I wrote: > Then, recent updates to gnome managed to kill *that* windowing > environment.
Well, I at least figured out why the login sessions subsequent to trying gnome were hanging... The system dbus process spawned a child for the gnome session, and the child went "<defunct>" when gnome hung. Stopping and restarting dbus took care of the problem of not being able to login remotely or on a virtual console. This is an improvement of sorts: as long as I'm logged-in on a virtual console as root when gnome leaves the rails, I can recover without having to hit the reset switch. Another improvement is, the terminal window in the hung gnome session continues to function when the window manager dies. -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Bob Tracy | "Talk is cheap because supply exceeds demand." r...@frus.com | -- Bill Kennedy ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-alpha-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
