Re: FC7 user dead

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Kam Leo wrote:
> On 6/7/07, Joe Barnett <joe.barnett@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> Perry Myers wrote:
>> > Antonio,
>> >
>> > I've seen this happen as well, and it wasn't disk related for me
>> either.  What I did find though was that there was a correlation
>> between having esd enabled and the locking up on login.
>> >
>> > Try editing:
>> > .gconf/desktop/gnome/sound/%gconf.xml
>> >
>> > in the user's home directory (from either root or a console login)
>> and set event_sounds and enable_esd to false.  They try logging in again.
>> >
>> > If this works please let me know...
>> >
>> > Perry
>> >
>> > antonio montagnani wrote:
>> >> 2007/6/7, mack <mack.sessoms@xxxxxxxxx>:
>> >>> in this situation, i usually log in as root and go after
>> everything in
>> >>> /tmp
>> >>> that has the non-working userid in the file or directory name, log
>> out
>> >>> root,
>> >>> try to log back in as user
>> >>>
>> >>>
>> >>>
>> >> what is strange is that if I log as root I find many processes still
>> >> running under the sleeping user (i.e.gam_server, esd,
>> >> bonobo-activation-server, nautilus)
>> >>
>> >> And after logging out from that user also the session closure window
>> >> freezes and the only way to log out is by Ctrl+Alt+Backspace!!!
>> >>
>> >> Maybe the only way is to delete the user and re-create it, using all
>> >> backup files..
>> >>
>> >
>>
>> I, too, have been experiencing similar problems.  Bad enough to make
>> Fedora 7 unusable.  I can get in and out of X two or three times
>> before it becomes unusable.  Even then, it might take two or three
>> attempts to "startx" before a usable desktop appears.
>>
>> After those first few times, X/Gnome simply will not complete it's
>> startup -- usually hanging with only the background image visible
>> (in this case, the default Fedora 7 desktop image).
>> CTRL+ALT+BCKSPACE usually gets me out.
>>
>> I started with an upgrade from Core 6, then cleaned out my entire
>> home dir, then finally did a completely fresh install.  All times
>> the same thing happens.
>>
>> All the while I *can* get into X as root, though an occasional
>> CTRL+ALT+BKSPACE is needed to get out.
>>
>> I have tried with and without sound enabled, with and without
>> livna's kmod-nvidia*, and with varying levels of customization to my
>> desktop.  Each time it is the same.
>>
>> (*On a side note, this is the first release in quite some time which
>> works on this machine without kmod-nvidia.)
>>
>> Otherwise, the machine is responsive, so if I cannot
>> CTRL+ALT+BKSPACE out of X/Gnome, I can ssh from another machine and
>> at least perform a relatively clean shutdown.
>>
>> Windows, Ubuntu, and OpenBSD operate on this machine without issue,
>> as did Core 6.  It has been so long since I have had to debug
>> something like this that I can barely remember where to find logs
>> and such.  Nothing in /var/log contains anything which would
>> indicate a problem with X/Gnome, is there another location where
>> such logs might be kept?
>>
>> What to know about this machine?  AMD Athlon 64 4000+ (2.4GHz),
>> 1.5GB RAM, nVidia sound (onboard stuff), nVidia 7600GT video.
>> Plenty of space on the machine, including some 60GB free space on
>> the /home partition.
>>
>> Anyone else dealing with something like this?
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Joe
> 
> Whose display driver are you using?
> 

I have tried both nVidia's proprietary (livna's kmod-nvidia) and the
default nv driver.  Same behaviour with both.

Thanks,

Joe
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