Borkages with recent rawhide ....
Tom London
selinux at gmail.com
Sun Jul 27 21:14:25 UTC 2008
On Sun, Jul 27, 2008 at 11:24 AM, Tom London <selinux at gmail.com> wrote:
> Following issues with recent rawhide:
>
> 3. I can no longer complete gdm login: I get about 10 seconds after
> the gdm-greeter screen is displayed before the system freezes.
> Doesn't matter what I do: trying to login or just sitting there....
> I did manage once to 'cntl-alt-F1' and login once before it froze, but
> I only got a couple of seconds before that froze too. After staring
> at frozen screen for a minute or two, I got an "oom" dump (took a
> picture of screen). Booting up in runlevel 3 and issuing 'startx' does
> work, however. BZ'ed here:
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=456819
>
Turns out this issue is a problem with the preload package, not gdm
(sorry gdm!). Sometthing was causing preload to spawn a never ending
number of spawned processes that eventually consumed all resources.
I removed the preload package and this issue went away.
tom
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