debian running kiosk-mode problems
debian 3.0r2
kernel 2.2.20
Box placed in a public library for public to browse librarys media database
Demands are no log-in, just power on and starting X and browser
Browser used is Galeon.
I have put up several boxes like this using redhat8, and it worked very
well. I will now test debian running this, as I was told it might run
faster than rh.
The problem is that X starts, but will not display galeon.
Shortly told the system is put up like this:
added user kiosk, system configuration by /etc/inittab,
/home/kiosk/kiosk.sh /home/kiosk/kiosk-session
/home/kiosk/.xsession and in additional I have tried to solve the
problem by adding /home/kiosk/.xserverrc for being sure that the correct
X server is used.
/etc/inittab provides automatically logging by the line
"k:4:respawn:/home/kiosk/kiosk.sh"
/home/kiosk.sh calling "exec xinit /home/kiosk/kiosk-session --$xargs
>/tmp/.xsession-errors2>&1"
/home/kiosk/kiosk-session making no prompt for password: "exec su -
--command /home/kiosk/.xsession kiosk"
I paste in the file /home/kiosk/.xsession, as I am very unsure if this
one is corrrect
/home/kiosk/.xsession:
"#!/bin/sh
# This is the $HOME/.xsession file for the kiosk "kiosk" user.
# put up our "loading, please wait" background image
#/usr/bin/X11/xsetbg /home/kiosk/wallpaper.gif
# turn off caps-lock, and make sure both BS and DEL exist (dunno why this
# seems not to be the default...)
#
/usr/X11R6/bin/xmodmap -e 'clear Lock' \
# -e 'keycode 0x42 = Control_L' \
# -e 'add Control = Control_L' \
# -e 'keycode 0x16 = BackSpace' \
# -e 'keycode 0x6B = Delete'
export PATH=$PATH:/bin:/usr/bin
#xscreensaver -no-splash&
while true ; do
/usr/bin/galeon -df
# /usr/bin/mozilla
done
# this should never be reached
Now, what happens is that I get grey screen with the mouse-pointer
active, but no galeon displayed.
If I log on remote by ssh and run top, I can see that /usr/bin/galeon
is active and running.
Top output:
25 processes: 23 sleeping, 2 running, 0 zombie, 0 stopped
CPU states: 80.7% user, 11.3% system, 0.0% nice, 8.0% idle
Mem: 95504K total, 28448K used, 67056K free, 1952K buffers
Swap: 211672K total, 0K used, 211672K free, 16744K cached
0m
ESC[7m PID USER PRI NI SIZE RSS SHARE STAT %CPU %MEM TIME
COMMAND [0m
1304 kiosk 10 0 720 720 456 R 5.7 0.7 0:00 galeon-bin
1298 root 2 0 928 928 748 R 2.8 0.9 0:00 top
1 root 0 0 484 484 424 S 0.0 0.5 0:05 init
2 root 0 0 0 0 0 SW 0.0 0.0 0:00 kflushd
3 root 0 0 0 0 0 SW 0.0 0.0 0:00 kupdate
4 root 0 0 0 0 0 SW 0.0 0.0 0:00 kswapd
5 root 0 0 0 0 0 SW 0.0 0.0 0:00 keventd
95 daemon 0 0 428 428 352 S 0.0 0.4 0:00 portmap
153 root 0 0 780 780 664 S 0.0 0.8 0:00 syslogd
156 root 0 0 824 824 408 S 0.0 0.8 0:00 klogd
161 root 0 0 692 692 596 S 0.0 0.7 0:00 rpc.statd
170 root 0 0 760 760 676 S 0.0 0.7 0:00 inetd
174 root 0 0 744 744 652 S 0.0 0.7 0:00 lpd
183 root 0 0 1208 1208 1076 S 0.0 1.2 0:00 sshd
187 root 0 0 3104 3104 632 S 0.0 3.2 0:00 xfs
190 daemon 0 0 584 584 504 S 0.0 0.6 0:00 atd
193 root 0 0 684 684 564 S 0.0 0.7 0:00 cron
196 root 0 0 468 468 408 S 0.0 0.4 0:00 getty
197 root 0 0 468 468 408 S 0.0 0.4 0:00 getty
198 root 0 0 620 620 536 S 0.0 0.6 0:00 xinit
199 root -11 -11 3868 2716 1616 S < 0.0 2.8 0:00 XF86_S3
201 kiosk 5 0 908 908 764 S 0.0 0.9 0:00 .xsession
1045 root 0 0 1920 1920 1656 S 0.0 2.0 0:00 sshd
1071 root 0 0 1220 1220 996 S 0.0 1.2 0:00 bash
1299 root 0 0 344 344 284 S 0.0 0.3 0:00 cat[1m
14:39:39 up 4 min, 1 user, load average: 0.99, 0.59, 0.24ESC[K
25 processes: 23 sleeping, 2 running, 0 zombie, 0 stopped
:
If I start as linux single from Lilo for override /etc/inittab settings
and login as common user, and type "xinit /usr/bin/galeon, it starts
perfect.
The system I have used here worked very well in redhat, and I am a
little stuck here now why it is not working in debian.
Anyone that is X Xperts, I will be very thankful for advice
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