Re: [K12OSN] X locking up a server.

[Eric Harrison <eharrison mail mesd k12 or us>]

Doug Simpson wrote:
> I have a wierd problem.
> 
> I have a FC3 K12LTSP server that when booting, if you have it set to
> boot to runlevel 5 (graphical login) it gets to the point where it
> starts X and locks up the server. Hard lock.  You can't get different
> consoles and you can't shell in or anything.
> 
> If it is set to boot to runlevel 3, it will boot and run fine.  Login
> and startx and X will run, but when you try to logout, it hard-locks the
> server that way, too.
> 
> Does anyone have any ideas about how to fix this?
> 
> Thanks!
> 

I've had a dying video card do this to me. If you have a spare card
laying around, try swapping it out.

Worse-case, you tell the server to not startup X in run level 5. Edit
/etc/X11/gdm/gdm.conf  and comment out this line:


	# 0=/usr/bin/X11/X,#0=/usr/bin/X11/X


if you use XDM or KDM, edit /etc/X11/xdm/Xservers and comment out

	#:0 local /usr/X11R6/bin/X


-Eric