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Kaiser_Sleeps<grin> i just found all my edubuntu-devel email!12:06
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Kaiser_Sleepsit was in ubuntu-devel :/ 12:07
ograimprove your filters :)12:07
Kaiser_Sleepsogra: i just did :)12:07
Kaiser_Sleepsbblish12:08
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sniffhey peeps!06:50
sniffI just setup an edubuntu server!06:50
sniffamazing06:51
jsgotangconice ;)07:03
sniffthere is a problem, a client can start to load up from the server but then stops :(:(:(:(:(:(:(:(07:04
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sniffit says "Begin: running /scripts/nfs-premount.....07:07
sniff[05:54]  <sniff> then it says "done"07:07
sniff the system stops there07:07
sniffjsgotangco can u suggest anything i might do?07:10
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highvoltagesniff: is this the first client you booted from the server?07:15
highvoltagesniff: you might just need to restart07:15
highvoltage(the client)07:15
sniffok07:20
sniffi will try07:20
sniffit is the first time i booted from the server07:20
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sniffhey09:09
sniffi got the edubuntu ltsp server running and it looks fab. But when the clients load up their fonts and icons are different, doesn't really look any good, does anyone know why this may be?09:10
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sniffhello peeps? can anyone help please?09:29
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ograsniff, i assume you use the same user on all clients ... gnome-settings-daemon has a bug that prevents it from working if you are logged in multiple times with the same user ...09:42
ogrause different users09:42
jsgotangcoogra, hmmm still some issues with lsb09:43
ograjsgotangco, the buildds are broken since 2 days ...09:44
ogranot much i can do09:44
jsgotangco:/09:44
ograthe amd64 lsb breakage is something different btw ...09:44
jsgotangcoi'll just do the live first09:44
ograits caused by oversizing ...09:44
ogralive didnt change either due to no buildds running ...09:45
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jsgotangcoogra, edubuntu live seems fine though...10:17
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ograyes, it wont have changed since last time yoou tried ... :)10:17
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jsgotangcothe only difference is that im testing it in a pentium d system now10:18
ograoh, ah :)10:20
spaceyogra: btw, willow works fine in production :)10:25
ograyay10:25
spaceynever crasht at least10:25
spacey:)10:25
ograthere is still the issue with python-profiler ... i'd really love to know if thats really needed ...10:26
ograit would keep it in multiverse :(10:26
spaceythe multiverse thingy10:26
spaceyye10:26
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signifer123morn...10:27
ograbut i'm to busy with ltsp and CD builds and that wont change before feature freeze10:27
spaceyif i could do python i would help :p10:27
spaceybut i never touched it10:27
ograi'll look at it, but there is not much chance to get it into dapper after feature freeze10:28
jsgotangcohmm how does Gnome chemistry utils fare?10:29
ograthere is a lot going on in MOTUSience wrt gnome chemistry utils ...10:29
spaceymaybe someone else here has python skill?10:35
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simondawesneed advice pleas. downloaded Edubuntu i386 ISO image twice now. burnt to CD using ISO settings .Tied to install but takes for ever seems to just lock up half way through. i know its not a harware problem as similar downloaded Ubuntu and burn installs fine10:45
jsgotangcobreezy?10:46
TOZTWOhttps://wiki.edubuntu.org/EdubuntuInstallNotes says under Known Issues.....10:49
TOZTWO"During install while the LTSP client environment is being set up, the progress reporting is a bit poor (expect this step to take about 10 min)."10:49
ograyeah...10:49
ograyou can switch to tty3 (alt-f3) to see more progress10:50
simondawesI'll try this thanks10:51
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SiennaLizardHello everyone. Has anyone done an Edubuntu LTSP install here? Maybe for a school?11:42
SiennaLizardOr are we all holding out for Dapper?11:42
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ograSiennaLizard, there are several schools using edubuntu 11:54
ogradapper will have a lot of improvements in ltsp though ... 90% of development in edubuntu happened in tlsp this relase cycle11:55
ogra*ltsp11:55
SiennaLizardCheers, Ogra. That's very good news. It's just things like audio that I don't fully understand with ltsp. I'd rather like to get a load of thin clients for this school I'm working for, but it would be the anciliary things like the local device stuff (sound, USB) that kept me from doing a full roll-out.12:13
ogralocal devices were deferred for next release ... sound is in ...12:14
SiennaLizardare there any thin clients you'd particularly recommend to work with ltsp? What have you used for testing?12:14
SiennaLizardi've been practicing with boot floppies and old laptops at the moment...12:14
