Re: [K12OSN] reboot to login fixed

[Jim Hays <haysja sages us>]

I guess the lesson here is that clients should have at least 32 MB RAM.  We ran
in to a similar situation in a grade school in southern Illinois.  Upping the
RAM is the solution.

Quoting Doug Simpson <simpsond leopards k12 ar us>:

> I had one of those old Compaq all-in-one units at home using it with 
> K12LTSP and it worked very good for a 486DX33 with 16MB RAM.  But it would 
> occasionally just reboot. . . back to the login it would go.  I tried 
> everything I could to make it work but as you have also found, upping the 
> memory to 32MB stopped that problem.  It would run all day if I set it to 
> start in runlevel 3 and did everything from the shell.  But if X was 
> running. . .
> 
> DS
> 
> On Fri, 30 Jan 2004, Mark Gumprecht wrote:
> 
> > Thanks to all who helped. Installing more memory in the 2 pent 100 
> > machines to get them above 32mb worked and took care of the arbitrary 
> > xwindows fatal errors. It would kill xwindows and return to the login.
> > Thanks again
> > 
> > 
> 
> -- 
> Doug Simpson
> Technology Specialist
> DeQueen Public Schools
> DeQueen, AR 71832
> simpsond leopards k12 ar us
> XP is the biggest thorn in my side since Saddam Hussein!
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Jim Hays
Technology Director
Monticello CUSD#25
Monticello, IL  61856
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