Re: XFCE Login Freeze

2012-05-04 Thread Joe Zeff
On 05/04/2012 08:10 PM, Joel Rees wrote: With X11 down, log in to the account for the user that is having problems, and use startx or the current equivalent, and see if you can start that way. startxfce4 is, IIRC, the command you want. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsu

Re: XFCE Login Freeze

2012-05-04 Thread Joel Rees
I had the disappearing title bar problem again just now and thought of another thing you might try, referencing the thread I post a link to several weeks ago: http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/users/2011-December/411290.html We used to set the default run level to 3 to keep X11 from starti

Re: XFCE Login Freeze

2012-05-03 Thread Joel Rees
On Thu, May 3, 2012 at 8:06 PM, Jonathan Allen wrote: > Joe Zeff said: >> /home/user/.xsession-errors would be another good place to check. > > Here is it - should that tell me how to go forward?  The signal 15 is > when I terminated the xfce session from a root console session. > > Jonathan > +++

Re: XFCE Login Freeze

2012-05-03 Thread Jonathan Allen
Joe Zeff said: > /home/user/.xsession-errors would be another good place to check. Here is it - should that tell me how to go forward? The signal 15 is when I terminated the xfce session from a root console session. Jonathan +++ /usr/bin/startxfce4: X server already running on display :0 ssh-ag

Re: XFCE Login Freeze

2012-05-02 Thread Joe Zeff
On 05/02/2012 05:30 PM, Joel Rees wrote: Well, then, the user should try to log in on a regular X11 session (usual graphical login), get the freeze, then log in immediately via ssh or a virtual console and look at his hidden files under the home directory: ls -lart ~/ or /home/username if the a

Re: XFCE Login Freeze

2012-05-02 Thread Joel Rees
On Mon, Apr 23, 2012 at 4:47 PM, Jonathan Allen wrote: > Joe, > >> >No-one else can get a graphical session on that box because the graphical >> >console is taken with the stalled session, but console logins are still >> >fine and other users can freely start graphic sessions on other machines >>

Re: XFCE Login Freeze

2012-04-23 Thread Jonathan Allen
Joe, > >No-one else can get a graphical session on that box because the graphical > >console is taken with the stalled session, but console logins are still > >fine and other users can freely start graphic sessions on other machines > >on the network. > > What happens if somebody else tries to lo

Re: XFCE Login Freeze

2012-04-23 Thread Joe Zeff
On 04/22/2012 11:51 PM, Jonathan Allen wrote: No-one else can get a graphical session on that box because the graphical console is taken with the stalled session, but console logins are still fine and other users can freely start graphic sessions on other machines on the network. What happens i

Re: XFCE Login Freeze

2012-04-22 Thread Jonathan Allen
Joel, > Since it has been two days with no response, and this kind of reminds > me of a problem I had several months back ... > > > We have a multi-workstation network, with several nodes running F16/XFCE > > on remote-mounted home directories. > > Is the remote mounted home directory for the aff

Re: XFCE Login Freeze

2012-04-22 Thread Joel Rees
Since it has been two days with no response, and this kind of reminds me of a problem I had several months back (but who knows if it is related, thread at ), On Fri, Apr 20, 2012 at 6:15 PM, Jonathan Allen wrote: > H

XFCE Login Freeze

2012-04-20 Thread Jonathan Allen
Hi list, We have a multi-workstation network, with several nodes running F16/XFCE on remote-mounted home directories. All users can log in and out without any difficulty except one. This user gives name and password but then freezes indefinitely. 'ps' shows a variety of tasks running, but nothi