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LaserJockcbx33: what are you doing here? :-)12:24
cbx33hey LaserJock12:27
cbx33um12:27
cbx33waiting to go to bed12:27
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somerville32Is it possible to use VNC to create a session remotely to a LTSP server?01:04
LaserJockhow do you mean?01:05
LaserJockan LTSP server is like an ordinary Ubuntu box so if you have a vncserver (vino perhaps) you can vnc to it01:06
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abackoshi02:38
abackosmy installation stop at Buildin LTSP chroot on Edubuntu 6.10...why? thanks02:38
bimberii recall that it can take a long time.  Is there still Disk activity?02:40
bimberiabackos: hi btw :)02:40
abackosactivity? i try to install edubuntu 6.1002:41
abackosnow it's stopped02:41
abackossorry for my english02:42
bimberiabackos: how long has it been stopped for?02:42
abackosi don't know...2min maybe02:42
abackosah02:43
abackosthe hd?02:43
abackosnever02:43
abackosi have used until 5min ago on an other pc02:43
bimberiit does take some time - give it a while longer02:43
abackosis edubuntu 7.04 alpha1 out?02:44
LaserJockwell, we are almost releasing Herd202:44
abackosi need for tomorrow02:44
abackoscan you link me herd1 please?02:45
abackosor can i skip Build LTSP chroot?02:45
bimberiabackos: http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/edubuntu/releases/feisty/herd-1/02:46
abackosyou think this work?02:47
bimberiabackos: it shouldn't have major bugs, however Feisty is alpha so...02:48
abackosif i skip Build LTSP chroot ...can i resolve later?02:48
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bimberii think so - there is a command to do it, i just don't recall it at the moment02:49
LaserJockI really don't think you want to install Herd102:50
abackoscan i skip "Build LTSP chroot"?02:51
abackosthank you guys ;) i'll try to install another distro...sorry but i don't have many time now02:54
abackossee ya02:54
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LaserJockok02:55
bimberiheh, 'sudo ltsp-build-client --arch i386'02:57
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LoopstarHey Can anyone help me with LTSP05:46
Kamping_KaiserLoopstar, ask your question, and when someone can help they will talk to you05:48
LoopstarThanks Kamping - Havent used IRC before. Have looked at LTSP breifly previously but would like to know if Edubuntu as a LTSP does the server need to be dhcp server or is it to messy if another device provides ip's.05:53
Kamping_Kaiseras long as the otehr server can tell cliens to boot the ltsp server, any system can do dhcp05:54
LoopstarCheers05:59
Kamping_Kaisernp06:00
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jsgotangcoogra: im looking for a new laptop would you recommend something like a macbook? heh01:23
ograjsgotangco, sytem76 ;)01:25
ogra*system7601:25
jsgotangcoheh we don't have that here01:26
jsgotangcoeither i get something cheap from the taiwan brands or good US brand or a better one like Apple's01:27
ograi usually just buy the cheapest one at the next discounter ...01:30
ograbut then i usually buy a new one every year01:31
jsgotangcoheh well im not as "rich" as you haha01:31
ograwell, i pay ~600 once a year instead of 1200 every two years01:32
jsgotangcowell you have a point though01:32
jsgotangcosince we're pretty much power users01:32
ograright01:32
willvdlogra, must admit, wouldn't mind stealing your laptop01:37
ograand i wouldnt cry much about loosing the HW since it was cheap ... only using my work would bother me there01:38
ogra:)01:38
ogras/using/loosing/01:38
jsgotangcoi wish i have enough space here at home to have 1 more desktop01:38
willvdlI love my acer but it lacks suspend and power management01:38
jsgotangcomaybe i should move to a place similar to ogra's01:38
ograjust get a powerful laptop ;)01:38
jsgotangcoacers aren't really that great with power management01:38
ografeel free we have at least 4 empty rooms we dont use at all here01:39
