gnhlug-discuss Digest, Vol 68, Issue 2

[Bruce Dawson]

I suspect powering off before logging out, or not doing a proper
shutdown is the root of most of the problems. Especially where cache is
involved.

Sounds like something isn't being cleaned up and it trips up the cache.
A lot of session logic depends on a coherent cache.

--Just my $0.02 --Bruce

On 05/15/2012 11:37 AM, Jon "maddog" Hall wrote:
> This sounds to me like a race condition that causes you to run out of
> some critical resource while the system is starting up.
>
> There are a lot of processes that are kicked off during start up and it
> takes an abnormal amount of resources.  After you are up and running
> these resources are freed up as the start-up processes die.
>
> The resource that comes to mind is virtual memory "swap" space, and it
> may be that you need to expand that, particularly on machines with
> smaller amounts of main memory.
>
> Other ideas?
>
> md
>
> On Tue, 2012-05-15 at 09:20 -0400, Michael Nolin wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>> On Tue May 8 12:54 , David Ohlemacher sent:
>>
>>         "I have LMDE xfce installed on several machines (two from
>>         zareason).  I will warn you about some things that happen to
>>         them once in a while.
>>         
>>         1. Rarely: When I boot up, my windows will all be missing
>>         their title bars. They also all get piled up in the upper left
>>         corner.  One cannot move them.  It happens once a month or so.
>>         Rebooting or restarting X will not fix it.  The first symptom
>>         is that I see the XFCE mouse splash screen much longer when X
>>         starts.
>>         
>>         The way I fix it:
>>         - Press Cntrl-Alt-F2 to bring up another text tty.
>>         - $ cd ~/.cache
>>         - $ rm -rf sessions
>>         - $ sudo service gdm3 restart"
>>         
>>         
>>         
>>         
>>         I have a similar problem with my SUSE 12.x xfce  the windows
>>         manager will be lost on boot on occasion.  
>>         
>>         The way I fix it:  xfwm4  in the single remaining xterm locked
>>         at the top of the screen. 
>>         it seems the windows manager gets dropped from the session
>>         manager on occasion.  logging out through the session manager 
>>         restores the window manager setting.  Until the next occasion
>>         were it gets lost.  Perhaps when I shutdown with out logging
>>         out?  
>>         
>>         Michael Nolin 
>>         Embedded Solutions Unlimited, LLC 
>>         http://embedded-unlimited.com 
>>         
>>
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