can't login to ltsp thin client

[Mip Mipendorf]

Binary package hint: compiz

New install of ltsp using Lucid 10.04. I can logon to the server itself okay. When I try to login from a booted thin client, I got the login screen, and can enter a username and password. It *appears* to let me login (I see the beginnings of a purple desktop background), but them am kicked back into the login window.

The following command from someone in IRC helped me solve the issue:

sudo gconftool-2 --direct --config-source xml:readwrite:/etc/gconf/gconf.xml.mandatory --type string --set /desktop/gnome/session/required_components/windowmanager metacity

(all one line)

The output from lspci related to video is:

01:0c.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Rage XL (rev 27)

Let me know if you need more info.

Thanks a bunch in advance,

Marc

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

Thanks for your bug report. Is this still an issue with the latest release of Ubuntu the Natty Narwhal? May you please check and comment back? Thanks in advance!.

[Mip Mipendorf (mbruell)]

Thanks for the followup. Once I ran the commands I outlined above, it worked beautifully. We have been very happy with it. I haven't upgraded to Natty for our LTSP installations, and do not plan to do so. I'll stay with the LTS install until the next LTS version comes in April of 2012.

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