[K12OSN] Lingering Release Issues

[Eric Harrison]

try turning on swap, with LTSP 4.2 that is:

     LTSP_USE_NBD_SWAP=Y

-Eric

On Sat, 12 Aug 2006, R. Scott Belford wrote:

> Aloha Folks
>
> Not unlike Wilson, my stalwart has come up lame on this latest upgrade.  I 
> just can't figure it, so to speak.  After upgrading a lab working with no 
> modifications from {whatever-the-release-was} 2.5 years ago, more than half my 
> clients are not behaving well.  The upgrade of choice was release 5.  I have 
> installed it twice and performed all the upgrades.  The issues are the same 
> before and after the upgrades.
>
> Issue One
>
> xf86MapVidMem: Coud no mmap framefubber (0xf5000000, 0x8000000) (Cannot
> allocate memory)
>
> Issue Two
>
> Some clients come up with the the bubbles and the new desktop.  Some do not. 
> Instead, they have desktops with no icons, and no icons can be added to the 
> desktop.  A few, not all, of the clients have the courtesy to inform me that 
> "The application Nautilus quit unexpectedly"
>
> These same clients will not load Firefox.  They will load Konqueror. They 
> launch every other program in the applications menu.
>
> The clients with the bubbly desktop do everything quite nicely, though their 
> screensaver is actually a window smaller than the desktop.  I am not making 
> any of this up.
>
> All but two of these are the black ibm units as seen here
>
> http://www.hosef.org/gallery2/v/installations/bgch-ewa/lineup2.jpg.html
>
> I do not know if their NICs or Video Cards or RAM configs differ.  I just know 
> the magic isn't there on this install, and this little doggy is gettin' away 
> on me.
>
> BTW, another install of K12LTSP5 at a city park is perfect.
>
> Aloha
>
> --scott
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> R. Scott Belford
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> The Hawai`i Open Source Education Foundation
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