12.04 server oddity

[Phil Dobbin]

On 05/08/2013 01:06 PM, Kushagra Sharma wrote:

> seems so ... video card should not be a problem..
> well.. about ssh ..
> 1)you can check whether ssh is running or not ( sudo service ssh status).
> 2)i am not good with all this.. but the last time when i ssh-ed, i just
> added exception in ufw.. ufw allow port 22/23/24
> or another way is to look in iptables.. but i really never looked into
> that much.. ufw manages that . 
> -------
> ( please do let me know about updates on this issue.. I am  pretty young
> and a keen learner :) )

If you can't ssh in (ssh was running: I got to the password stage) & you
have a black screen on the target machine, you can't disable the
firewall short of hooking up a serial port of which I no longer have the
necessary wherewithal to do.

So you're stuck. By the way, try to keep your replies addressed to the
list & not the author so that others may read them too. Also, top
posting is frowned upon on virtually every well mannered mailing list
but, to everybody, please let's not start a flame war about it ;-)

Cheers,

  Phil...

> On Wed, May 8, 2013 at 3:57 PM, Phil Dobbin <bukowskiscat at gmail.com
> <mailto:bukowskiscat at gmail.com>> wrote:
> 
>     Hi, all.
> 
>     I have an old Dell Poweredge 650 which, on one of its drives, is quite
>     happily running CentOS 6.4 Gnome Desktop.
> 
>     I installed Ubuntu 12.04 Server on its second drive successfully but
>     when it rebooted it told me that the Screen was out of range & the
>     refresh rate needed to be 60Hz & 1280 x 1040. I found this puzzling to
>     say the least that a headless server with no GUI whatsoever is
>     complaining about screen resolution.
> 
>     I had to scrap the install because ufw was automatically enabled & I
>     couldn't ssh in to get a terminal running from another machine on the
>     network.
> 
>     I subsequently installed Debian 6.0.7 with a full Gnome Desktop to see
>     if that'd be OK & it works fine but it's not ideal for what I'm after.
> 
>     Has anybody else seen anything like this? I realise it's complaining
>     about the antiquated ATI Rage video card but it really shouldn't be a
>     problem on a headless server.

-- 
currently (ab)using
CentOS 5.9 & 6.4, Debian Squeeze & Wheezy, Fedora Beefy, Spherical &
That Damn Cat, Lubuntu 12.10, OS X Snow Leopard & Ubuntu Precise,
Quantal & Raring
GnuPG Key : http://www.horse-latitudes.co.uk/publickey.asc