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rhce7321I have got my ist thin client up to a boot prompt,   But I get the message :12:37
rhce7321"This workstation isn't authorized to connect to server"12:37
rhce7321I'm updatein ssh-keys & image in attempt to fix.12:38
rhce7321Woo-hoo!!12:41
rhce7321got my 1st client desktop.12:41
ogracongrats :)12:43
LaserJockmorning all16:21
sbalneavMorning LaserJock16:50
LaserJockwhy, it's my favorite Canadian!16:51
sbalneavSo, when do you want to do a triage day?  Maybe Next week sometime? I can take a work-at-home day.16:52
LaserJocksbalneav: whenever you're available dude16:54
LaserJockthe sooner the better16:54
sbalneavWhy don't we tentatively say next wed.16:54
LaserJockok, that sounds lovely16:54
LaserJocktoday I think I should have the meta packages worked out16:55
LaserJockso we're making some progress towards Intrepid16:55
LaserJockCaroline has been doing some wicked triaging :-)16:55
LaserJockright now we have ~ 220 open bugs16:56
LaserJockI think we need to get through them all before Intrepid is out16:56
LaserJockI've seen a number of really old or misfiled ones16:57
GoosemooseMy auto install using preseed.cfg is stopping and asking for kerberos servers18:41
GoosemooseI don't see what command should be answering that questions, any ideas?18:41
sbalneavHmm, not sure, I've never done a preseed.18:42
sbalneavThis on Hardy>18:42
sbalneav?18:42
Goosemooseyes18:42
GoosemooseI didn't have this issue with feisty18:43
sbalneavHmm.  Not sure.18:49
sbalneavogra's not around at the moment, he'd be the one to ask, likely18:49
Goosemooseok18:58
Goosemoosei cant find anything on it online either18:58
Goosemoosehmm, my preseed has : tasksel tasksel/first multiselect edubuntu-desktop but when them machine booted just came to the terminal22:15
Goosemoosewhy didnt it start with the desktop?22:15
EghieGoosemoose: I think you should also select a desktop with taskel22:18
Eghieltsp-build-client also works without a desktop22:19
Goosemoosehmm22:19
Goosemooseso edubuntu-desktop, standard ?22:20
Eghieyou could do that yes22:21
Eghiebut you can also choose xubuntu-desktop or just ubuntu-desktop22:21
Eghieltsp is building a client which can be loaded via PXE (network) and it connects to X of the server22:22
Eghiethen you can choose which desktop you want to run22:22
Goosemooseim not running ltsp22:22
Goosemoosethey are getting an actual install on the hard drive22:22
Eghieah, sorry, I've read it wrong i guess22:23
Goosemooseno problem , answer minght be the same22:23
Eghieedubuntu-desktop should indeed install a full desktop22:23
Eghieand also boot up in X22:23
Goosemooseok22:24
Eghieit could be a advantage above ubuntu-desktop, because they both use gnome22:24
Eghieif that's so, you also should install ubuntu-desktop22:24
Goosemooseok22:28
Goosemoosehow do i set which loads then?22:28
Eghiethey both run on Gnome, so that shouldn't matter22:29
Goosemooseok22:29
Goosemoosedo you have any idea why this would give me an error:22:29
Goosemoosed-i preseed/late_command string wget http://10.0.2.131/post_install_tasks && chmod +x ./post_install_tasks && ./post_install_tasks22:29
Eghiebut you can set the edubuntu theme if you want on ubuntu-desktop, if it's not already showing up22:29
Goosemoosethe file is publicly accessible22:30
Eghiewhat error?22:30
Goosemoosebut im getting a error 12722:30
Eghieah22:30
Goosemoosefailed with exit code 12722:30
Goosemoosethe file just joins the domain22:30
Eghieis it wget which returns 127 or the post_install_tasks?22:31
Goosemoosei cant tell22:31
Eghieyou could try to leave the executing of post_install_taks of22:31
Eghieoff22:32
Eghieand then see if it still gives the error22:32
Goosemooseok, just to see if wget works22:32
Goosemooseok, just asec22:32
Eghieok22:32
EghieGoosemoose: what about the command: eval `wget -q http://10.0.2.131/post_install_tasks -O-`22:36
Goosemoosewhat does that change?22:37
Eghiethe same as you try to achieve22:37
Eghiebut in 1 command22:37
Goosemooselol, gotcha22:37
Goosemooseahh isee22:37