ograthe via C3 based ones i tested here are very slow ... 12:15
ograbooting my amd64 laptop as thin client takes only 15sec though ...12:15
ograi'd recommend something PIII based with at least 64MB better 128MB 12:16
ograPII should also be fine ... 12:17
ograbut the fully integrated CPU/sound/graphics based clients really suck ...12:17
signifer123p2 are like 300 mhz :-P12:17
ograthats fine 12:18
signifer123thin client?12:18
ograyup12:18
signifer123i thoguht it was full client :-p12:18
SiennaLizardfat client? 12:18
ograi mean 500Mhz is still better, but 300 will suffice ...12:18
ograi havent done anyy testing with fat clients ...12:18
SiennaLizardright. cheers, Ogra.12:18
signifer123standalone pc not fat or thin or dumb :-p12:19
ograbut 126MB upwards should do ...12:19
ograand ~5-600Mhz ...12:19
signifer123you guys have a thin client gui yet?12:20
signifer123for automating mroe of the setup etc...12:20
ograhttp://people.ubuntu.com/~ogra/LTSPManager/12:21
ograworking on it for dapper+112:21
ografeel free to help ;)12:21
signifer123far enough that its in 6.04?12:22
ogradapper+1 is 6.1012:23
signifer123ok12:23
ograonly the dhcpd.conf editing works so far, i have no time to work on gui stuff currently, need to get all these new nifty features into ltsp first :)12:23
signifer123:_p12:24
ograthen i can add guis for everything ;)12:24
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signifer123:)12:27
signifer123it won't let me add login sessions :(12:27
ogra?12:28
ograwhats "it" ?12:28
signifer123LTSP manager?12:29
signifer123does it save yet?12:29
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ogranope12:29
ograas i said, the only working thing yet is the dhcpd.conf handling ...12:29
ograadding the lts.conf handling is easy as well ...12:30
signifer123ohh...12:30
signifer123well i don't know anything about either config so i couldn't really help that much :-P12:30
ograbut the login session stuff needs to be prepared in ldm first ... 50% of the code is in there already, but the other 50% are missing12:30
ogra(ldm heeds a config or session file and code that reads it)12:31
ogra*needs12:32
signifer123hows the student cp doing? http://people.ubuntu.com/~ogra/edubuntu/student-control-panel_shot.png12:32
signifer123dahh.... it crashed...12:33
ograi'll cut out the buttons for vnc and remote execution, so its basically usable for monitoring students and logging them out in dapper ...12:33
signifer123ok...12:33
_sniffhey i'm a teacher in china, i'm looking to convert a school's systems to this edubuntu. I must say the idea is fantastic. Right now I;m running a vm network consisting of client and edubuntu server. But there are some problems....12:34
_sniffmost noticeably is that the client has different fonts and the icon scheme is different (much less interesting looking). Also during boot several problems are found with temp files etc.12:35
_sniffany ideas on how to fix these up? I don't wanna roll this out on 200 systems only to find it has some quirks that i don't know how to iron out12:36
ogra_sniff, there is a bug in gnome that breaks icon themes if you use the same user twice ...12:36
ogrause different users and it should be fine12:36
_sniffok and what about the fonts?12:36
ograthats related 12:37
_sniffalso i don't quite understand about using the same user twice... does this mean each time someone logs on to the computer i must create a new user account?12:37
ograthere is a tool called gnome-settings-daemon that cares for themes, fonts and icons ... it has the bug ...12:37
ograyou should have an account for every student ...12:38
_sniffthis isn't the setup i was after12:38
ograthere is a bug filed in gnomes bugzilla about it, but i dont know how fast they'll fix it 12:38
_sniffactually my test network only has one client so how did i use the same user twice?12:38
ograyou are logged in on the server and on the client with the same user i guess12:39
_sniffah i think that's right12:39
ogra:)12:39
_sniffi'm a bit dumb!12:39
_sniffok12:39
_snifftwo other things that bug me.... one is: if a client doesn't support network boot what options are there for starting it up to recognize the network?12:40
ograhttps://wiki.edubuntu.org/EdubuntuDocumentation/BootingClientsWithoutPxe12:41
ogra:)12:41
_sniffwhat would i have to do to a stanrd ubuntu/kubuntu installation to make it work the same as edubuntu with regards the serving a clienting (i don't want all the games etc)12:42
ogracheck the wiki for ThinClientHowto12:43
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_sniffis it possible to use the installation cd of edubuntu to install a few files on to potential clients so they can boot and use the server.... or must rom images be made?12:46
ograyou will need the rom images from rom-o-matic# ...12:47
_sniffok understood12:47
_sniffsorry, but what does it involve to convert and installation of kubuntu or ubuntu into a server so that it can work similarly to edubuntu?  Is it a lot of work?#12:48
ograsee the ThinClientHowto ... its in fact only five steps you need to do 12:49
ograits all on the wiki12:49
_sniffthe page doesn't load for me...12:49
_sniffhmm12:50
