[ILUG] pxelinux + Grey screen with large X cursor

[Paul Kelly]

Hi 
 
Thanks Ronan that has helped me through the pxe load. 
 
Now I seem to have another problem.  
I'm just getting a grey screen with a large X cursor on my workstation. 
This indicates that the X server is running, but it has not been able to make

contact with a display manager. 
I'm using LTSP - v3.0 Documentation and have gone through the trouble shooting
section 
for this problem. 
I have checked /etc/inittab for the a line like this: 
x:5:respawn:/etc/x11/prefdm -nodaemon 
There is no line like this but I am using Mandrake 9.1 and not Red Hat 
 
here is my /etc/ininttab file: 
id:5:initdefault: 
 
# System initialization. 
si::sysinit:/etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit 
 
l0:0:wait:/etc/rc.d/rc 0 
l1:1:wait:/etc/rc.d/rc 1 
l2:2:wait:/etc/rc.d/rc 2 
l3:3:wait:/etc/rc.d/rc 3 
l4:4:wait:/etc/rc.d/rc 4 
l5:5:wait:/etc/rc.d/rc 5 
l6:6:wait:/etc/rc.d/rc 6 
 
# Trap CTRL-ALT-DELETE 
ca::ctrlaltdel:/sbin/shutdown -t3 -r now 
 
# When our UPS tells us power has failed, assume we have a few minutes 
# of power left.  Schedule a shutdown for 2 minutes from now. 
# This does, of course, assume you have powerd installed and your 
# UPS connected and working correctly. 
pf::powerfail:/sbin/shutdown -f -h +2 "Power Failure; System Shutting Down"

 
# If power was restored before the shutdown kicked in, cancel it. 
pr:12345:powerokwait:/sbin/shutdown -c "Power Restored; Shutdown Cancelled"

 
 
# Run gettys in standard runlevels 
1:2345:respawn:/sbin/mingetty tty1 
2:2345:respawn:/sbin/mingetty tty2 
3:2345:respawn:/sbin/mingetty tty3 
4:2345:respawn:/sbin/mingetty tty4 
5:2345:respawn:/sbin/mingetty tty5 
6:2345:respawn:/sbin/mingetty tty6 
###################################################################### 
I have also checked the display manager to see if it configured to  
ignore requests from remote hosts.  
They don't seem to be set that way. 
 
At a lost here. Any one come across this problem before???????? 
 
Slan 
 
Paul 
Jammy

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