Hi,
I am experiencing a very strange thing for which there are no ready answers
by googling. I am a volunteer for a non-profit which puts GNU-Linux
computers in low income shelters. They are stand-alone machines connected
directly to the Internet via a hub on a dedicated ethernet cable.
The shelters don't want the users to be able to store anything directly to
the machine's hard drive. To give them that functionality, we ask them to
use the guest session, which wipes out all data by …
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ends.
Right now, however, we are experiencing a failure of logging into the guest
session. Normally, you just choose the guest session in the Lubuntu login
screen, and hit enter, and it boots up a full guest session. No password
is required.
Now, when I chose the guest session and hit enter, the system appears to
head toward a normal login, but then quickly fails and returns to the login
screen.
The system's SU admin account is performing normally. To get into the
admin account, I just choose it in the login screen, enter the password,
and the admin session boots up normally.
This whole thing is very strange, and I have never seen anything like it
before. We are using 14.04 on 13 machines with identical or similar
hardware and are not having any such problems. This email is being written
on one of those such machines, and the guest session works just fine.
I ran updates on the malfunctioning machines, rebooted, no joy.
Thanks very much in advance.
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Christian Einfeldt
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BALUG friends & acquaintances, it's with mixed emotion that I say
farewell!
My family and I are moving up to Washington state this summer, after
~20 years out here in Davis. We'll be close to our kids' grandparents,
finally own our own house, and won't have 105F days during summer! :)
I'll be unsubscribing from various local mailing lists soon. I'm sure
I'll see at least some of you around online, though. (And nostalgia
won't let me unsubscribe from LUGOD's mailing lists. ;) )
--
-…
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Sent from my computer
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Fair bit going on - including evenings and Saturday
----- Forwarded message from grantbow(a)partimus.org -----
Date: Tue, 09 May 2017 12:21:37 +0000
From: "Grant Bowman" <grantbow(a)partimus.org>
Subject: [Tech] Digital Inclusion Week on now
To: discussion(a)lists.partimus.org, tech(a)lists.partimus.org
Fyi http://sfpl.org/digitalinclusionweek
If anyone will be attending please let us know. Maybe we fan meet up.
Regards,
Grant
----- End forwarded message -----
The Linux Users' Group of Davis (LUGOD) will be holding the following meeting:
Monday
May 15, 2017
7:00pm - 9:00pm
Presentation:
"DockerCon17 Recap and Highlights"
Presented by:
Stephen Matthew Helms
Description:
Docker is an open-source project that automates the deployment of
applications inside software containers -- a server virtualization
method in which the kernel of an operating system allows the existence
of multiple isolated user-space instances, instead of …
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DockerCon, held recently in Austin, Texas, is a "community and container
industry conference for makers and operators of next generation
distributed apps built with containers ... with talks by practitioners,
hands-on labs, an expo hall of Docker ecosystem innovators."
This presentation will highlight some of the Linux- and
open-source-related topics found at DockerCon 2017.
Stephen will also briefly discuss the Docker Community, Mentoring
and Higher Ed and Embassador program, and if time permits, audience
participation in some demos.
This meeting will be held at:
Yolo County Public Library, Mary L. Stephens Davis Branch
Blanchard Community Meeting Room
315 E 14th Street
Davis, CA 95616
For more details on this meeting, visit:
http://www.lugod.org/meeting/upcoming/
For maps, directions, public transportation schedules, etc., visit:
http://www.lugod.org/meeting/library/
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About LUGOD:
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The Linux Users' Group of Davis is a 501(c)7 non-profit organization
dedicated to the Linux computer operating system and other Open Source
and Free Software.
Since 1999, LUGOD has held regular meetings with guest speakers
in Davis, California, as well as other events in Davis and the greater
Sacramento region. Events are always free and open to the public.
You can 'like' LUGOD on Facebook at:
https://www.facebook.com/LinuxUsersGroupOfDavis
join the LUGOD group on Facebook at: https://www.facebook.com/groups/lugod/
and find us on LinkedIn at: http://www.linkedin.com/groups?gid=35879
Please visit our website for more details: http://www.lugod.org/
--
Bill Kendrick
pr(a)lugod.org
Public Relations Officer
Linux Users' Group of Davis
http://www.lugod.org/
(Your address: balug-talk-balug.org(a)lists.balug.org )
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