[Live-demo] OSGeoLive 6.5 Pre-release checkin

[Angelos Tzotsos]

On 02/19/2013 09:26 PM, Hamish wrote:
> 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..?

http://trac.osgeo.org/osgeo/ticket/1104

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Angelos Tzotsos
Remote Sensing Laboratory
National Technical University of Athens
http://users.ntua.gr/tzotsos