntu comunity!   I am new to this forum. Hope to be in the right place to comment my project. If not please tell me where should I go...   My son has an old Compaq desktop (Pentium 4, 512MB RAM, 40GB HD) that he wants to dedicate as a PC for my four grandchildren. He have asked me to help him in this project (I am retired and have plenty of time). These are the main features we are looking for:   1) The system must be robust and stable, I mean "kids proof". We have the experience of give them a Windows based PC and have to reinstall it again. We don't know exactly what did they do, but the fact is that some system critical files were damaged. For this reason my son says that he prefers a Linux based system. It is a common belief that Linux is less vulnerable than Windows, either regarding malicious attack as well as user catastrophic faults. 2) I am not a Linux guy, so the installation and maintenance tasks must be "novice proof". A support channel will be a plus. 3) Since there will be severa</pre> Oscar Rojas 2012-04-27T22:14:25 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.linux.ubuntu.user.edubuntu/6795 <pre>Hello, I hope everyone is doing well. Our school has moved to it's new purpose-built facility and things are working perfectly -- the building was wired so that all network jacks in the building are "home-run" back to the main lan room, where the LTSP server is. Thus the different bottle-necks we used to suffer from using single cable -&gt; switch single cable -&gt; switch are gone. One thing I need to resolve is how to sync the user's files in our old building to our new building. Some of the users still go back and forth, and we have an Edubuntu server at each location. Is there a recommended way to do so? Is it as simple as activating Ubuntu One (since it's built-into Edubuntu) for those users? Or is there something better. The two machines are not identical, so I'd only want to sync the user's files. Thank you very much! Joseph </pre> Joseph Bishay 2012-04-27T17:36:05 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.linux.ubuntu.user.edubuntu/6794 <pre>-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA512 After 6 months of preparation, it's with great pride that the Edubuntu development team announces today the release of Edubuntu 12.04 LTS. As the first Long Term Support release of the Edubuntu project, this version will be supported for 5 years (until April 2017). The Edubuntu development team will also provide "point releases" in sync with Ubuntu's to offer you new installation medias containing all the latest bugfixes. For this release, we focused on stability and bug fixes to deliver the most stable and best translated Edubuntu release ever. You can try it online: http://www.edubuntu.org/weblive or download it: http://www.edubuntu.org/download Additional download links in case the Edubuntu website is overloaded: - http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/edubuntu/releases/12.04/release/ - http://www.stgraber.org/download/releases/edubuntu/12.04/ You can learn more at: http://www.edubuntu.org/news/12.04-release The full release notes are also available at: https:/</pre> Stéphane Graber 2012-04-26T12:04:13 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.linux.ubuntu.user.edubuntu/6793 <pre> Let's Fun Begin... CuBox next to N800. http://www.arkki.info/howto/CuBox/CuBox.png Best Regards Asmo Koskinen. </pre> Asmo Koskinen 2012-04-17T13:06:50 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.linux.ubuntu.user.edubuntu/6792 <pre>LinkedIn ------------ Rana Amit Kumar Navin requested to add you as a connection on LinkedIn: ------------------------------------------ Rani, I'd like to add you to my professional network on LinkedIn. - Rana Amit Kumar Accept invitation from Rana Amit Kumar Navin http://www.linkedin.com/e/vj0haq-h0xp8hi5-3x/X_fBD9ujSUDdEEHZrk0fz0xi7PsXiEOaRkxszruMSgseEz1/blk/I166267425_140/6lColZJrmZznQNdhjRQnOpBtn9QfmhBt71BoSd1p65Lr6lOfP0QclYRczgTdz8Sdz59bRFoj6dEpBhGbP0PdjwTc30RdzoLrCBxbOYWrSlI/EML_comm_afe/?hs=false&amp;tok=0atXF675fmjRc1 View invitation from Rana Amit Kumar Navin http://www.linkedin.com/e/vj0haq-h0xp8hi5-3x/X_fBD9ujSUDdEEHZrk0fz0xi7PsXiEOaRkxszruMSgseEz1/blk/I166267425_140/c3gNnPkOd3sSczoSckALqnpPbOYWrSlI/svi/?hs=false&amp;tok=0lhKig7RDmjRc1 ------------------------------------------ Why might connecting with Rana