slightly OT: lightdm problem with ubuntu 15.10

[Robert Markula]

Hi John,

that's probably due to a missing package. You could do a standard Ubuntu
install (from CD or USB drive that is) on the machine in question, print
the installed packages and then, on the same machine, run a FAI-based
install, print the installed packages again and compare/diff both
package lists.

Cheers,

Robert


Am 22.12.2015 um 17:14 schrieb John G Heim:
> I'm installing ubuntu 15.10 via FAI. Actually, all I did was take a
> working ubuntu 15.04 config and change the sources.list file so it
> installs ubuntu 15.10 on selected machines. The beauty of FAI is how
> easy it is to do something like that. The main problem I'm having is
> that there is no network or sound icon on the lightdm login screen.
> And the problem with that is that without sound, the accessible logins
> don't work. I'm blind myself butsince this is a university, we're
> legally required to have an accessible login anyway.
>
> Anybody have a clue as to why sound wouldn't work in lightdm? I am
> sorry to ask a question that is a little bit OT but I am just really
> stumped.
>
> My sighted colleague tells me that there is a menu bar at the top of
> the screen just like in a working ubuntu machine but the sound and the
> network icons are missing. Logins work though. You get sound after you
> log in and the screen reader works fine.  I examined the lightdm logs
> and see nothing meaningful.
>