Goosemooseso that gets rid of the chmod statement?22:37
Eghiealthough eval must exists when you run it22:37
Eghieyes22:37
Goosemoosei've never seen -0-22:37
Eghieit says, -O- = output to STDOUT22:38
Eghieso output as normal text22:38
Eghieand eval will execute that text22:38
Goosemoosegotcha22:39
Goosemooseill see how the normal wget works in a minute, its almost there22:39
Eghieok22:39
Eghieah man, I don't like using gnome-watchdog :S22:39
GoosemooseI have it down to just asking one questions during preseed which is about overwriting an exist partition22:40
Eghieok22:40
Goosemoosebut it set it to say yes in the preseed.cfg22:40
Goosemooseso im not sure why22:40
Goosemoosei had to figure out a bunch of kerberos stuff earlier that i dont remember doing in feisty22:40
Eghieit depends if you want to use kerberos or not22:41
Goosemooseahh it must be asking because i installed likewise-open as a package22:41
Eghieif you are using an active directory domain, well kerberos would by handy22:41
Eghieah22:41
Goosemooseyeah22:41
Goosemoosethats why it added it in there22:41
Goosemooseit took awhile as i haven't figured out how to discern the correct commands for each screen yet22:41
Eghiekerberos is a bit difficult, but really nice22:41
Goosemooselikewise is nice22:42
Goosemoosei had AD working with kerberos before with a manual job22:42
Goosemoosetook like 45 minutes to do22:42
Goosemooselikewise joins in seconds22:42
Goosemooseinstall and go22:42
Eghiehehe, that's correct22:42
Eghiethey are doing a great job22:42
Goosemoosei love it22:42
Goosemooseif i can just get it working during preseed ill be set22:42
Goosemoosei did see it was installed last go22:42
EghieI hope it will work at the same speed on a Samba 4 server22:42
Goosemoosejust need the script to execute to join automatically22:42
Goosemooseim sure it will22:43
LnsDid I miss the meeting?23:06
LnsI see nothing on the fridge regarding it, though the link in topic is valid..23:08
HedgeMageLns:  if there is a meeting, it will likely be in #ubuntu-meeting23:11
LnsHedgeMage: thanks.23:12
HedgeMagenp :)23:12
LnsI sure did miss a hot thread on edubuntu-users the past couple days!23:12
LaserJockLns: *next* Wednesday23:16
LnsLaserJock: oh23:16
Lnsdamn.. i was hoping to have every single bug fixed by today. :p23:16
LaserJockheh23:25
LaserJockgood luck with that23:25
LnsI have an idea23:26
Lnsalthough a bad thing to ask here... it seems as though there are so many issues going on here, and so many people voicing their issues on the mailing list, it seems impossible to track them all and see HOW many people are having specific issues.23:27
LnsI think LTSP needs its own tracker for LP bugs...23:27
Lnsmaybe just a static page that lists LTSP, Edubuntu specific things (related and non-related directly to LTSP packages, such as issues with Gnome and it's LTSP integration)23:28
LaserJockLns: well, we do have a bug tracker, it's called Launchpad :-)23:34
LnsLaserJock: i know :)23:34
LaserJockif a bug is LTSP specific it should be filed against ltsp23:34
Lnsright23:34
LaserJockif it's not LTSP specific we need to find the right package to file against23:34
Lnsbut most bugs people encounter aren't ltsp specific23:34
LaserJockright!23:35
Lnsthough they are happening because of the thin-client env23:35
Lnsit's at that point, imho, people stop trying to help23:35
LaserJockso that's why we need to get some people to help triage these things so they can find proper homes23:35
Lnsbecause they came to where they thought they should23:35
Lnsmmk23:35
Lnsi'm not very familiar with triaging23:35
Lnsmaybe that's what i'm missing23:35
LaserJockwell, I think that's a very general problem around Edubuntu23:36
LaserJockwe don't generate a ton of bugs so we're not very familiar with bug processes23:36
Lnstrue23:36
LaserJockbut I think if we were generating more bug reports and doing more triaging, things would start to flow better23:36
Lnsi agree23:36
LaserJockinstead of sending complaints to mailing list threads that will be forgotten next week :-)23:37
