[K12OSN] hangs on X server screen

Eric Harrison eharrison at mail.mesd.k12.or.us
Mon Mar 14 20:32:57 UTC 2005


Joe Guenther wrote:
> 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.
>

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
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