ograacers are crap01:39
jsgotangcoheh01:39
jsgotangcoi almost bought an acer ferrari01:39
ograi had two acers ... on both i had to change the keyboard after a year (on one even earlier)01:39
ograone of them was the ferrari cheapo version (the guts of a ferrari in a cheap case, with cheap keyboard and display)01:40
ograits lying upstaris and has broken charging electronics ...01:41
ogra(so i cant boot it anymore ...)01:41
ograand it survived exactly until the warranty was over ...01:42
ograi'm pretty fine with the current HP i have ... its a pavillion ze2000 AMD turion6401:42
ogracosted 699 with 1Gig of ram and 80GiG HD01:43
jsgotangcobrb01:43
willvdlI like the HPs . Loved my old IBM thinkpad01:44
willvdlalthough it also wouldn't suspend01:44
willvdlthe acer doesn't have a decent shell but mine is pretty well specced01:44
willvdland cheap01:44
willvdlwoops, gotto run. bbl01:45
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PetarisHi all02:43
jsgotangcoHi Petaris02:45
PetarisI have a question concerning ltsp and xfce02:46
Petarisactually its a bug/issue that only effects the two together (to my knowlage)02:47
Petaristhe xfce shutdown, hibrinate, and sleep buttons seem to control the server not the client02:48
Petaristhis means students are continually shutting down the server02:48
Petaristhis is a bad(tm) thing02:49
Petarisis there a way I can dissable shutdown?02:49
Petarisand sleep, hibrinate02:49
jsgotangcohrmm ihaven't used xfce for ltsp02:50
Petarisif I have to login as root and issue a shutdown now -h (or -r) everytime as a result that doesn't bother me02:50
jsgotangcobut its bests you ask highvoltage02:50
Petarishrm02:50
PetarisI don02:50
PetarisI don't think he knew last time I asked him02:51
ograPetaris, thats somethig the xfce guys should solve (actually they are aware of that problem since dapper), it needs patching ...02:57
Petarisogra: xfce or xubuntu?02:58
ograeither02:58
PetarisI asked in xfce, they said just taking out the sudo rights should do it but it doesn't02:59
ogragnome-power-manager is fixed since edgy, they can look at the patch for it (its stored separately in the souce package so it should be easy to adapt)02:59
Petarisok02:59
Petaristhanks ogra02:59
Petaris:)02:59
ograthe xfce session manager needs to respect LTSP_CLIENT and act accordingly ...03:00
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ogra(or whatever provides the buttons to suspend etc)03:00
Petarisright, it would be cool if someday it could point back at the client and shut it down,03:00
Petarisogra: do you know if it is sceduled to be fixed before the next release?03:04
ograi have neiter any influence on the xubuntu guys nor do i know their schedule ... but i know there is a bug open since quite some time03:07
Petarisoh, ok03:08
Petaristhanks again03:08
jsgotangcociao goodnight i gotta sleep03:08
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HooblyI am having a real b*tch of a time getting edubuntu 6.10 to run on my machine.  Can someone make some suggestions03:48
Hoobly?03:48
HooblyEverything installs fine, but when I go to boot, immediately after the memory check and disk initialization I get a blinking cursor and nothing else.03:49
PetarisHoobly: You don't get grub loading?03:54
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HooblyPetaris: nope04:04
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bddebianHeya04:10
PetarisHoobly: I would check to make sure grub installed and configured correctly?04:12
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rockprincessYAHOOOOOO ;)04:40
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P3L|C4N0greetings04:58
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willvdlogra, ping05:09
ograwillvdl, pong05:10
willvdlogra, https://help.ubuntu.com/community/ThinClients refers to EdubuntuInstallNotes05:11
willvdlwhich is not on h.u.c or w.u.c05:11
willvdldo you perhaps know where it shoulw point or would in future point?05:11
