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Re: Freezing up at login

At 1:19 PM -0800 1/9/08, Michael Bray wrote: 
Hello,

We've been having the same problem as Matt, and I am also unable to determine the cause (and solution!)

This has been happening ever since we started using Tiger, maybe 10.4.5, and still happens with 10.4.11. MCX, network home directories, Intel or PPC doesn't matter, and X-Serve Intel or PPC, that doesn't matter either. We've done various hardware upgrades and it keeps happening.

It's curious that the machine isn't really dead. I can SSH in, etc, and the machine works fine, it's just that the login window is waiting for something. And it seems there's no time-out in the login window, (hint, anyone from Apple listening that can fix that!) so the only way to recover is by holding the power button and restarting.

I've ravaged all the log files, and examined running processes and don't find anything tell-tale. I've also tried lowering the LDAP time-out to 1 minute, which has no effect.


I don't recall which process it was but I found that killing one of the lowest numbered (earliest) processes owned by the user that attempted to log in would abort the hang up. But it doesn't fix the problem, the same user logging in would hang again. So you can either SSH in or use ARD and the Unix command to do a ps command to find the problem process.
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Clark Martin
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