_sniffisn't it ltsp server setu?12:50
ograhttps://wiki.edubuntu.org/ThinClientHowto12:50
_sniffah12:50
_sniffogra are u running ubuntu/kubuntu now?12:50
_sniffthank you that work12:50
ogra_sniff, i'm writing the ltsp fot it :)12:51
ograso yes, i run it 12:51
_sniffkubuntu?12:51
_sniffubuntu?12:51
ograltsp is the same for all three ...12:51
ograbut i develop edubuntu as well ...12:51
_sniffwell12:52
ograi run ubuntu on the laptop i'm currently on... but have also several edubuntu installations here12:52
_sniffi wish the icon theme from edubuntu could be used in ubuntu as standard, it's much less drab12:52
ograyou can just install gartoon-icon-theme and select it :)12:53
ograthe package is in ubuntu as well 12:53
_sniffgartoon12:54
_sniffok that's ace12:54
_sniffam i right in thinking gnome has a substantially lower drain on system resources?12:54
_sniffthan hde?12:54
_sniffkde12:54
ogranot substantially ... but its less, yes 12:55
ograKDE will eat about 150MB per thin client on the server, gnome is happy with about 12012:55
_sniffhmm?12:55
_sniffthe server needs 150mb of ram per client connected?12:56
ograwith KDE 12:56
ogra(not connected but per logged in user)12:56
ogragnome only needs 100-12012:56
_sniffso 50 clients=  6gb ram?12:57
ograif you want it really low profile, use xubuntu-desktop (xfce)12:57
ograyes, about that size ...12:57
_sniffjesus12:57
_sniffthat's impossible here12:57
ograbut only if they are logged in simultaneously12:57
_sniffmmm well the reason why we have 50 computers is because we need that many12:58
ograso install xubuntu-desktop, that has a way smaller memory footprint (didnt measure how much, but 32-64MB shoudl be ok)12:58
signifer1232 gig ram 5 gig swap?12:58
ograyou wont be happy if the machine starts swapping ...12:58
SiennaLizardis that strictly true, ogra? doesn't linux share loaded code between processes to some extent?12:59
_sniffmmm how do i get the desktop to change to xfce12:59
ograSiennaLizard, yes, thats already in that numbers ...12:59
ogra_sniff, just install xubuntu-desktop, it should just work ...12:59
SiennaLizardgawd.12:59
ograSiennaLizard, there is a table with exact numbers from highvoltage (jonathan carter) on the edubuntu-devel mailing list, look it up in the archive ...01:00
_sniffwhat if one is running a vanilla installation of kubuntu or ubuntu... how much does kde and gnome need>?01:01
_sniffnot ltsp or anything01:01
ogranot less than 256MB 01:01
ograand a decent amount of CPU speed01:01
ograyou *can* run it with 128, but thats no fun at all 01:02
signifer123evne if you use openbox or ion ?01:02
signifer123even*01:02
ograand will start swapping as soon as you open more than 2 websites in firefox01:02
ograsignifer123, that was not the question :)01:02
ograindeed a *box windowmanager running standalone will need much... but you loose a lot in usability01:03
signifer123ogra, i know but i thought maybe the lesser ones would run faster on lower system...01:03
signifer123bit late :-p01:03
_sniffwhat does gnome need? and what does kde  need?01:03
ograand in case you start a gnome or kde program, it still loads all the librarys and tools that are needed in the background01:03
ogra_sniff, standalone ? 01:04
_sniffyes01:04
ograsee above ... 01:04
_sniffkde and gnome have the same memory requirements?01:04
ograwo work fluid with them i'd recommend at least 256MB 01:04
ogragnome has a bit less memory reqs ...01:04
_sniffthese memory requirements are greater than win xp01:05
ograbut i wouldnt run either of them with 128MB if you dont want unhappy users01:05
_sniffmm i see01:05
ograit runs with 128MB ...01:05
signifer123knoppix says you cna run it with kde at 96 mb01:05
ograsignifer123, a recent one ? 01:05
_sniffwhat would you use for shit computers with like 64mb?01:05
ogra_sniff, ltsp and a powerful server01:06
signifer123*box01:06
signifer123or that^^01:06
_sniffbut standalone systems01:06
ogra_sniff, xfce might work fine with 64MB ... i never tried it on such small systems 01:06
_sniffmy friend has a gay computer with 64mb, if i change it from windows to linux, what can be done?01:06
_sniffah alright01:07
ogrause a "server" install (its in fact a minimal install with a weird name) and install xubuntu-desktop01:07
ograxubuntu is for low profile systems01:07
_sniffi see01:07
ograbut i dont know how low that goes01:08
_sniffthanks for that01:08
_sniffsounds about what i was looking for01:08
_sniffguess we'll find out01:08
ograyes01:08
ograwould be nice if you could report back, so we'd have some hints on the wiki for other people in the same situation 01:08
signifer123Thinkpad 600E01:08
signifer123PII 400MHz01:08
signifer123128 MB RAM01:08
signifer1236 GB hard drive --works decently01:08
_sniffi hope to god ubuntu doesn't go the same way as suse. Suse used to be my fave but it's got so much damn eyecandy it goes like a turtle01:08
SiennaLizardogra, those stats were interesting, but not as off-putting as I thought they would be. The Mall school in Richmond used a dual-core system with 2 gigs of RAM to deal with 20 machines, or so, so that adds up nicely.01:08
signifer123s odoes 64 meg p45001:09
signifer123so does*01:09
