[K12OSN] sudden appearance of grey X

Julius Szelagiewicz julius at turtle.com
Sat May 26 04:26:44 UTC 2007



On Fri, 25 May 2007, William Fragakis 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.
>
> 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
> > Message-ID:
> >         <Pine.GHP.4.43.0705251040100.4150-100000 at turtle.turtle.com>
> > Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII
> >
> > 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 :-)
> >
William,
	the logs are clear. Do you know of a memory test I can run from
afar?

julius




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