Re: [gentoo-user] LTSP and firefox woes

[Ryan Viljoen]

> We have a number of old machines hanging diskless on a fairly nice LTSP box.
> So, this is a good server with a bunch of 6-7 machines using X remotely.
> No problem at all, everything working fine...
> ... that is, until one of them hangs.
> Certain old machines tend to hang a lot, and when they hang, their processes
> running
> on the server don't die, or at least don't die immediately.
> When they are rebooted and log on again, certain applications won't run,
> either
> complaining about lock files (OO.org), about another running instance of
> itself
> (firefox), or mibehaving because of existing files in /tmp (gnome with orbit
> files).
> There are other applications behaving like this.
> Anyone here using LTSP ever done any workaround to this? I thought about
> making
> a wrapper script to gdm so that when someone logs on, before starting
> anything at
> all (window manager et all), it would kill every running process on the
> server except
> itself, and only then pass control to the window manager.
> This is an ugly hack, I know, but I don't see a straightforward solution
> (apart from
> buying loads of new expensive machines). It seems to be a problem between X
> client
> and X server. In my opinion, the client windows should die if the
> corresponding X server
> is not there anymore, but that's not what happens.
>

Hey have you tried the LTSP mailing list. I had one or two problems
and they were able to give me a hand. Assuming you no one here is able
to help you.


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free". - Linus Torvalds, 1995

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