ograSiennaLizard, the shared mem might scale with the amount of users....01:09
SiennaLizard_sniff the nice thing about Ubuntu is you can choose your eyecandy and your window manager just through adding the packages with synaptic and restarting GDM.01:10
_sniffare the error messagaes that i see when starting a thin client anything to worry about?  Things like could not mount tmp directory etc.?01:10
SiennaLizard_sniff, when you log in, pick the WM you want out of the sessions list.01:10
ogra_sniff, nope 01:10
_sniffyeah but i like kde etc01:10
_sniffso why does it write in big RED letters fail, when actually it doesn't matter01:11
ogra_sniff, they are caused by starting (in ltsp unused) services on a read only filesystem ...01:11
_sniffallright that's fantastic new01:11
_sniffnews01:11
ograthe errors (and the services) are gone in the next release :)01:11
SiennaLizardogra, one of the messages refers to a fsck problem. Are there modifications that I could make to stop these checks trying to run?01:11
_sniffok cool stuff01:11
SiennaLizardogra. ahh. you've answered my question!01:11
ograand in fact ltsp has a bootsplash now that would hide tham anyway :)01:12
_sniffwow a boot splash would be appreciated01:12
SiennaLizardthat's very good news.01:12
ograits in the dapper release (6.04)01:12
_sniffhow do you guys reply to a certain user in this irc?01:12
_sniffi haven't used irc before a few days ago01:13
_sniffi'm using Konversation01:13
ogra_sniff, you mean the highlighting ? 01:13
_sniffyes01:13
ograjust say the name of the user in front of your sentencs01:13
_sniffit automaticall puts USERNAME, xxxxxxxx01:13
ograthe client highlights the line then 01:13
_sniffyou must type it?01:13
ograyes01:13
ogra_sniff, 01:13
_sniffannoying01:13
ograsee01:13
_sniffbut that's so hard01:13
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ogratry with the first three letters and hit the tab key01:14
ogra+or two ...01:14
_sniffogra: 01:14
ogradepends hown many people with a similar name are in the room 01:14
_sniff+ or two?01:14
ogra_sniff, :)01:14
_sniffog  01:14
_sniffogra: 01:14
_sniffah i see01:14
ograin this room o+tab would suffice to catch me01:15
_sniffogra: 01:15
_sniffyeah that's right01:15
ogras requires at least 3 letters here 01:15
_sniffok that's somewhat easier01:15
_sniffhow do i set my ubuntu up to be a dhcp server>01:18
_sniffso that i can use ltsp?01:18
SiennaLizardjust press tab more times to move through them.01:18
SiennaLizard_sniff, you can either use the standalone package.01:18
ogra_sniff, ThinClientHowto explains it 01:18
SiennaLizard_sniff, or use a dhcp server you've already got running on that box01:19
_snifferm01:19
_sniffjust installing ltsp starts a dhcp server rigth?01:19
SiennaLizardI'm using the standalone one quite succesfully.01:19
ogra_sniff, yes, but you need to adjust the config as described in the howto or in https://wiki.edubuntu.org/LTSPServerSetup01:20
_sniffthis is really cool, i wanted to set this up at home, where we have 3 computers, 1 of which can be a ltsp server. Using ubuntu means I don't give my parents a bunch of kids games to look at01:20
SiennaLizardyou can start it with /etc/init.d/dhcp3-server01:20
SiennaLizardsorry, /etc/init.d/dhcp3-server01:20
SiennaLizard restart01:20
_sniffwhat about setting up a dedicated dhcp server on the machine?01:21
SiennaLizardthat's part of the ltsp standalone package.01:21
SiennaLizard_sniff, I think you need to get a non-production box and the howto, and have a go. That's all I did, and I'm no pro :-)01:22
_sniffwouldn't it be ok to include a package selection in ubuntu installation so ltsp can be installed first. And also can replace evolution with tbord etc01:22
_sniffalright i'm all for having a crack01:22
ograhave a look at kickstart, that enables such setups ...01:22
_sniffcan't get another box, but i'm running 3 vms on my laptop as we speak, right now i'm inside a kubuntu vm01:23
_sniffkickstart is where?01:23
_sniffah01:23
_sniffin wiki01:24
ogra:)01:24
_sniffi would wipe windows off my laptop completely and just run ubuntu, but i can't get the sound to work01:25
_sniffor 3d acceleration01:25
_sniffor 5 button mouse01:25
_sniffor hotplugging usb01:25
_sniffor play mp3s01:26
ograsounds like you have a faily old laptop with broken acpi ...01:26
_sniffno01:26
ogratry booting with noacpi ...01:26
_sniffsony vaio fs-115e, bought it several months ago01:26
ograapart from mp3 the other stuff works for 98% of our users01:26
ogramp3 needs some manual intervention... since we cant legally ship the codec01:27
_sniffalso, when i want to restart or shutdown the system sends the Sigkill or whatever, and that's it a blank screen... and never restarts01:27
ograthats acip 01:27
ogra*acpi01:27
_sniffso i disable it?01:27
_sniffinstall with no acpi is this what i must do?01:27
ograyes, try that ... just add noacpi to the end of our kernel line on boot (hit esc if grub shows up, then you can edit it on the fly)01:28
ogra*our/your 01:28
_sniffwhen grub shows i hit esc01:28
ograyep01:29
_sniffit it possible for me to adjust screen brightness?01:29
ograthen you have the option to edit the kernel line ...01:29
_sniffok i edit the kernel line with "no acpi" ?01:29
