Re: [SLE] SuSE freezes after KDE login.

From: Dan (dan-suselist_at_execit.dk)
Date: 01/31/05

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    Ken Schneider wrote:

    >On Mon, 2005-01-31 at 13:18, Dan wrote:
    >
    >
    >>Ken Schneider wrote:
    >>
    >>
    >>
    >>>On Mon, 2005-01-31 at 08:21, Dan wrote:
    >>>
    >>>
    >>>
    >>>
    >>>>Hi all.
    >>>>I have a strange problem with my SuSE 9.0 box.
    >>>>The problem happens now and then:
    >>>>When I log on as a user at the KDE login prompt, the login dialog box
    >>>>disappears and the system COMPLETELY freezes. All the services STOP and
    >>>>I can't get in contact with it, so the only thing I can do is power it
    >>>>off manually and reboot the machine which I don't like doing!
    >>>>
    >>>>This doesn't happen everytime, but I have noticed that it happens after
    >>>>I have done the following:
    >>>>1) the machine boots into runlevel 3
    >>>>2) I issue a "telinit 5", log in to the GUI
    >>>>
    >>>>
    >>>>
    >>>>
    >>>Instead of issuing init5 use startx instead.
    >>>
    >>>
    >>>
    >>>
    >>Thanks. I will try that in the future.
    >>When I am in KDE and want to shut that down to free up memory, what
    >>should issue, telinit 3 ?
    >>
    >>
    >>
    >No, just log out and you will go back the original terminal window you
    >used for startx.
    >
    >
    >
    Thanks for all the feedback. I understand how it works now.
    :-)
    Regards,
    Dan 

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