[K12OSN] sudden appearance of grey X
Les Mikesell
les at futuresource.com
Sat May 26 17:14:48 UTC 2007
Julius Szelagiewicz wrote:
>>> Jim, tried it very thoroughly (this is my usual sequence of testing when I
>>> get the grey X). This time, no joy - everything seems hunky-dory. Tried
>>> with iptables off as well, same.
>>> julius
>>>
> SERVER set ok, interface addresses unchanged. The nice? thing is that it
> isn't just terminals - vncviewer localhost also gets grey screen. xdcmp
> shows in netstat just as it should
> the phone calls are driving me nuts - 3 deep at the counter
> without computers. i shoud fire me.
> julius
Do you know if the desktop came up on the console? It sounds like you
might be in runlevel 3 instead of 5 on the server. You might find
something in the servers /var/log/Xorg.0.log if it is trying to start
and failing there too. The fact that vnc won't start a session makes me
think this is something on the server side but I'm not sure how to tell
remotely if it is at the basic X level or in the window manager startup.
You might also look through /var/log/messages and the output of dmesg on
the server to see if you are getting disk errors - it could be failing
to load some needed file due to a hardware problem.
Time to work a spare server into the budget for next year... This stuff
doesn't fail often but when it does the best quick fix is another one
that already works.
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Les Mikesell
lesmikesell at gmail.com
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