[K12OSN] sudden appearance of grey X

[Robert Arkiletian]

On 5/25/07, William Fragakis <william at fragakis.com> wrote:
> 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.

I recently discovered that killing the vncreflector process fixed this problem.

kill `ps -ef | grep [v]ncreflector | awk '{print $2}'`

Actually I reset the broadcast in Fl_Teachertool which pretty much
does the same thing. It also kills all instances of teachertool-vnc

-- 
Robert Arkiletian
Eric Hamber Secondary, Vancouver, Canada
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