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Re: Pandora Login Failure

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From: Allan Schaffer
Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 22:45
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spec01@solomon.technet.sg (Quak Wan Ling) said..
>I'm presently  using Iris Indigo running on OS 4.0.1
>Suddenly one day nobody is able to log into the Indigo
>using the pandora screen, even the root user !!!
>However, other unix machines(not SGI) are able to rlogin
>into the system. I tried using the diagnostic test when
>rebooting the system  to check the system. It turns out no
>error... Kindly help me out what's wrong with the system ???

Check to see if /etc/config/system.glGammaVal has a length of 0.  
If so, edit the file and put the number 1.700000 into it.

The next login attempt will fail, but all subsequent login attempts
should be fine.

Allan
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Allan Schaffer
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