ograi think so ... but i have no recent sony hardware here 01:29
_sniffin my ubuntu system it detects my screen and gives me a slider to adjust the brightness but it makes no difference01:30
_sniffthe fn keys don't work either01:30
ogradid you report a bug, so the developer can fix it ? 01:30
_sniffno01:30
_sniffwhich one should i report?01:30
ogrado that then ;) 01:30
_sniffso many things that don't work01:30
_sniffthe latest suse (10) most things work, apart from screen brightness. Also i have sound but the system mixer and volume control on the app have no effect01:31
ogramost of them are related to the fact that sony ships broken acpi BIOSes that report wrong values ...01:31
ograas i said, you can work around that by disabling acpi ...01:32
_sniffwhat benefits do i lose by disabling acpi?01:32
ograno idea, i usually dont buy broken hardware ... 01:32
ograbut i guess power management will suffer a bit01:33
_sniffi guess non of it is working at the moment anyway01:33
_sniffthe only thing that seems to be ok, is hibernating01:33
ograsomebody should kick sony for not being standard compliant ...01:34
_sniffbut like i said ubuntu cannot even restart or shutdown my system (mandriva, suse and auditor all can do this!)01:34
_sniffso which manufacturers of laptops are standard compliant or have a high chance of working with linux?01:34
ograthat will work with the noacpi option ...01:34
ograi guess sound will as well01:34
ograibm is fine, dell is about 70% good, 30% crap ... toshiba is fine apart from having a strange hotkey handling etc ...01:35
ograthere are lists on the wiki01:35
_sniffmmm i dislike ibm01:35
_sniffdell are one of the most gay companies01:36
_sniffand i've got nothing against toshiba01:36
ograsome acers might be fine as well ... i have one that works fine with recent kernels, but is a bit buggy with older ones ...01:36
_sniffmmmm i've seen quite a few decent acer laptops i reckon they're good01:37
_sniffok so do i need to do "no acpi" every system restart?01:37
ogranope, if it works with the test (its noacpi without space btw) you can add it to your grub setup... see the wiki 01:38
_sniffthe wiki01:38
ograyes :)01:38
_sniffi search for acpi and get 0 results01:38
ogralook at the laptop stuff, sorry i have a meeting now...01:39
_sniffalright01:39
_sniffbut thank you very much for so much help01:40
_sniffreally appreciate it01:40
ograits all in the wiki ... anywhere :)01:40
_sniffhey01:50
_sniffcan internet users connect to a ltsp server?01:50
_sniffi mean is it a security vulnerability at all running ltsp?01:50
signifer123depends on your setup01:51
signifer123network setup01:51
signifer123or config setup01:51
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signifer123commonly configuration o01:53
signifer123no01:53
signifer123unless the hacker spends his life porting all of the apps he needs to forge ip's01:54
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jsgotangcoogra, hey what do we call our installation for workstation/server? types? modes? eh?02:45
ogra?02:46
ogracan you elaborate ?02:47
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jsgotangcoogra, what do we call them, "workstation mode" "workstation install" "workstation type"02:48
jsgotangco"server mode" "server install" "server type (of install)"02:49
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=== jsgotangco is rather finicky for an article lately
jsgotangcoor maybe i'm just being too detailed02:50
ograi'd say server install 02:50
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YagisanI'd go for install too myself02:50
ograbut i'm still discussing that to be renamed to minimal install02:50
jsgotangcoyes instead of server02:50
ograits a sabdfl decision thats not easy to change02:51
jsgotangcoargghh02:51
ograsee the thread in ubuntu-devel from ~2 months ago02:51
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flintogra, you awake?02:57
ograflint, yes but pretty busy, i just broke my main machine02:58
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flinthighvoltage, jonathan did is spell it right this morning...02:58
highvoltageflint: :)02:58
flintogra, excellent.  jut a little good news, the only part of flight 3.1 that did not work was the chroot (and the serial mouse)02:59
ograyup02:59
highvoltagehmmm. how do i make someone permanent opps...02:59
ograi know02:59
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ograhighvoltage, i doubt thats permanent02:59
flinti excpect the serial mouse not to work.  I will tell you why that is important.... if you are interested.02:59
ograi know why thats important02:59
zakamehi all03:00
flintogra, ollie, when you say broken, did you use a hammer, axe or shotgun? :^)03:00
ograthats why i did put a whole day into getting inputattach in shape at the london distro sprint03:00
ograflint, something wiped my HD ...03:00
flintogra, i realise that I am distressingly cheerful about your progress but...03:00
flintogra, that is harsh.  ok I am going to stop this and do mondo/mindy for the rest of the day.  You are an inspiration ollie!!!03:01
