[ltp] System Hang on Logout

[James McKenzie]

Gary:

If you can ssh in, kill off the session for the hung user by looking for 
a pts session other than your session.  In my case I have an ssh session 
under pts/0.  You can then use ps -ef and grep to find all of the 
processes for that user and you can use kill {process id 1} {process id 
2}...{process id n}.  Do not kill any processes NOT associated with that 
pts session or you may end up with an unstable system.  BTW, this is 
what I had to do when I put an unstable update on my system and I had to 
ssh in and back out the update and reboot.

James McKenzie


Gary Huntress wrote:

>I have a very generic installation of RH9 on a 600e.  The only continuing
>problem that I have is that X  (or Gnome?) freezes when a user logs out.  It
>appears more likely to happen the longer X is in use but thats only a gut
>feeling.
>
>The exact symptom is that if a user chooses to log out from X (run level 3
>or 5) applications will close and usually all desktop icons will disappear
>and visually I see a very slow vertical screen refresh that appears to crawl
>down the screen, taking maybe 5 seconds.  Most hangs leave just a totally
>blank desktop with the default background image.  The only thing I can do is
>reboot.
>
>I have looked in /var/log/messages and have not seen anything apparent,
>although I'm not exactly sure what to look for.
>
>I tried to "yum update" and "yum upgrade" both XFree and Gnome but I'm
>apparently up to date.
>
>The system is not frozen, if I recall correctly I can still ssh in (I did
>not try this for my most recent freeze).
>
>Any tips appreciated.
>
>Regards,
>
>Gary H.
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