Booting with a disconnected network cable causes all sorts of strange
behavior.
mac mini
kernel 2.6.11-1.1177_FC4
gdm-2.6.0.7-5
xorg-x11-6.8.2-13
[bhughes@minimac ~]$ cat /etc/hosts
# Do not remove the following line, or various programs
# that require network functionality will fail.
127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost minimac
[bhughes@minimac ~]$
eth0 uses dhcp
I set up a cronjob that checks the network connection every five minutes
so I can login viz ssh with the machine in a locked up state. I will
probably look to see if there is a way to setup a usb console next since
there is no serial port.
runlevel 5 : X is just a blank screen. login screen never displays.
Nothing I do from the keyboard works. connecting via ssh after
connecting the nic I can see that gdm launches X but no X never runs
anything.
Once this happens if I reboot into runlevel 3, the screen is shifted to
the left and lines in the console are missing the leftmost characters.
Booting into runlevel 3 after shutting the machine down and booting into
runlevel 3 the console looks normal and I can log in ok but startx still
hangs
Any Ideas?
Could there be something needing a dns lookup?
Bret
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