[K12OSN] OOo Impress crashes with LTSP v4.2

[John Lucas]

I have run across an annoying little "gotcha" using LTSP v4.2 (updated to 
latest via ltspadmin). Everything works as expected *except* when attempting 
to run any slide show in OOo Impress. Using Impress to create or convert a 
presentation works fine, you just can't view the slideshow from a diskless 
workstation. Once the screen clears and the first slide appears, the 
application closes. This only happens for diskless workstations running as 
X-terminals; running the same application via VNC or via X on a stand-alone 
(on the same server) workstation works fine.

In order to narrow the problem space, I installed LTSP v4.1 and tested the 
same application from a diskless X-terminal works fine. This indicates to me 
that it is something in the kernel or on the root directory of the diskless 
terminal.

The problem seems to be either in the LTSP kernel or Xorg server supplied with 
LTSP v4.2. 

My setup uses K12LTSP v5.0.0 (Fedora Core 5) with all updates installed and 
LTSP updated via ltspadmin. I have tried kernel versions 2.6.17.3 and 
2.6.17.8 with the same results.

Has anyone run across this problem?

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