On Thu, 2008-04-10 at 13:35 +0930, Tim wrote: > On Wed, 2008-04-09 at 16:42 -0400, Matthew Saltzman wrote: > > So finally, I opened System -> Preferences -> Personal -> Sessions, and > > I discovered a couple hundred krb5-auth-dialog processes. I killed them > > all (but one), and saved the session. Now login happens much faster and > > there don't seem to be CORBA errors. > > > > Still a mystery: How did all those processes get there? > > Are you saving your sessions on log-out (either manually or > automatically). If so, perhaps that's where the fault is creeping in. I am, in fact. That may explain why active ones are being preserved, but doesn't explain what keeps starting them, or why they don't die when finished. Something to think about, though. Thanks. -- Matthew Saltzman Clemson University Math Sciences mjs AT clemson DOT edu http://www.math.clemson.edu/~mjs