Andrew, I know you said the workstation has 16mb of ram, but I wonder if the Linux kernel is actually detecting all of the ram.
If the kernel runs out of memory, it will go on a killing spree, and usually the first thing to go is the Xserver. You might try setting USE_NSF_SWAP = Y to see if that has any effect. Jim McQuillan [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Wed, 18 Sep 2002, Andrew McKinney wrote: > Hi List, > > I'm having problems with a diskless workstation running in runlevel 5. > The box is a Pentium with an on-board PCI S3Trio64 and 16 Mb-o-RAM. > I'm using LTSP v3.0.5 with the ltsp_x336_s3-3.0.0 x server. > The DM I'm using is gdm. > > The problem seems to happen after I log in. As a normal non-priv user, > the Xserver crashes immediately. If I try and log on as root, I can get > to the gnome splash-screen, before X dies again. > > I don't think its a problem with my lts.conf setup as the gdmlogin is > displayed fine. Here the snip anyway: > > -- SNIP -- > [ltsp] > XSERVER = auto > LOCAL_APPS = N > USE_NFS_SWAP = N > SWAPFILE_SIZE = 48m > RUNLEVEL = 5 > X_MODE = 640x480 > X_COLOR_DEPTH = 8 > X_HORZSYNC = "30-64" > X_VERTREFRESH = "50-90" > -- SNIP -- > > I'm getting the following in /var/log/messages on the ltsp server: > > Sep 18 13:43:11 dns gdm[1246]: gdm_slave_xioerror_handler: > Fatal X error - Restarting ltsp.nwb.n-i.nhs.uk:0 > > A trawl through google doesn't throw much up on the error. > I've also tried using xdm, and I've had the same problem: > > xdm error (pid 1131): fatal IO error 32 (Broken pipe) > xdm error (pid 1140): fatal IO error 32 (Broken pipe) > xdm error (pid 1149): fatal IO error 32 (Broken pipe) > > from xdm error log. > > Any ideas? Thanks in advance. > > Andrew > -- > Andrew McKinney > I.T. Officer > N&WBHSST > > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.NET email is sponsored by: AMD - Your access to the experts > on Hammer Technology! Open Source & Linux Developers, register now > for the AMD Developer Symposium. Code: EX8664 > http://www.developwithamd.com/developerlab > _____________________________________________________________________ > Ltsp-discuss mailing list. To un-subscribe, or change prefs, goto: > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ltsp-discuss > For additional LTSP help, try #ltsp channel on irc.openprojects.net > -- ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.NET email is sponsored by: AMD - Your access to the experts on Hammer Technology! Open Source & Linux Developers, register now for the AMD Developer Symposium. Code: EX8664 http://www.developwithamd.com/developerlab _____________________________________________________________________ Ltsp-discuss mailing list. To un-subscribe, or change prefs, goto: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ltsp-discuss For additional LTSP help, try #ltsp channel on irc.openprojects.net
