Hi, On Wed, 01 Oct 2008, Luis Montes wrote:
> I wasn't able to authenticate on a text terminal either, so I couldn't > run top to see what was going on. The disks weren't really spinning much > either. > > Then about ten minutes later something freed up, and I'm in now. No > idea what it was, but with 8 x 2GHz cores and 16 gigs of ram, you'd > think it would be able to get through standard ubuntu init stuff without > issues. Agreed. Can you look back through /var/log/syslog and /var/log/messages during the time and see if there's anything that might indicate the source of the issue? One possibility might be a rogue process hogging all system RAM which eventually might have been killed by the kernel (that kill would be logged). There are many more possibilities though. > Related to my first problem though, why are the thin clients dependent > on the server being able to launch gdm itself? X on the server shouldn't > even be necessary. As far as I know, in LTSP5 gdm is not needed. It was in LTSP4 because gdm was what the clients connected to. However, as the client runs its own display manager and starts a session over ssh, I don't think gdm running is necessary. Presumably you've observed something that makes you think it is? Gavin -- edubuntu-users mailing list [email protected] Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/edubuntu-users
