Re: Login manager will not let me log in - machine thrashing
On Thu, Nov 20, 2008 at 03:53:13PM -0500, Ken Heard wrote:
> Later I discovered that I could open my user and root from a virtual
> terminal. So to test my suspicion I opened root in F1, went back to F7
> and entered my user ID and password and immediately went back to F1.
>
> There I opened top. In about 15 seconds the memory filled up, all 2GB
> of it, and then in another 15 seconds or so the swap space also filled
> up -- again all 2GB of it. Top does not indicate any untoward use of
> memory; only about 40 KB seem to be in use by applications.
Try again, but set up top first, ordered by memory usage (not processor
usage), set a delay of a half second.
What happens if you run startx from the VT instead of using the login
manager? (don't know the details since I _alwasy_ use startx).
Doug.
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