On Mon, 01 Oct 2007 13:49:48 -0700 Bart Schaefer barton.schaefer@gmail.com wrote:
Make sure DNS is working properly. For some reason, Xorg and/or GDM has a problem starting up if networking is unavailable and/or DNS lookups can't be performed.
That's interesting. Do you know of anything in particular that I should look at or test in this regard? Internet access to and from this machine appears to be working perfectly. (I can ssh in from here and run a web browser and browse web pages with no problem.)
On this note, it may be relevant to note that this machine is a LTSP 4.2 server.
All of the terminals come up just as they should when the server is booted up -- the gdm login screens appear on all of the terminals; it's just the gdm login screen on the server itself that fails to load.
Some judicious editing of /etc/hosts may work around this.
Do you see anything wrong with this? It looks pretty much the same as what I had on the Fedora 6 machine that this is replacing.
# Do not remove the following line, or various programs # that require network functionality will fail. 127.0.0.1 main.server main localhost.localdomain localhost 142.165.59.200 theatre 69.11.102.182 webserver ## LTSP-begin ## # # The lines between 'LTSP-begin' and 'LTSP-end' were added # on: Tue Sep 25 20:51:56 2007, by the ltspcfg configuration tool. # For more information, visit the LTSP homepage # at http://www.LTSP.org #
192.168.0.1 ws001.ltsp ws001 192.168.0.2 ws002.ltsp ws002 192.168.0.3 ws003.ltsp ws003 192.168.0.4 ws004.ltsp ws004
.. and so on to
192.168.0.252 ws252.ltsp ws252 192.168.0.253 ws253.ltsp ws253 192.168.0.254 ws254.ltsp ws254
## LTSP-end ##