problem with intermittent slow login, sudo and kdesu
BIll
treetop at udata.com
Tue Dec 18 12:04:14 UTC 2007
I don't know of any, but I'm fairly new at this. Sorry I couldn't be of
more help.
Bill
On Sat, 2007-12-15 at 06:37 -0500, Paul Kaplan wrote:
> 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
>
>
>
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