Amit Kumar Navin be a good idea? Rana Amit Kumar Navin's connections could be useful to you: After accepting Rana Amit Kumar Navin's invitation, check Rana Amit Kumar Navin's conn</pre> Rana Amit Kumar Navin via LinkedIn 2012-04-12T11:02:39 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.linux.ubuntu.user.edubuntu/6790 <pre>Hi, I messed my device names up and managed to lose my thin clients in the process. I'm running 10.04 LTS, by the way. Originally the device facing the Internet (via an Ipcop proxy server) was eth0 and the device facing my clients was eth1. The Internet interface is currently eth1 and, to make room for it, I've shifted the clients to eth2 (by editing /etc/network/interfaces). I updated my ssh image and keys, but the clients are still not making any contact (i.e., they're not booting). Here's my /etc/network/interfaces file: =================== # The loopback network interface auto lo iface lo inet loopback # The primary network interface auto eth2 iface eth2 inet static address 192.168.0.254 netmask 255.255.255.0 =================== And here's the output from ifconfig: =================== eth1 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:a1:b0:00:5b:ce inet addr:192.168.1.24 Bcast:192.168.1.255 Mask:255.255.255.0 inet6 addr: fe80::2a1:b0ff:fe00:5bce/64 Scope:Link UP BROADCAST RUNNI</pre> dbclinton 2012-04-11T17:48:57 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.linux.ubuntu.user.edubuntu/6787 <pre>-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA512 Hello everyone, We're now just 3 weeks away from the final release of Ubuntu 12.04 LTS (and its flavours). Ensuring our installation experience and default desktop is as well translated as possible is one of Edubuntu's goal for this release. We're almost there and it already looks great compared to our previous releases, yet I'm sure we can have it even better. Current packages of interest sorted by priority: == edubuntu-live == Deadline: 19th of April Link: https://translations.launchpad.net/ubuntu/precise/+source/edubuntu-live Note: Can't be translated post-release, part of installer == ubiquity-slideshow-edubuntu == Deadline: 19th of April Link: https://translations.launchpad.net/ubuntu/precise/+source/ubiquity-slideshow-ubuntu/+pots/ubiquity-slideshow-edubuntu Note: Can't be translated post-release, part of installer == epoptes == Deadline: 12th of April Link: https://translations.launchpad.net/epoptes Note: Can't be translated post-release, translati</pre> Stéphane Graber 2012-04-05T13:41:28 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.linux.ubuntu.user.edubuntu/6781 <pre>Hi all, I installed kde on edubuntu server so I can use kde on thin clients. It works fine but I usb keys don't get mount. May anybody help me? Do you notice the same problem? </pre> Valerio Pachera 2012-02-27T20:35:14 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.linux.ubuntu.user.edubuntu/6776 <pre>Good evening every body, our loco team is currently leading a migration project in many schools. we tried Edubuntu 11.10 and there was many little problems that was solved after update. Since we don't have internet in all schools and the project migration should be easy for instructors, we generated an up to date DVD (using Ubuntu Customization Kit). Using the new DVD we did the installation and as a simple desktop it works very well. The problem now is that the server did'nt work. I did not have a lot of time since that day so I'm asking if some one have a script to share with us to help us to (re)configure / start the server. Any help is welcome :) Regards Zied ALAYA LoCo Contact of Ubuntu-tn &lt; at &gt;Zied_ALAYA on Twitter </pre> Zied ALAYA 2012-02-26T15:52:14 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.linux.ubuntu.user.edubuntu/6771 <pre>Hi all, I'm testing fat client on a edubuntu 11.10 server. The fat client has 512MB of ram. Part of them are used by the graphic card (~32). After the boot, it shows ldm. At this point it's using 221MB of ram and 0 of swap. When I try to log in kde, it does it but it crashes soon after. On console (ctrl-alt F1) I see message like "out of memory: killing process...". There is almost no free ram space and 108MB of swap (the total amount of swap) is used. Using "ubuntu 2d" profile, works a bit better (it doesn't crash right away). Swap is not used till I open some