On Wed, Jan 30, 2002 at 02:25:31AM -0800, David Wright wrote: > I am trying to set up a diskless workstation (to centralize maintainance) but > am having problems getting X sessions to work.
I have done this as well. > The system boots (from a floppy, then mounts root and /usr seperately over > nfs), and I can login and work from a text console. The xdm login appears, > but when I log in, something goes wrong. Sometimes I am logged right back > out (auth.log shows pam_unix logging me in and out within a few seconds, > and I can't find any log messages in between). Sometimes gnome begins to > load, but then it dies with a message that "x-session-manager crashed". > Graphical login works fine on the system that I used as a template, and I > have only made trivial changes to /etc (hostname, fstab). Is there someone > out (perhaps with diskless X experience) who can give me a hint on how I > need to change the gnome or X or sawfish configuration to work disklessly? Sounds like the user's home directory or /tmp is not writable. > The fact that the behaviour is not entirely reproducable also makes me > suspect that running without swap might be a problem. Memory shouldn't be a > problem -- this machine has 1 GB and I'm barely working it -- but is there > some stuff one needs swap for anyway? Is there perhaps some kernel compile > flag that disables swap attempts completely? Perhaps, but I doubt it. -- Henry House The attached file is a digital signature. See <http://romana.hajhouse.org/pgp> for information. My OpenPGP key: <http://romana.hajhouse.org/hajhouse.asc>.
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