[K12OSN] sometimes a gray screen with x to rdp

[Jack Palmadesso]

I had the same problem.  For me it turned out to be DNS.  Specify the
Windows Terminial Server by IP instead of name and see what happens.

Jack

On 3/29/06, Paul VanGundy <vangundypw at sau14.k12.nh.us> wrote:
>
> Barry,
>
> Perhaps XDMCP?
>
> -Paul
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: k12osn-bounces at redhat.com [mailto:k12osn-bounces at redhat.com] On
> Behalf
> Of Barry Cisna
> Sent: Wednesday, March 29, 2006 7:43 AM
> To: K12OSN
> Subject: [K12OSN] sometimes a gray screen with x to rdp
>
> Hello List,
>
> Could someone possibly shed some light on how to troubleshoot this
> scenario.
> Sometimes, and it does not happen very often, on one of our K12LTSP
> servers,
> when trying to do the CTL+ALT+F2 at the K12LTSP login to direct to the
> Windows terminal server the clients that are connected to this server get
> the gray screen with X after getting the "Press enter to login"( to the
> windows terminal server). It never does this to the actual K12LTSP server
> login. It only happens on this particular server.
> A simple reboot of this K12LTSP server fixes the problem, but i was just
> trying to pin down what service has actually died, that requires a reboot
> to
> bring it back from the dead. I m guessing its something to do the gdm,or X
> (version) maybe? I was wanting to maybe just restart some service without
> having to restart the server while other people are logged into K12LTSP.
> I have went through the nicely detailed "gray screen with X"
> troubleshooter on the LTSP wiki, by Jim M but everything pans out fine
> with
> all the diagnostics that i gathered from that how to.
> Any thoughts, ideas?
>
> Barry Cisna
>
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