ograflint, i'll ping the mailing list if there is a usable CD to test ... currnetly the whole gnome gets updated, there is no point in CD testing today03:02
flintjust glad to finally be able to report in... thanks.  will hassle some other innocent developer in the mean time...03:03
flintogra, a cigi break is in order eh?03:03
=== jsgotangco guess this is not a good time to ask about hwdb
jsgotangco:D03:11
ograjsgotangco, ask03:15
ograflint, i had 5 cigarettes in 2 minutes ... :)03:16
ograall saved, everything in order again 03:16
jsgotangcoogra, is it still updated?03:16
ograDONT TEST TODAYS i386 CD !!!03:16
jsgotangcoyay03:16
ograjsgotangco, yup03:17
jsgotangcoogra, i mean the application not the db :D03:17
ogra199865 datasets ...03:17
jsgotangcodoes it still reside in your machine somewhere?03:17
ograit will see some bugfixes for dapper03:17
ograyup, but i have a new machine with tape backup and mirrored scsi drives as well as a backup here ...03:18
jsgotangcoogra, the reason i ask is that we don't have a definitive HCL and that data could be useful...03:18
ograso the data is safe ... i'll see when i get time for the sql stuff03:18
ograyou can access the datasets directly ...03:18
ograwget http://hwdb.ubuntu.com/fe203971e939f3d14440e3257d5ead06.xml.bz2 will get you the dataset locally 03:19
jsgotangcothat's a lot :D03:19
ograespecially if you think about the fact that its all in a single folder :)03:19
jsgotangcoarghhh03:20
ograits a real ext3 stresstest ...03:20
jsgotangcohow do you decrpyt each dataset?03:20
ogra(thats why i had to care for backing up everything ;) )03:20
ograits not encrypted ... just open it in an editor03:20
jsgotangcohrmm03:21
jsgotangcothis could pose a challenge03:21
ograbut dont do a wget http://hwdb.ubuntu.com/*.xml.bz2 please, it will make me poor and need 5.5G on your disk03:21
jsgotangcodoh..and i was supposed to paste it just now03:22
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ograi have a dvd backup here that goes up to 170000 i could send you ...03:23
ograthe missing 20000 sets will mainly be dapper ...03:24
jsgotangcowell even just 10 of the dataset will do i'm just thinking of wa y to make it presentable03:24
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ograyeah, so pull some sets ...03:24
ograi was thinking about a parser that presents the logs additionally to cpu and mem at least ...03:25
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Yagisanogra: excuse the dumb question - but what is this hwdb you are talking about ?03:25
ograhwdb.ubuntu.com+03:26
ograerr omit the +03:26
jsgotangcoSubmissions Total: 199865 Today: 2545903:27
jsgotangcowow is that Today real?03:27
ograyeahm the cronjob isnt running03:27
ogranope03:27
ogradaily is about 500 to 800 ... depending on the day03:27
ograweekends are less03:27
jsgotangcoand it spikes upon release03:27
ograup to 1500 03:28
jsgotangco1500 machines sold to damnation not bad03:28
zakamedamnation?03:30
Yagisanum - what's the use of this hwdb ?03:30
ograYagisan, you have a hwdb client app in the systemtools menu ...03:30
jsgotangcoYagisan, its ogra's little spyware03:31
jsgotangcojoke03:31
ograit collects all data from the device manager, dmesg and xorg logs and does a little questionnaire03:31
jsgotangco(its actually optional)03:31
ograoh, and xorg.config ...03:31
jsgotangcoyeah03:31
Yagisanwell - if I had a default install I would, but I don't. Does it work on headless boxes ?03:31
ogranope03:32
jsgotangconope03:32
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jsgotangco(that's actually a good idea though)03:32
ograif you have a non headless box, install hwdb-client03:32
ograjsgotangco, its planned for the rewrite i want to do since breezy 03:32
Yagisanoh - I'll run it on my ltsp server then03:32
Yagisanall the others will missout - and they have some interesting things in them03:33
jsgotangco199865 datasets is the ultimate HCL list though if properply formatted03:33
Yagisan(can you say geforce4 in a p2 233 - overkill there)03:33
jsgotangcolol03:33
jsgotangcopoor GPU03:33
ograyou could try to use the gpu as fpu :)03:34
ograjust patch the kernel a bit 03:34
Yagisanit was all I had left in my spare parts box03:34
jsgotangcoboy would i love to dig in to your spare parts box03:34
=== Yagisan likes ogra's idea. have a patch for me ;)
ogralol03:34
ograno kernel hacker, sorry :)03:35
jsgotangcoyou don't get a geforce4 in a box everyday03:35
jsgotangcoogra, seriously though, i'd like to branch the hwdb-client...and just study for now...03:35
Yagisanjsgotangco: It has parts from my first 286 to whatever survived the last power surge/storm/flood/act of god/child so it is an eclectic collection of parts03:36
ograthe client is in my bzr archive on people.u.c03:36
ograthe server is a 100 line python script ...03:36
ogra(or less, never counted lines there)03:36
jsgotangcoyeah03:36
ogradont expect anything, the code is a weird mess ...03:38
bobulatorhey... anyone got any idea why this thin client wont accept a password?03:38
jsgotangcohrmmm wlan detection03:38
ograbobulator, check /opt/ltsp/i386/etc/ssh/ssh_known_hosts03:39
bobulatorta...03:39
jsgotangcooh cool it even has sean's manual03:39
ograbobulator, there should be a line for your current host ...03:39