ograi dont even know where that page comes from05:12
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ograthe thin client howto used to look like https://help.ubuntu.com/community/UbuntuLTSP/LTSPQuickInstall05:12
willvdlaha05:12
ograsomehow it mutated to a horrible page but it had valid info ... which led me to write the quick install guide05:13
ograand keep the thin client howto for community additions05:13
ograthe thin client howto isnt valid for edubuntu ... simply because the installer does all the described steps there05:13
ograso that page you asked about is right ... even somewhat silly to have it ...05:14
willvdlshould I then rather have the link in https://help.ubuntu.com/community/ThinClients point to https://help.ubuntu.com/community/UbuntuLTSP/LTSPQuickInstall rather05:14
ograbut also note that more complicated info is available through ThinClientHowto05:14
ogras/complicated/advanced/ ??05:15
willvdllol05:15
ograall the specs listed in the thin client howto are implemented since a long time ...05:16
willvdlthe /EdubuntuInstallNotes link is empty though05:16
willvdl /ThinClients refers to /EdubuntuInstallNotes for edubuntu users (has a note)05:16
ograPlease don't use this Howto if you installed Edubuntu from CD, since the Installer does nearly all of the work described here already, if you use Edubuntu, follow the Edubuntu Install Notes wikipage at [WWW]  https://wiki.edubuntu.org/EdubuntuInstallNotes.05:16
ograaha05:16
ograit has even a note05:16
willvdlwhich you put there :)05:17
ograwell, didnt you delete it ?05:17
ogra(the install notes page)05:17
willvdlyou told me to. it was old05:17
ograactually we dont need install notes anymore ... probably we should create EdubuntuInstallNotes with a note that there are no install notes :)05:18
willvdlhahaha05:18
ograwell, i didnt know how many pages link to it05:18
willvdlOK, best solution is to have that "note" point somewhere else05:18
willvdlI should have checked. my oversight05:18
willvdlI normally do05:19
ograprobably point it to gettingstarted05:19
willvdlgood idea.05:19
ograeven though we dont have that on the wiki05:19
ogra(its drupal only iirc)05:19
highvoltagewon't it be better making an installation giude from scratch for feisty?05:20
willvdlgettingstarted is link to help.u.c05:20
willvdlhighvoltage, probably, even if as ogra says, it is pretty empty05:20
ograhighvoltage, +++05:21
ograwillvdl, well, we can put new stuff on it ..05:21
willvdlon what?05:21
ograyou just dont need to do anything post install to get ltsp running ... but there are enough things you can add for users to get started :)05:21
willvdloh right, edubuntu install guide. not ltsp install guide05:22
willvdlwoudl go in handbook I guess...05:22
Petarisogra: who created that patch for gnome-power-manager?05:23
ograme05:23
Petarisoh05:23
Petarisok05:23
highvoltagea straight ltsp install guide for Ubuntu is probably more suited for help.u.c than edubuntu specific docs05:23
PetarisI looked at it in the /etc/dbus-1/system.d/gnome-power-manager.conf file, is that all there is to it?05:24
ograPetaris, 70-suppress-pm-actions-on-ltsp.patch in the g-p-m source package05:24
Petarisogra: ahh, ok05:25
Petarisand that looks at these rules?05:26
ograno05:26
Petarisoh05:26
ograit makes g-p-m not allow hibernate/suspend at all if g_getenv("LTSP_CLIENT") is true05:26
Petarisoh05:27
Petarisok05:27
willvdlhighvoltage, there is https://help.ubuntu.com/community/UbuntuLTSP05:27
ograthey just need to add the same to the code that shows their hibernate/suspend buttons05:27
willvdland https://help.ubuntu.com/community/ThinClients05:27
Petariswhat about for shutdown and restart05:27
willvdlthe latter has a broken link05:27
ograshutdown and restart are handled in gnome ... by gdm i think ... i didnt have to patch anything there, gnome detects that you are not logged in locally on the server05:28
willvdlhighvoltage, the GettingStarted page on www.edubuntu.org, is that in the drupal site only or does it grab from help.u.c?05:28