applications. Do any of you use fat clients? Which amount of ram do you suggest to use to work fine? </pre> Valerio Pachera 2012-02-21T07:32:45 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.linux.ubuntu.user.edubuntu/6770 <pre>Hi, I just run ltsp-buil-client and I'm testing a fat client. The fat client boots without problem but I can't log in. This is what I get from syslog: Feb 15 16:53:33 extensys-ProLiant-ML310-G2 dhcpd: DHCPOFFER on 192.168.0.27 to e8:0b:af:8f:13:00 via eth0 Feb 15 16:53:33 extensys-ProLiant-ML310-G2 dhcpd: DHCPREQUEST for 192.168.0.27 (192.168.0.254) from e8:0b:af:8f:13:00 via eth0 Feb 15 16:53:33 extensys-ProLiant-ML310-G2 dhcpd: DHCPACK on 192.168.0.27 to e8:0b:af:8f:13:00 via eth0 Feb 15 16:53:33 extensys-ProLiant-ML310-G2 nbd_server[1189]: connect from 192.168.0.27, assigned file is /opt/ltsp/images/i386.img Feb 15 16:53:33 extensys-ProLiant-ML310-G2 nbd_server[1189]: Can't open authorization file (null) (Bad address). Feb 15 16:53:33 extensys-ProLiant-ML310-G2 nbd_server[1189]: Authorized client Feb 15 16:53:33 extensys-ProLiant-ML310-G2 nbd_server[2028]: Starting to serve Feb 15 16:53:33 extensys-ProLiant-ML310-G2 nbd_server[2028]: Size of exported file/device is 1200467968 Feb 15 16:53:41 extensys-Pro</pre> Valerio Pachera 2012-02-15T20:40:33 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.linux.ubuntu.user.edubuntu/6766 <pre>Hi, I'm following this guide: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/UbuntuLTSP/FatClients The build proccess stops with the following mesage: --- Nota, viene selezionato "nfs-common" al posto di "nfs-client" E: Unable to locate package language-support-writing-it umount: /opt/ltsp/i386/proc: device is busy. (In some cases useful info about processes that use the device is found by lsof(8) or fuser(1)) --- I check it: --- root&lt; at &gt;extensys-ProLiant-ML310-G2:/opt/ltsp# lsof /opt/ltsp/i386/proc COMMAND PID USER FD TYPE DEVICE SIZE/OFF NODE NAME rsyslogd 539 syslog 4r REG 0,3 0 4026532033 /proc/kmsg lsof 959 root 3r DIR 0,3 0 1 /proc lsof 959 root 6r DIR 0,3 0 78797 /proc/959/fd acpid 1024 root 4r REG 0,3 0 4026531979 /proc/acpi/event Xorg 1059 root 8w REG 0,3 0 4026531958 /proc/mtrr Xorg 1059 root 13w REG 0,3 0 4026531958 /proc/mtrr </pre> Valerio Pachera 2012-02-15T10:18:30 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.linux.ubuntu.user.edubuntu/6764 <pre>Hi, is it possible to login on a thin client by ssh? I would like to send the command 'halt' from the server. </pre> Valerio Pachera 2012-02-13T15:31:14 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.linux.ubuntu.user.edubuntu/6763 <pre>Hi all, I'm testing alix like thin client. It works fine but, when I shut it down, the monitor doesn't now power off. Mouse and keyboard freeze. The hardware is very similar to this one: http://xercestech.com/alix-single-board-computer.geek but with viedo and audio card. (I'll send the right link when I find it). Do any of you have experience using alix like thin client? </pre> Valerio Pachera 2012-02-13T15:17:54 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.linux.ubuntu.user.edubuntu/6760 <pre>I have run Epoptes and broadcast my desktop to 4 clients and found the refresh on the clients (fat) to be incomplete or too slow. Is there any way to speed up the rate that the lab of 30 clients will refresh? The main use that I had used screen broadcasting for is for demonstrations in my design classes. I like screen broadcasts much for than displaying my screen through an lcd projector. If I maximize then minimize a window over what I'm working on then I everything seems to redraw well. I haven't tried with more than4 fat clients, but I will try 25 this morning... Epoptes looks to be an awesome setup and I'm excited to use it class-wide. Thank you for all of your hard work. </pre> Jim Christiansen 2012-02-10T15:37:29 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.linux.ubuntu.user.edubuntu/6757 <pre>Hi all, if I want to run glxgear on a ltsp client, must it have a graohic card with 3D aceleretion (nvidia/ati) or is the server that must have the good video card? In other words I wonder if the "rendering" is made by the server or the client. Thank you in advance. </pre> Valerio Pachera 2012-02-10T07:36:53 Search the mailing list at Gmane query http://search.gmane.org/?group=$group=gmane.linux.ubuntu.user.edubuntu