clients do not shutdown

[Matt Johnson]

----- Original Message -----

> From: Alkis Georgopoulos <alkisg at gmail.com>
> To: Matt Johnson <johnsonmlw at yahoo.com>
> Cc: "edubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com" <edubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com>
> Sent: Friday, 9 November 2012, 9:04
> Subject: Re: clients do not shutdown
> 
> Στις 09/11/2012 10:54 πμ, ο/η Matt Johnson έγραψε:
>>  I know there is new model for ltsp (where you don't need to rebuild 
> images).
>>  Could I use that to resolve this and is it from a PPA? I seem to remember
>>  you asking people to stop testing that PPA. Is that the case?
> 
> 
> The PPA is "stable", 300+ Greek schools are using it. What you're 
> referring to might be some earlier alpha ltsp-pnp implementation for which I 
> sent a message that it won't be supported anymore since it has gone 
> upstream, and people should use the upstream ltsp-pnp method instead.
> 
> That PPA does contain a newer LTSP version than the one in 12.04, and it's 
> more or less the version shipped with Debian Wheezy. Sure, you can try it if you 
> want, but better do that on a clean 12.04 installation, since the LTSP upgrade 
> from 12.04 to more recent versions isn't working well (different formats for 
> nbd-server configuration files, for ltsp configuration files etc).
> 
> 
> So if you want to test that, I'd suggest using a clean installation + having 
> a backup plan, because it's quite possible that the problem isn't solved 
> in that version either.
> 
> https://help.ubuntu.com/community/UbuntuLTSP/ltsp-pnp

Thank you. I'll also reply to your earlier email regarding a workaround available on bazaar. Perhaps someone could outline how I could call that file correctly.

I'll look into the advantages of ptsp-pnp too but I can see that the problem may persist.

Much obliged, Alkis.

--
Matt