[NTLUG:Discuss] Login problem

[Fred James]

Is this some kind of power management thing in the CMOS or something?

Greg Edwards wrote:

> This one is driving me nuts.
>
> One of my workstations won't login.  This system has Mandrake 8.2, 
> stock kernel, and KDE setup with kdm (XDM) Login manager.  This only 
> happens 1st thing in the morning.  I actually have to reboot before I 
> can login to the system through kdm.  I know KDE looks a little like 
> Win9x but I don't want the 3 finger solute to be the norm here.  I 
> have a second workstation with virtually the same hardware and 
> distribution setup on it without this issue.
>
> I can switch to a console (f1-f6) login and do about any non GUI thing 
> I want.  If I run an init 3 followed by init 5 my consoles die 
> completely.
>
> Any ideas?
>
> TIA,


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