ograso these buttons arent shown05:28
highvoltagewillvdl: it's in the normal drupal site05:29
Petarisogra, ahh05:29
Petarisok05:29
willvdlhighvoltage, thanks. Will think about it on Monday :)05:32
highvoltagewillvdl: ok :)05:34
willvdlhighvoltage which would make more sense: install notes in the SVN or on the wiki?05:35
willvdlwiki right? so that the docteam could pull relevant info into svn docs?05:35
willvdlogra, remember in the meeting you said someone was looking for https://wiki.edubuntu.com/EdubuntuLtsConfParams?05:36
ograyep05:37
ograi dont know the nick anymore, but he was apparently running breezy and didt want to upgrade05:37
ogra*didnt05:37
willvdlcan't remember what link he was looking for but it should have forwarded05:37
willvdlI remember there being 2 "copies" of the same info05:38
willvdlanyhoo05:38
willvdlogra, fixed references to EdubuntuInstallNotes05:39
ograthanks :)05:39
willvdlOK outa here. Hopefully on Monday I will finally have time to sort through all the existing doc&wiki planning pages and consolidate ideas and plans05:47
willvdlhave an excellent weekend05:48
ograciao, enjoy05:48
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Laser_awayogra: marble is in NEW now06:15
ograyay06:15
ogracool06:15
ograi got pulseaudio sound working :)06:15
ograbut still no mixer control :(06:15
ograi thought pulse would magically solve it06:16
Laser_awayoh, and a somebody is looking at the new squeak packages06:17
ogranice06:18
Laser_awaywe might be able to totally replace our packages06:19
Laser_awaywhich would be kinda nice06:19
Laser_awaysince these are more "official" and I think they might work better06:20
ograyeah06:37
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HooblyCan someone please help me with a blinking cursor problem?09:27
LaserJockyikes, I'm not sure09:27
LaserJockthis is at startup?09:27
Hooblyyes it is at startup09:27
HooblyI have used the 6.10 live CD to setup several times.  No errors, everything completes fine.  Then when I go to boot to the new system, I get a blinking cursor and that's all09:28
HooblyI have installed 6.10 successfully on several machines, but this time, I'm very confused.09:28
LaserJockhmm09:29
LaserJockcan you get to a console? Alt-F109:29
LaserJockoh, I think that should be Ctrl-Alt-F109:29
Hooblylet me check09:29
HooblynOpe09:30
Hooblynothing except CTRL+ALT+DEL does anything.09:30
LaserJockdid you get anything when you booted09:30
LaserJocklike messages going by or the splash image09:30
HooblyNope09:31
Hooblyno messages or splash images09:31
LaserJockhave you tried #ubuntu yet?09:31
LaserJockthey have a lot more people and I just don't know what to try if it's not even getting to  where you can use a console09:32
Hooblyyes.  They suggested a few things which I have tried, but to no avail and now no one seems to want to help me.09:33
LaserJockhmm09:35
LaserJockso you just get a blinking cursor09:36
LaserJockno messages at all throught the boot process?09:36
LaserJock*throughout09:36
Hooblynope09:38
Hooblythe bios does a memory check and then starts to boot, but nothing happens09:38
LaserJockbut the livecd worked on the same machine?09:39
Hooblyhmmmmm....problem solved!09:39
HooblyI unplugged the CD rom and floppy drive and GRUB came up and booted.09:39
HooblyPeculiar!09:39
LaserJockah, so it was trying to boot off of something else I guess09:41
Hooblyperhaps09:41
HooblyThis motherboard must suck.  It does not move down the list if there is no CD in the drive09:43
LaserJockodd09:43
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LaserJockcbx33!09:47
cbx33LaserJock, !!!09:48
cbx33BETT is over09:48
cbx33well for me at least09:48
cbx33one more day of it tomorrow09:48
cbx33but apparently it's mainly kids who go to it09:48
LaserJockare you back home?09:48
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cbx33yup09:50
airjumphi09:50
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