ograif you changed the ip of the interface the thin clients are on post install, you need to run sudo ltsp-update-sshkeys again ...03:40
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bobulatori dont think i changed the ip address, but the only ip addresses in there are the server03:41
bobulatorit gets loads of write errors when it boots too?03:42
ograyes, thats fixed in dapper ...03:42
ograits cause because in breezy you still use a complete default system and the apps are not designed to run on a readonly system ...03:42
bobulatoris dapper still beta?03:43
ogranone of the apps that start with an error is used, its just cosmetic and slows down the boot03:43
ograyup03:43
bobulatorand how can i fix it? 8)03:43
ograwait for dapper ? 03:44
bobulator:p03:44
ograyou can install usplash in the client chroot ...03:44
ograthat will hide about 50% of the errors03:44
bobulatorwhy is it doing it anyway?03:44
ograread above03:44
bobulatorohhhh03:44
bobulatori gets ya, ok03:44
ogra:)03:44
bobulatorso how do i do that usplash thing?03:45
ograi've thrown out all unneeded services in dapper and fixed the remaining ones  ...03:45
ograno errors in dapper ...03:45
bobulatorcool :D03:45
ograsudo chroot /opt/ltsp/i386 apt-get install usplash03:45
ograshould do it ...03:45
ograworst case you need to copy the sources.list from the server and run apt-get update with the same chroot command ... in case it doesnt work ...03:46
bobulatorhmm it wont get the package03:47
ograwhats the error ? 03:47
bobulator'unable to fetch some archives;03:47
bobulatorlooks like its trying to get it off a cd?03:48
bobulatoroooh, maybe ive not edited the sources list03:48
ograyes, as i told you ... copy the sources.list and follow the advise ...03:48
bobulatorok... im on the server now. not sure what you mean? sorry...03:49
bobulatorjust edit in the backports?03:49
ogranope03:49
ograsudo cp /etc/apt/sources.list /opt/ltsp/i386/etc/apt03:49
ograsudo chroot /opt/ltsp/i386 apt-get update03:49
ograsudo chroot /opt/ltsp/i386 apt-get install usplash03:49
mhzJaneW: hi, ping03:51
bobulatorhmm its still trying to get from the cd?03:51
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ogramhz, she's ill03:52
mhzogra: oooh, thx03:52
ograspacey, eek, that will need evil hacks to ldm03:52
spaceyhehe, we gonna fix it up with old style ltsp. shouldn't be too hard03:53
spaceywith that03:53
flintogra, what's up with JaneW?03:53
spaceygdm has the functionality03:53
ograah, k... gdm should work03:53
ograflint, a cold with fever etc03:53
spaceyogra: but it would be a useful feature in the future for ldm :P03:54
flintogra, bummer...03:54
spaceyalthough you would need a different approach03:54
spaceyi guess03:54
ograspacey, pretty hard to do secure 03:54
spaceyyeh03:55
spaceyas far as autologin is secure :)03:55
ograheh03:55
spaceybesides that i mean03:55
spacey:p03:55
ograthe thing is that you need the password file in the chroot for that ...03:56
ograthats pretty bad03:56
spaceywhy?03:56
spaceythat wouldn't solve anything03:56
ograthe login manager needs to know the sccounts ...03:57
ogra*accounts03:57
spaceyyou can fetch it from hostname i think03:57
spaceyhave to configure the dhcp server to send hostnames to the clients03:57
spaceyand configure the thinclients to fetch that one03:57
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spaceybut since its over ssh, you would need a not so private ssh key to login automaticly03:58
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ograyou still need an account name ...03:59
bobulatorarghhh, compouters are shit03:59
spaceyogra: same as hostname03:59
ograspacey, hmm, that would need a host account for every host ... hard to automate04:00
spaceyjup04:01
spaceybut possible04:01
flintcould you give out the hostname when you give out the lease?04:01
ograflint, i still dont have the account on the server ...04:01
flintogra, i mean the host account could create as part of the lease script... 04:02
ograeeek evil ...04:02
flintogra, I stay up at night practicing stupid questions... :^)04:02
spaceyflint: dhcp server can send the hostname04:02
ograflint, arent you security consultant ? 04:02
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flintogra, note the distinction EX-security consultant.  04:03
ogralol04:03
flintogra, I want to git-er-done... anyway you said it is over a secure pipe04:03
spaceynot really04:03
flintogra, and while it may appear that I am on the pipe with this suggestion...04:03
spaceyif the private key is in the chroot04:04
spaceyor maybe that doesn't matter04:04
spaceyanyway04:04
flintogra, keep in mind that these would be fresh, every time they are made from skel.04:04
=== ogra thinks flint should rather drop the pipe :)
flintogra, aw but is sooo good...04:04
ograheh04:05
flintogra, another bad idea is could I help with the serial mouse problem?04:05
flintogra, got another bad idea...04:05
ograflint, its solved since last week 04:05
flintogra, ...rats...04:06
ograwe just need inputattach on the CD ...04:06
flintoh well back to creating havoc in the universe.  Glad you got your axe back ollie.04:06
