[K12OSN] Stuck boot
Mark Gumprecht
gumprechtm at msln.net
Thu Jun 3 17:05:19 UTC 2004
Found the problem and not sure why.
The firewall was set to medium and was denying clients. I thought I had
been cracked, the logs don't indicate that. Is there a definite way to
tell if someone tampered with that or has this happened to anyone else?
I changed all passwords to be on the safe side.
Mark
Huck wrote:
>this seems to be a 'feature' =)
>each of my test-bed-servers when participating in a sudden loss of power
>or power surge
>have consistantly failed to allow clients to connect afterwards...
>
>usually though I end up with the Grey Screen and black X cursor...
>I refer to the ltsp documentation 6.6.1 I believe someone pointed out to
>me on a previous
>thread last month...and modify 2 or 3 config files having to do with gdm
>or something...
>then reboot the server normally(likely a non-required step), and then
>clients connect...
>
>So I'd stress to those who don't have their servers on UPS's...to try
>and get them onto one =)
>saves some time in the long run.
>
>--Huck
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: k12osn-bounces at redhat.com [mailto:k12osn-bounces at redhat.com] On
>Behalf Of Mark Gumprecht
>Sent: Thursday, June 03, 2004 6:56 AM
>To: Support list for opensource software in schools.
>Subject: Re: [K12OSN] Stuck boot
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>Josiah Ritchie wrote:
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>>Have you checked your switch yet?
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>>Might be a good idea to reboot/power
>>cycle it as well.
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>Rebooted it, no change.
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>>Is 253 working?
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>All 3 machines won't connect
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>>In the future a quick power outage can
>>be covered nicely with a UPS and solve a lot of headaches.
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>My test bed machine, no spares for it, lack of money |:o(
> I compared a top command of this machine with another working testbed
>and the only difference is the lockd service is running on the machine
>that does not work. I did a man lockd and is says that it is nothing to
>worry about. So I tried to kill the PID and it wouldn't stop. Don't know
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>if that was a good idea or not, but it's not working as is! Mark
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Mark Gumprecht
Data Systems Specialist
MSAD#3
Unity, Maine 04988
Gumprechtm at msln.net
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