Lnsmmk..i'll do some reading on triaging bugs...maybe the best place is to look in LP for ltsp specific bugs and start churning through everything23:37
LnsLaserJock: exactly23:37
Lnswhich, unfortunately, usually contains the data necessary to troubleshoot effectively23:37
Lns(along with all the harsh commentary)23:37
LaserJockI've been thinking a little about how to help people do better with bugs in Edubuntu23:38
LaserJockUbuntu runs (and just did one) the Ubuntu Developer Week every so often23:39
LaserJockI wonder if we could do something sort of smaller scale for Edubuntu23:39
LaserJockthe main problem I've seen is that most edu people don't like IRC23:39
LaserJockwhich makes running tutorials or help sessions very difficult23:39
Lnsthat's what i see is a larger issue as well - too many facilities23:40
Lnspeople aren't dumb, but fragmented information gets nowhere fast23:40
LaserJockwell, it isn't so much fragmented, IMO23:41
LaserJockbut Edubuntu people don't seem to "plug in" to Ubuntu resources very well, from what I've seen23:41
Lnsi agree, and i'm one of them23:42
LaserJockwhich I suppose comes from it being sort of a niche area23:42
LaserJockif I could just get everybody on IRC for *1* hour we'd be on a roll23:42
johnnyhow about web based..23:42
johnnyso they don't have to setup a client23:42
johnnyjust go to a web page23:42
Lnsjohnny: that's exactly what i was thinking23:43
LaserJockwell, that requires a lot23:43
johnnya lot of what?23:43
LaserJocktime, resources23:43
johnnyhuh?23:43
Lnsi'll help23:43
johnnyto set it up23:43
johnnynot really23:43
LaserJocknot set up23:43
Lnsweb-based irc client?23:43
LaserJockoh wait23:43
Lns2 birds/1 stone.. heh23:43
LaserJockjohnny: did you mean a web-based IRC client?23:44
johnnyyes23:44
LaserJockI was thinking you meant replacing IRC with web-based learning23:44
Lnswe don't need another facility :p23:44
LaserJockwell, there are web-based clients around aren't there?23:44
LaserJockis it port blocking that's the issue?23:45
Lnsit would be so cool to have a central - *buntu thin-client environment - facility that links to everything23:45
Lnsincluding web-based EVERYTHING..irc, list archive, etc23:45
LaserJockPidgin is installed by default and is fairly easy to set up for IRC (even though it's not the best client)23:45
LaserJockI've been thinking of writing a "Contributing to Edubuntu" guide to stick on edubuntu.org23:47
LaserJockjust to get people on to the right resources around Ubuntu and familiar with how things work23:47
LaserJocka bit of a problem is I'm not entirely sure what people need, I've been doing this too long :-)23:48
Lnsyou know what i think might be better...and i'll do it if people think it's a good idea23:48
Lnsif we're talking about trying to centralize information and communications23:48
Lnsis create a completely new domain that covers Edubuntu, Ubuntu, Xubuntu, others such as RH/Fedora/Mandrake/whatever, in thin-client environments23:49
LaserJocksomething like ltsp.org ? :-)23:50
Lnslol23:50
johnnyjust trying to remove more barriers23:50
johnnywell.. i think ltsp.org needs a web admin23:50
Lnsjohnny: i couldn't agree more23:50
johnnyit doesn't really have anybody that takes care of it23:50
Lnsthat site is ancient23:50
Lnsit *is* the perfect domain name though23:50
johnnyanyways.. i have to run and i'll be back in a few23:50
Lnsthx johnny23:50
Lnsthere isn't much software that is so boundary-less like ltsp is23:52
Lnscross-distro, cross-package, cross-community23:52
LaserJockright23:52
LaserJockwell, there clearly is a need for LTSP to document itself23:52
LaserJockand sbalneav has done a lot of that in the past23:52
Lnsbut where to put the awesome documentation?23:53
Lnsso people can find it easily23:53
LaserJockwell, we *did* put it right on their computers23:53
Lnswhich seems sensible23:53
LaserJockbut we didn't have enough "hands" to get it updated for Hardy so it was not shipped23:53
Lnsbut doesn't cover irc, list communications, current issues23:53
LaserJockno23:54
Lnsbrb23:54

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