Hi!
All of these machines have identical hardware. They use Linksys USB100TX
USB network interfaces, and are on a 100Mb ethernet segment. The machines
themselves are AMD K6-2+ systems, with 32Mb of RAM. The boot volume is a
16Mb sandisk, and they mount everything but /etc, /dev, and /boot
It turned out to be a problem with dhclient. It wanted to write to
/etc/resolv.conf which was on a read-only file system at the time.
Eventually, it crashed out - perhaps trashing the interface configuration
on its way down.
I moved resolv.conf to /usr/local/etc and symlinked it in /etc - and the
I appreciate the help so far in trying to get these X terminals going.
Unfortunately, I have discovered another oddity, this time with sshd and
dhclient. I'm not sure if they are related or not.
The first is with sshd. Randomly, and for no apparent reason, sshd will
refuse to allow logins.
