On Wed, Sep 18, 2002 at 01:54:01PM +0100, 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: > > [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"
This would not use the S3 X server but X4.1 which don't support S3 cards. You have to specifiy XSERVER = XF86_S3. > 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. As Jim pointed out, if the client runs out of RAM the Xserver would be killed and you would see some xdm error. However 16 Mb RAM should probably suffice a bit more. Another quit test would be to choose the "fail-safe" session from the gdm greeter (i.e. only one xterm)? If the client doesn't handle that, then the problem is probably not the RAM. As always, you can start in runlevel 3 and execute /tmp/start_ws. Then you can see the error message from X. -- Hans Ekbrand
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