Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 6743
login problem
Last modified: 2008-05-01 11:37:52 EDT
I've been using RH since version 4.xxx (can't remember exaactly), so I'm pretty sure it's not me! I bought version 6.1 and have it set up to go to the gui directly, rather than going to the terminal first. Using a fresh installation, it works fine for about a week or two. After that, here's the problem: I login to a user account and the "desktop" for that account either doesn't load or takes a really, really long time to load (I've never waited for it to complete but if I did it would probably take about 5 minutes or so). My solution so far has been to kill the X server (ctrl-alt-backspace) and then login again. Everything's OK after that. I'm using a PII Toshiba laptop (Satellite Pro 4015 CDT with 96MB ram) and RH6.1 as the sole OS on my system. This has happened across several re-installs. I always assumed it was something I did while installing, and would re-install the complete OS. Everything would always work OK for awhile (about 20 logins), then it would hit the crapper as described above.
I can't reproduce this; to debug it, it would be helpful if you did the following: - in your .Xclients, change the plain "exec" to "exec strace -f -o debug-output" - reproduce the problem (try to cause a slow login) - if you get a slow login, change "exec strace -f -o debug-output" back to "exec" before you try to log in again; debug-output will be overwritten every time you log in, you need the one from the slow login - mail the file debug-output in your home directory to hp@redhat.com Thanks! I'm going to mark it WORKSFORME for now but will reopen if you get a chance to send me this debug-output file