problem with intermittent slow login, sudo and kdesu

[Paul Kaplan]

Good thought, but not the case.

Where else would a system search for passwords?  Files that might be used for 
(possibly non-existant) networks?

Paul

On Friday 14 December 2007 9:36:27 am BIll Taylor wrote:
> I'm not very knowledgeable of Ubuntu or linux in general but something
> like this used to occur with WindozzXp. It occurred when my path setup
> included directories which no longer existed.
>
> Bill
>
> On Fri, 2007-12-14 at 03:17 +0000, pkaplan1 at comcast.net wrote:
> > In the past week I have encountered an odd problem when my password is
> > required on kubuntu 7.10.
> >
> > About 20% of the time I login, the system appears to hang for 20-30
> > seconds after I enter my password and before loading the window manager. 
> > At other times, the window manager starts loading as soon as I hit the
> > return key after entering my password.
> >
> > Similarly, when I run an application using sudo (either from the CL or a
> > gui) sometimes (maybe 50%?) the system waits 20-30 seconds before
> > launching the app.  When it happens w/ sudo, it is unrelated to the times
> > that the slow login occurs.  There's no obvious trace of a problem in the
> > system log.
> >
> > When this happens it's as if there is some process that is using all of
> > CPU resources, but I can't find anything with a process monitor and the
> > hard disk doesn't spin incessantly.
> >
> > Has anyone else encountered this behavior?  Have you identified a fix?
> >
> > Paul