Luis Montes wrote: > Gavin McCullagh wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> On Wed, 01 Oct 2008, Luis Montes wrote: >> >> 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. >> >> >> > > Looks like there's been over 5000 errors like this: > "Oct 1 09:32:24 192.168.0.61 kernel: [152372.345437] end_request: I/O > error, dev nbd0, sector 200314" > since yesterday morning. > > > > >> 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 >> >> >> > GDM hanging definitely stops the thin clients from booting up. This is a > little harder for me to debug because I don't yet quite get exactly how > the new event based launcher works. > What happened monday was that apparently X stopped liking (maybe there > was an update) my server's ATI ES 1000. I finally was able to switch to > framebuffer and that got passed "Starting Gnome display manager", which > then allowed some other service to start which allowed the thin clients > to boot. > > Luis > > > >
Ok guys I'm still dead in the water. So how do I go about just not using NBD at all? What's the 8.04 default? I thought that swap over network was for thin clients with very low ram. All of mine have at least 128MB isn't that enough? Thanks, Luis -- edubuntu-users mailing list [email protected] Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/edubuntu-users
