[Fedora] Re: Remote VNC install

[Kam Leo]

On 2/2/07, Ashley M. Kirchner <ashley at pcraft.com> wrote:
>
>     Heh, I may be stuck again.  The installation ran fine and when I hit
> Reboot at the end, I was disconnected, as I would expect...  However,
> the machine has yet to go down and reboot.  It's been over 10 minutes
> now.  I can still ping it's IP, and nmap tells me that both ports 5901
> and 6001 are open (X11 and vnc) however I can no longer connect to vnc.
> At this point I'll just have to let it sit there till Monday since
> there's no one there anymore...no monkey to push a button again.
>
>     Anyone have any idea why it would be stuck, and/or on what?

If you have a uniprocessor system adding "apm=power_off" to grub may
fix the problem. Its a known kernel bug which appeared when the
uniprocessor and smp kernels were combined.

>     The saving grace here is that since it hasn't rebooted yet, it also
> hasn't configured any public interfaces, so it's still only visible on
> the local network and (fairly) safe from external attacks.  Had it
> rebooted properly and for some reason not allowed me to reconnect, then
> I'd be a bit more concerned.  Oh well, live and learn.
>
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> H | It's not a bug - it's an undocumented feature.
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