[Live-demo] [OSGeo] #1104: live session user does not belong to users group on low end hardware

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#1104: live session user does not belong to users group on low end hardware
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 Reporter:  kalxas    |       Owner:  live-demo@…              
     Type:  defect    |      Status:  new                      
 Priority:  critical  |   Milestone:  OSGeoLive6.5             
Component:  LiveDVD   |    Keywords:                           
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 This occurs on my old netbook when I start GeoServer after boot. It seems
 that user is not added in users and www-data groups affecting many
 applications.

 Reproduced by Hamish too:

 "Starting geoserver on my old & slow Atom netbook I saw the
 same trouble with the user not belonging to the 'users' or
 'www-data' groups. It's a race condition at boot time, the
 auto-login launches before rc.local has finished, and rc.local
 is what adds the user to those groups. It's weird though as
 all the other groups (audio, ..) are present. The only thing
 to be done is to log out and log back in, or start from a
 Terminal prompt and start a new login with 'su - user' then
 launch from there. Launching the startups as root doesn't help
 since then root owns ~/.mozilla etc. and you get locked out.
 If anything is done about it, the welcome message needs updating.
 Changing the auto-login sequence is a bit of a pain, IIRC, but
 worth looking into. I guess someone decided speed to the desktop
 was more important than having a working system at bootup... now
 what other OS does that remind me of..?"

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Ticket URL: <http://trac.osgeo.org/osgeo/ticket/1104>
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