[K12OSN] most terminals unab;e to connect after yum update

[David Trask]

You using gdm or kdm?  I only ask because a couple years ago I had a
probelm very similar that for some reason only affected Compaq machines,
and switching to gdm made the difference.

"Support list for open source software in schools." <k12osn at redhat.com>
writes:
>On Fri, 8 Sep 2006, William Fragakis wrote:
>
>> go through the trouble-shooting steps on wiki.ltsp.org for x on gray
>> screen
>>
>> http://wiki.ltsp.org/twiki/bin/view/Ltsp/Troubleshooting-GrayScreen
>>
>> occasionally, if you use the fedora repositories, your gdm.conf file
>> gets overwritten with the standard Fedora file which closes the relevant
>> port for xdmcp (iirc, 177). The other files for xdm (again, iirc)
>> xdm-confif and Xaccess may have been affected too.
>>
>> you'll need to restart xdm afterwards to get things going. No worries,
>> though, it's not a big one to sort out.
>>
>> regards,
>> William Fragakis
>> morrisbrandon.com
>> On Fri, 2006-09-08 at 12:00 -0400, k12osn-request at redhat.com wrote:
>> >
>> > Message: 4
>> > Date: Fri, 8 Sep 2006 10:34:57 -0400
>> > From: Julius Szelagiewicz <julius at turtle.com>
>> > Subject: [K12OSN] most terminals unab;e to connect after yum update
>> > To: k12osn at redhat.com
>> > Message-ID: <EE12ECB6-2668-454B-868F-60F8EA7338E6 at turtle.com>
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>> >
>> > Dear Folks,
>> >   this has really stumped me and it is an emergency: I did yum
>> > update
>> > on k12 v5 production server yesterday. After reboot (to the old
>> > kernel), most terminals get a beautiful X on the screen. The few
>> > that
>> > got login screens took several minutes to display desktop. The
>> > logged
>> > in users have no further problems. 26 terminals just don't want to
>> > come up. All worked before update!
>> > I checked the custom.conf file - looks just fine, lts.conf has a
>> > single config for all terminals.
>> >
>> > The users are beginning to riot an are asking for "dependable
>> > windows". Thanks, julius
>
>William,
>	it -would- be easy to troubleshoot if -all- the terminals got a
>big fat X. It isn't all that easy, for me, that is, to figure out why some
>get the login screen and then proceed to desktop very, very slowly ... and
>i did go through the "standard grey screen of life" troubleshooting :-)
>julius
>
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David N. Trask
Technology Teacher/Director
Vassalboro Community School
dtrask at vcsvikings.org
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