ograwhich was shuffled serveral times since we couldnt agree which metapackage it should be in04:07
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ograit found its final place now, but now the CD is broken#04:07
flintogra, the fun never stops...04:08
flintogra, back to mondo/mindi04:08
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bobso ogra, sorry to be so thick, let me get this straight... 1)the reason it wont let us log in is because theres something wrong with the network setup adn its not allowing an ssh session? and 2)the things that fail at startup dont really matter04:23
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ogra2 is right 04:24
ografor 1, you can create a root password in the chroot and check /ver/log/ldm.log on the client ...04:25
ograsudo chroot /opt/ltsp/i386 passwd04:25
bobwhat is the chroot, sorry?04:25
ograthen boot the client and switch to tty1 (ctrl-alt-f1)04:25
ograthere log in as root04:25
ograand check the logfile04:25
bobok, ta...04:26
ogra/opt/ltsp/i386 is the chroot the client mounts via nfs04:26
bobis opt where the clients recieve their image from?04:26
bobah, cool :)04:27
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ograYagisan, we need the opportunity for ops to kick trolls... highvoltage made me an op, no idea why ...04:28
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ogra:)04:29
ograbob, yes, /opt is it ... and with the chroot command you can pretend /opt/ltsp/i386 to be / and perform actions in there04:30
Yagisan:) I find it more fun when the trolls have no idea they are about to be kicked04:30
Yagisananyway I should be in bed04:30
ogranight 04:30
bobahh i gets ya... althjough i think itll take a while to settle in04:31
bobldm.leg is empty04:32
bob.log04:32
boband you meant /var/log/ldm, yeah?04:33
ogra/var/log/ldm.log04:33
ograyup04:34
bobempty04:34
ograyou need to produce the error indeed to have something in ther04:34
bobthis is bad?04:34
ograso try a login first, then look inside the file :)04:34
bobi gets ya :)04:35
bob'didnt get right output from the greeter'04:35
bobwant the rest?04:35
ograsomething ssh related ? 04:35
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bobcant see it... here we go04:36
bob"traceback (msot recent call last)04:36
ogralike "authentication failed" or "remote host closed connection" etc ...04:36
ograugh, traceback ? 04:37
ograthats evil04:37
bobfile "/usr/sbin/ldm, line 93, in ? ldm.run()04:37
ograthats a default edubuntu install ? 04:37
bobyarrr04:37
ogranothing tweaked at all ? 04:38
bobnope... what could we have tweaked by accident?04:38
ograinstalled from the edubuntu breezy iso ? 04:38
bobyup04:38
ograhmm04:38
ograyou cant tweak anything in the chroot without the chroot command i gave you above04:39
bobhmm, maybe me faffing around with the commands you gave me earlier changed something...04:39
bobcould have messed something up04:39
bobhmm the other problem si theres 2 dhcp servers floating around coz the firmware o the router is a tad buggy and you cant turn it off, although im guessing it doesnt matter too much...04:41
ograbut you obviously get the clients booting, so dhcp wont be an issue04:42
bobyeah...04:42
ograwait a second, i have to rush into a meeting04:43
bobthats cool :)04:44
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=== Topic for #edubuntu: Topic for #edubuntu is: The discussion channel for Edubuntu - the education version of Ubuntu, download: http://releases.ubuntu.com/edubuntu/5.10/ | Mailing List http://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/edubuntu-devel | Wiki: http://wiki.edubuntu.org | Website http://www.edubuntu.org | MEETING: 08 Feb at 12:00 UTC | Read before installing: http://wiki.edubuntu.org/EdubuntuInstallNotes| edubuntu flight3 released !
=== Topic (#edubuntu): set by mhz at Sun Feb 5 21:27:12 2006
jsgotangcogood night05:03
bobahha, chroot /opt/ltsp/i386 apt-get update is trying to connect to 1.0.0.0 fo some reason05:08
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paolobHi guys! I changed the network IPs (in /etc/network/interfaces and in /etc/ltsp/dhcpd.conf and in /etc/hosts), and now the clients boot but doesn't permit login in gnome. Any hint?05:43
paolobBefore, the server was 10.152.0.1, and now it's 10.152.0.1005:44
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paolob_Hi guys! Anyone knows if it is possible that the edubuntu server has a IP with the last number <> 1? i.e., could it be 10.152.58.10, or must it be mandatorily 10.152.58.1?05:58
ograpaolob, that doesnt matter ...05:58
ogranote taht you need to run: sudo ltsp-update-sshkeys on the server if you changed the ip 05:58
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signifer123good afternoon10:57
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Lord_Athurhi10:57
Lord_Athurhi signifer123 10:57
Burgworksalut even10:58
Lord_Athurhi Burgwork 10:58
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mhz_dishesogra: can i have your geek opinion on this, please? http://mhz.homelinux.org/tcwiki/MauricioHernandez/ScrapBook/XfceDesktop11:50
mhz_dishesogra: I mean the CSS, unless you like XFCE4 in balck11:50
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