[K12OSN] hangs on X server screen

[M.Pribik]

Hi
This behaviour happed to me too even twice. I could not do nothing. After
ALT-F2, ALT- F1 I had very poor
shell that periodicaly resets to gray X screen. /aprox.30 sec/
I had reinstall the system from CD. After that it worked.
Regards Marian


----- Original Message -----
From: "Joe Guenther" <jguenther at chinooksedge.ab.ca>
To: <k12osn at redhat.com>
Sent: Monday, March 14, 2005 8:45 PM
Subject: [K12OSN] hangs on X server screen


> 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
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