Re: [SLE] Login problems

From: Jerry Feldman (gaf_at_blu.org)
Date: 01/07/04

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    Date: Wed, 7 Jan 2004 17:34:22 -0500
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    On Wed, 7 Jan 2004 12:44:38 -0600
    "Rob Sell" <lists@facnd.com> wrote:

    > I'm having big problems,
    >
    > SuSE 9.0
    >
    > My system was working fine yesterday. Today I come in and login as
    > myself, the systems fires off thousand's of bash shells which tie up
    > all ram and swap. The only way I can login is on the console is as
    > root which logins fine. Until I fire up yast2, yast2 comes up fine but
    > when I launch add/remove software module thousands of sh's fire off.
    > They eventually die out but it locks the system tight for about 5
    > minutes.
    >
    > I don't know if this is a symptom or a cause, but I tried to enable
    > telnetd through the network services module, it wasn't installed so it
    > said package telnetd will be installed and then when I clicked ok it
    > crashed out.
    >
    > Then I noticed the problems start.
    >
    > I have deleted my user and home dir and recreated it, and tried
    > creating a different user to no avail.
    Try booting the system up into run level 3.
    Log on as one of the users you created. If that does not spawn multiple
    shells, then the problem could be with your mouse.

    Then, from that account run several commands, like ls, ps, ...

    Then, bring up YaST (in character cell mode). perform some of your
    needed system tasks. (You need to become root to do that).

    Then while still in your user account start your GUI by running the
    startx command. Let's see how that works.

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