Re: [sabayon] Problem with Edgy Eft, LTSP and Sabayon

["William Lachance" <wrlach gmail com>]

On 11/9/06, André Geske <andre geske web de> wrote:
> Hi there!
> I thought I might find someone in this mailinglist, who can give me some
> hints on how to use Sabayon without scrambling my LTSP config.
> I'm running an Edubuntu LTSP server with 15 clients and up to 500 users
> who log in every week. Therefore I'd really LOVE to use a tool like
> sabayon.
> But my first efforts under Dapper failed, so I uninstalled it and hoped
> for newer versions. In Edgy, I installeed it, created a default user
> profile and began changing some desktop settings / removing some
> application links when suddenly all of my ltsp users couldn't log in
> anymore.
> Canceling Sabayon didn't help, aptitude remove sabayon didn't help, so I
> did aptitude purge sabayon and then the logins worked again.
> As I don't know any alternative to sabayon (except manually creating a
> dummy user and copying all settings files to skel) I'm really willing to
> cope with some bugs here and there, but when my complete environment seems
> to stall after installation of sabayon, I get scared!

Sabayon definitely isn't mature software, but I have seen it work on
occasion. :)

> So does anyone have any ideas on what went wrong and how to prevent it
> next time?

Do you see anything interesting in $HOME/xsession-errors when one of
your users tries to log in? Can you at least save a profile in sabayon
and then reload it from the administration UI?

> Also it's really hard to find any valuable information, howtos or
> tutorials for sabayon, at least for the new version included in Edgy.

Aside from what's linked on the Sabayon website, I don't think there's
much out there. Maybe you could write something up?
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William Lachance
wrlach gmail com