[K12OSN] sudden appearance of grey X

[William Fragakis]

This probably has a 1% chance of helping you but we had a server that
would suddenly give everyone the ltsp equivalent of the middle digit -
the grey screen X. The clients would get dhcp and boot fine right to the
X. Turns out it was a bad piece of ram. Don't know if your log files
reveal anything interesting.

William 

On Fri, 2007-05-25 at 12:00 -0400, k12osn-request at redhat.com wrote:
> From: Julius Szelagiewicz <julius at turtle.com>
> Subject: [K12OSN] sudden appearance of grey X
> To: k12osn at redhat.com
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> Dear Folks,
>         I am stumped. A server that has been happily running K12 V6
> rebelled after reboot. I don't get login screens on teminals nor on
> VNC
> access. No files appear to be changed. xdm-conf is allowing
> management,
> hosts file is fine, stopping iptables doesn't help, switching to kdm
> doesn't help. The users are screaming and I am home sick. Ideas,
> please,
> pretty please.
> julius
> 
> p.s. the server is 1600 miles away from me :-)
>