Topic: cant get e-smith work !!!

[Hasan Al-Eid]

I've just installed e-smith 3.1 but after installation I got the following problems :


   - cant use the console to reboot/shutdown (nothing happens)

   - cant use the browser to login to the admin page, even though I can ping the      
     server and defined it as my gateway and dns and if I try to ping using the server
     name I dont get any reply!!

  - I tried to login form the console (Alt-F3) and used root as user and default as
    password but cant login ????

[Colin Mattoon]

I have found with some RedHat 6.0 installs (haven't seen this with E-smith, but E-smith 3.x is based on RedHat 6.0) that bad ram will cause similar symptoms (root login problem). On a couple of machines I had to replace some ram chips and reinstall. Then it worked fine...maybe you have a similar problem. BTW, the bios ram check identified the ram as good.