My Negative Gutsy Experience

[David Trask]

Denis....can you elaborate on your hardware?  Many of us install Feisty
and Gutsy in large schools with virtually no issues at all.  I'm running
Feisty on both thin-clients and workstations with no issues.  In fact, as
I type this, I have 22 students in my lab working on a typing lesson in
KTouch on thin-clients.  Sound is never an issue for us...works fine.  My
clients boot in about 60 seconds....

In any case...what are you using for a server?  How many connected
clients?  What are you using for thin-clients?  Are you using a gigabit
switch?  Give us a little more info as to what you're using for hardware
and hopefully we can help you get it sorted out.

"Denis Melnikov" <dmelnik at regent.ru> writes:
>Hi,
>
>I'm a volunteer to install LTSP at my children's school.
>I'm not a newbie and supposed my skill sufficient to
>deploy Linux in a small school net.
>
>First, I'd installed Feisty, it happened this spring.
>Two things were striking upon installation, very slow
>thin client booting (3-5 min.), and transparent mounting
>of local devices (CDs, floppies, USB keys) - great!
>Unfortunately the server wasn't put into operation.
>
>I've been back to the server at the moment of Gutsy release.
>So I decided to upgrade Feisty to Gutsy, first, to speed
>up client booting, and second, to test upgrade
>possibility. Upgrade was successful and booting now
>takes 1 min - great! But this is the end of our success
>story.
>
>1) Local devices stopped mounting.
>Rarely a floppy icon appears at some user's desktop.
>Rarely an USBkey or CD mounts. But this happens without
>any relationship with username or computer. The fact is
>that only one user have an access to local devices at
>a time. Of course, all users are allowed to mount local
>devices.
>
>2) We need Russian (localization, fonts, layout).
>After installing appropriate packages user need to
>change desired language before EACH logon.
>How to make the language default? For one user and
>for all users?
>Can I leave desktop English, and change locale only?
>When I change language Gnome asks me to rename folders
>in my home - Media, Music, etc. - into Russian.
>If I forget to select language I'm asked to rename
>them back. 'Don't ask me again' checkbox has no role.
>How to make keyboard layout switch default for all?
>
>3) How to make proxy settings in Firefox default for all?
>
>4) Sound works from time to time. In Flash clips it
>doesn't work at all. In control panel sound works.
>And sound icon in righthand upper corner always
>looks as 'mute'.
>
>5) One user's desktop background have disappeared after
>ordinary logon. In this user's session gnome-panel started
>to fail loading modules. When he tried to add Switch-user
>module to the panel, he got the same failure message.
>By the way, how to setup default (again 'default')
>collection of panel modules, i.e. switch-user,
>keyboard-layout, etc.?
>
>6) Server downloads and installs updates and display
>an icon asking to reboot after that. But reboot menu
>at client reboots the client only. To reboot the server
>I have to 'shutdown -r now' at command prompt. Clients
>should get a message that allow them to finish their
>work. But alas, they are forcibly logged off.
>
>7) When one right-click inside entry field at login
>screen, the screen blanks and login reappears in several
>seconds (X restarts?).
>
>After all the troubles I couldn't prove Linux to be the
>good choice if needed. Whether IT teacher wasn't
>interested in it.
>Unfortunately, I have to establish Edubuntu Gutsy
>is far far away from system ready for non-IT admins.
>
>Denis
>
>P.S. Now I'll try to install clean Gutsy. If troubles
>stay I'll downgrade to Feisty.



David N. Trask
Technology Teacher/Director
Vassalboro Community School
dtrask at vcsvikings.org
(207)923-3100