famd

[Paul Cartwright <ale@pcartwright.com>]

My wife & I stay logged into our sessions, switching users all the time.  I 
have noticed a few times, and it happened again this morning. WHen I switch 
to my session, I am put into the login screen, as if I logged out. So I add 
my password, and the login process starts, starting the KDE login script, 
going through those icons on the screen. Except now it stalls at the first 
icon that looks like an internal HD. It stays there for a while, then 
everything disappears except for the blue background.
	I switched to the alt-F1 text login, and looked for processes running owned 
by me. All that I saw was famd.
I did a pkill famd, went back to my  KDE login screen ( ctrl-alt-F7) , put in 
my password, and voila, I was logged in.
Is famd necessary? is famd causing this?
-- 
Paul Cartwright
Registered Linux user # 367800
Registered Ubuntu User #12459