[K12OSN] OOo Impress crashes with LTSP v4.2

[James P. Kinney III]

On Tue, 2006-09-05 at 15:19 -0400, John Lucas wrote:
> 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?

Not with OOo Impress but with ANY app that wants to run full-screen. All
of the little apps (gcompris and some others) are now tweaked on the new
setup to not run full-screen. It will lock out the local console and can
only be recovered by rebooting the thin client.

For gcompris, we made a script to start gcompris in a window. In
Impress, click on SlideShow->Slide Show Settings then select "Window"
instead of default. That will make it work for the current presentation.
I don't know how to make it "stick" for new ones unless the blank
template is edited. But that won't stop someone from using the "default"
setting manually.
> 
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James P. Kinney III          
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