[K12OSN] K12LTSP 5.0.0 beta #12

[Eric Harrison]

On Sun, 9 Jul 2006, Jesse McDonnell wrote:

> On Thu, 06 Jul 2006 15:20:36 -0700
> Eric Harrison <eharrison at mail.mesd.k12.or.us> wrote:
>
>> K12LTSP 5.0.0 beta #12 has been uploaded. This includes another huge set
>> of updates.
>
>> I believe all of the show-stopping bugs have been squashed. I considered
>> naming this "release-candidate #1", but not all off the changes have
>> been tested. I'll shoot for having a RC1 release on Saturday.
>>
>>
>> The repositories have been updated, if you have an earlier beta
>> installed you can simply run "yum update".
>
> Ran yum update and the k12ltsp-initialize script. Update (from beta 7 or 8) 
> was almost flawless, thanks for all the good work! The only problem I've
> seen is I can no longer access the shell with CTRL-ALT-F2.
>
> If I put screen01 = shell and screen02 = startx, the terminal won't stop at
> the shell but will fire up the login GUI. Only way I can get to the shell 
> is by commenting out screen02 = startx, and once I run startx I can no 
> longer get back to the shell. Seems to be a keyboard mapping or an X-server
> issue....???
>
> My terminal is an Optoma ST320/Jammin 125.
>
> Anyone else seeing this?

I can confirm this. I wiped out /opt/ltsp/i386, ran the LTSP installer,
and had the same problem - there are reasonable odds that it is not a 
K12LTSP-specific bug. Jim, do you see the same thing?

Will dig into it deeper tomorrow...

-Eric