[K12OSN] sudden appearance of grey X

[Julius Szelagiewicz]

On Sat, 26 May 2007, Les Mikesell wrote:

> 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.
>
> --
>    Les Mikesell
>     lesmikesell at gmail.com
>
Les,
	who -r says "run-level 5"

	I never bothered to get the gui on the console going, since I
rarely if ever use it. This was not a problem before.i