[expert] pam problem

[Steven Broos]

Since I've tried to run harddrake, I have something strange with PAM.
In my notification panel is now a blank space (size of an icon) and my process-list looks a little overcrowded by pam.
I can kill them, but it comes back every time.  If I do "killall pam-panel-icon pam_timestamp_c" 10 or 20 times very fast after each other, it doesn't come back.  but if I log out, and log back in, all those instances of pam are back.

I tried to rename the /etc/pam.d directory (stupid me) for preventing it to load.  result: I had to use a rescue disk to change it back, because I couldn't even log in on a tty anymore...

I've been looking for pam-files in my homedir, to delete possible entries, but couldn't find anything.

Can anyone help me with this please ?  It's wasting 11 times 3.5 MBs of my memory.

Thank you in advance !
Steven



]$ ps -AH |grep pam
2178 ?        00:00:00   pam-panel-icon
2199 ?        00:00:00     pam_timestamp_c
2180 ?        00:00:00   pam-panel-icon
2200 ?        00:00:00     pam_timestamp_c
2182 ?        00:00:00   pam-panel-icon
2201 ?        00:00:00     pam_timestamp_c
2184 ?        00:00:00   pam-panel-icon
2202 ?        00:00:00     pam_timestamp_c
2186 ?        00:00:00   pam-panel-icon
2205 ?        00:00:00     pam_timestamp_c
2188 ?        00:00:00   pam-panel-icon
2204 ?        00:00:00     pam_timestamp_c
2190 ?        00:00:00   pam-panel-icon
2203 ?        00:00:00     pam_timestamp_c
2192 ?        00:00:00   pam-panel-icon
2207 ?        00:00:00     pam_timestamp_c
2194 ?        00:00:00   pam-panel-icon
2206 ?        00:00:00     pam_timestamp_c
2196 ?        00:00:00   pam-panel-icon
2208 ?        00:00:00     pam_timestamp_c
2198 ?        00:00:00   pam-panel-icon
2209 ?        00:00:00     pam_timestamp_c