[K12OSN] gdm gray/grey screen if no internet...

James P. Kinney III jkinney at localnetsolutions.com
Sat Oct 11 03:10:47 UTC 2008


Sounds like a DNS problem. Make sure all host names/IP are in /etc/hosts
or run a DNS server on the LTSP server.

On Fri, 2008-10-10 at 13:53 -0700, Alfred Nutile wrote:
> hello we are using 4.2 ontop of ubuntu.
> 
> And I was wondering if the isos for centos/redhat have this same
> problem.
> 
> If the internet is off ie pull the cable between router and the cable
> modem out, then turn on a thin client all you get is a grey screen.
> 
> If I plug it in the screen appears to the gdm login in seconds.
> 
> Wondering if anyone else expereinces this? Or should we go with
> Centos?
>  
> 
> ltsp.org forums seems to say this is an issue they can not fix and we
> should go with LTSP5.
> 
> But we can not go with LTSP5
> 
> 
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