> 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. -- "When you say "I wrote a program that crashed Windows", people just stare at you blankly and say "Hey, I got those with the system, for free". - Linus Torvalds, 1995 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
