OS X Server :: Login Screen Suddenly Scrambles / Connecting To VNC Through ARD's
Feb 8, 2007
I'm trying to diagnose our new intel servers and VNC.They're of varying configurations in terms of memory, disks, etc, but all are the new xserve model.
Here's what happens.
When connecting to VNC either through ARD's built in software or chicken of the vnc we can see the login screen perfectly, but as soon as we login it suddenly "scrambles." The second a monitor is plugged in the remote display "clears" and again becomes usable.
Here's what's been done so far;
Rebooted the server (VNC broken)
Ran software update (VNC broken)
Booted the server with a monitor attached (VNC works)
Unplug the monitor after reboot + login + monitor plugged in. (VNC continues to work.)
Here's the problem. When I reboot the server I don't need to go through a song and dance to login remotely after a reboot.
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May 1, 2012
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Mac Pro
Early 2008
Model Identifier: MacPro3,1
Processor 2 x 2.8 GHz Quad-Core Intel Xeon
Memory 16 GB 667 MHz DDR2 FB-DIMM
Graphics ATI Radeon HD 2600 XT 256 MB
Software OS X 10.9.4 (13E28)
Boot ROM Version: MP31.006C.B05
SMC Version (system): 1.25f4
This is the first time I've encountered this. Upon cold booting the machine it went directly to the legacy Mac OS X Server login screen from before the upgrade to Mavericks. It would not let me login with current credentials. I had no choice but to hard power off. It returned to normal operation on restart.
It could be a possible bug.
Info:
Mac Pro, OS X Mavericks (10.9.4)
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I have tried both a Windows 7 client and a 10.6 client, specifying SMB as the protocol in the Connect To Server dialog. Both fail, and they also take several minutes before reporting the bad password (the slowness in responding is yet another problem I've read as being an issue). Checking the kdc.log file on the server I see:Â
2012-02-09T09:54:22 digest-request netr: failed user=AD\dlennie DC status code c000006d
2012-02-09T09:54:22 digest-request: netr failed with -1073741715 proto=ntlmv2
2012-02-09T09:54:22 digest-request: od failed with 2 proto=ntlmv2
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Mac Pro, Mac OS X (10.7.3), OSX Lion Server
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First of all, I've got a 2009 MacBook running Snow Leapord.
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Starting yesterday, my screen randomly started scrambling and unscrambling. It started while I was watching a video on Youtube. The video would freeze but the sound would keep going, and if I moved the internet browser window (Google Chrome at the time) my screen would become covered in hundreds of the same window. It's difficult to explain; it's like copies of the same window would remain wherever I moved it. Certain things returned the display to normal: Pressing F3 rapidly, hovering my mouse over the bottome of the video, and pressing Command+Shift+4 to take a screenshot to post with this (which is why I don't have one for you guys; the problem fixed its self when I tried.
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Feb 09 13:39:05 server.xxxx.priv krb5kdc[512](debug): handling authdata
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Feb 09 13:39:05 server.xxxx.priv krb5kdc[512](debug): .. .. ok
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