<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <meta content="text/html;charset=ISO-8859-1" http-equiv="Content-Type"> <title></title> </head> <body bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#000000"> Eric, thanks for the advice.. ... I have 2 120Gb SATA hdds RAID striped with a logical volume as automatically done by the Fedora Core 3 setup. It is 9.3% full. I did create separate partitions on the logical volume - not sure how to check those for disk free space. Now the server again gives the GUI login screen - after sitting for a couple of hours. ... really puzzled by what is / has happened here. Even when the workstations were stuck on the grey X screen, the CPU usage was 1-2% as per usual - so not that the server seemed too busy ... now they work again, although I have not tried the whole lab - just the workstation in my office. thanks Joe Guenther Eric Harrison wrote: <blockquote cite="mid4235F4F9.1030700@mail.mesd.k12.or.us" type="cite">Joe Guenther wrote: <blockquote type="cite">This morning, on an othewise functional 4.2 system for the past 2 months, a whole lab had trouble logging in a the terminals. The workstations would boot, but stay stuck on the grey screen with the big X cursor. I then rebooted the server, and with one or two workstations booting simultaneously I got the class logged in. Then on logout, all workstations are stuck on the grey X screen. no reboot of the server has solved this. I have deleted the entire /tmp directory in an attempt to clear crud that has stuck around ... no luck What is happening? are there tmp, cache or log files that need to be cleared? These workstations were fine on Friday and at 8:00 this morning I could get in from a workstation in my office, but now nobody can get in. Is there a cron job that I can create to keep this from happening again? Joe Guenther = = = = = = = = = = = = = Lantech - Didsbury Chinook's Edge School Div. </blockquote> Any chance that one of your partitions is full? Open a shell and run "df" to see if you have any partitions that are >90% full. If you can't log into the gui, even as root, you can go to the server and type "Alt-F1" to get to a text command prompt. "Alt-F7" will get you back to the gui. -Eric !DSPAM:4235fe5f140261319016710! <pre wrap=""> <hr size="4" width="90%"> _______________________________________________ K12OSN mailing list <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:K12OSN@redhat.com">K12OSN@redhat.com</a> <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/k12osn">https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/k12osn</a> For more info see <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="http://www.k12os.org"><http://www.k12os.org></a> !DSPAM:4235fe5f140261319016710! </pre> </blockquote> </body> </html>