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Re: Freezing up at login



On 1/9/08 4:14 PM, "Clark Martin" <email@hidden> wrote:

> 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.

Killing the 'loginwindow' process running as user N should terminate user
N's entire session. The GUI should return to the login window. If it
doesn't, you've got a nastier problem. :-)

Matt
 


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