Re: LI-F-E DVD feedback #2 - Build4.2

On Wed, Jul 1, 2009 at 8:58 PM, Doug Glenn<[email protected]> wrote:
> Greetings all!
>
> Let me stick my ignorant oar back in the water..... (hit delete if you
> desire...)
>
> First, it was a great install.  Good job.
> A few issues tho, being nitpicky :)  I wish I could honestly help
> building it out rather than just reporting on subjective issues...
>
> Cron:  Moodle is not enable or configured on the end install.  Result.
> Lots of emails generate by Cron to Root.

Please file a bug on devzilla link provided by James.

>
> Italc:  I know, not your issue really, but I admit being unable to
> find an answer at the moment.....  I generated the new keypair, but I
> cannot access any clients. The following is the only excerpt from the
> italc_client.log (master is empty)
> -- Tue Jun 30 15:51:12 2009: [warning] QDir::mkpath: Empty or null file name(s)
>
> Any clues would be helpful.  I have read the wiki.  Do I need to
> rebuild the client images in order for it to work correctly? That I
> did not do.
>
No image rebuild is required, check /etc/sysconfig/ica to see if italc
is enabled.

> Pulseaudio - does not kill itself. Leaves a lot of 'zombies' around.
> If the user reboots the terminal, then the previous session is still
> alive.  They tend to accumulate.  Temp workaround was to add a cron
> job to the cron.daily that runs at midnight (script checks to ensure
> it is the right hour and not 3pm) and do a killall pulseaudio.
>
> Zombie user sessions:  Again, sometimes as a result of the end user
> rebooting.  (I was configuring the system while it was in use, and had
> to ask a few to restart from time to time). It would leave both
> Pulseaudio and gconf running.
>
I think LTSP upstream are aware of this issue as it affects all
distributions, fix will be in soon.


> Sabayon:  probably an issue with the mainstream install. Does a error
> dump after any action.
>
Sabayon has been broken for a very long time, follow upstream gnome
bug tracker for that.

> Yast: GUI errors crop up sometimes.  I need to snapshot them and file
> them with the main distro bugzilla.
>
Yes, please do.

> Since Sabayon is not running, and the EDU switched to a Gnome build, I
> don't have a means of editing out the menus to restrict them per
> 'class'.  I would like to only display the appropriate type of
> programs for the age groups that are using it.  I have it broken down
> in to elementary and highschool.  I would also like to remove the
> 'non-working' icons that they should not need from the side menu.  In
> other words, simplify it.  They don't need YAST on their menu. :)
>
gconf is your friend.
http://opseast.wordpress.com/2007/06/12/sledgnome-desktop-lockdown/

Thanks again for the detailed feedback.

Cheers

-J