Thanks for the suggestion. Unfortunately, that didnt' help. I have 2
almost identical machines. One I installed ubuntu 15.10 on from a cd.
The other is my fai test machine. They are both Dell Optiplex 760s.
I piped the output from "dpkg --get-selections' to a file on both
machines and then I did a diff. Then I took the output from diff,
grepped for lines starting with a less than, and redirected it to a
file. Then I turned that file into an FAI packages config file. First I
did a fai softupdate. When that didn't work, I did a complete reinstall.
So now doing the dpkg and diff again shows no packages on the
ubuntu-from-cd machine that aren't also on the fai machine.
Of course, there are a lot of packages on the fai machine that are not
on the ubuntu machine.
On 12/22/2015 10:24 AM, Robert Markula wrote:
Hi John,
that's probably due to a missing package. You could do a standard Ubuntu
install (from CD or USB drive that is) on the machine in question, print
the installed packages and then, on the same machine, run a FAI-based
install, print the installed packages again and compare/diff both
package lists.
Cheers,
Robert
Am 22.12.2015 um 17:14 schrieb John G Heim:
I'm installing ubuntu 15.10 via FAI. Actually, all I did was take a
working ubuntu 15.04 config and change the sources.list file so it
installs ubuntu 15.10 on selected machines. The beauty of FAI is how
easy it is to do something like that. The main problem I'm having is
that there is no network or sound icon on the lightdm login screen.
And the problem with that is that without sound, the accessible logins
don't work. I'm blind myself butsince this is a university, we're
legally required to have an accessible login anyway.
Anybody have a clue as to why sound wouldn't work in lightdm? I am
sorry to ask a question that is a little bit OT but I am just really
stumped.
My sighted colleague tells me that there is a menu bar at the top of
the screen just like in a working ubuntu machine but the sound and the
network icons are missing. Logins work though. You get sound after you
log in and the screen reader works fine. I examined the lightdm logs
and see nothing meaningful.
