On 22 Feb at 4:37 Mike Bird <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> On Thu February 21 2008 19:32:09 Jamin Davis wrote: > > Paul Cartwright wrote: > > > I switched to the alt-F1 text login, and looked for processes running > > > owned by me. All that I saw was famd. I did a pkill famd, went back to > > > my KDE login screen ( ctrl-alt-F7) , put in my password, and voila, I > > > was logged in. Is famd necessary? is famd causing this? >> > > Can't see that famd would be causing this - see what you've got > > installed that requires it by doing apt-cache rdepends fam. ISTM you are > > being automatically logged out of your KDE session - have you got Kiosk > > mode enabled or TMOUT set somewhere in your login scripts? What happens > > if you disable the screensaver and 'require password' in KDE? Does this > > happen for other user accounts? > > FWIW, I had famd go 100% on me in KDE twelve hours ago. Haven't seen that > kind of famd problem since a couple of years ago. No idea what caused it, > and I hadn't been swapping sessions with another user. I killed famd and > KDE has been working just fine without famd for twelve hours. > [snip] Running Etch/KDE. Just to support this, I've had famd go 100% on 3 occasions in the last week :(. The problem is manifested by logins failing (I've not seen an auto log-out), and dog-slow responsiveness, and some applications simply crashing. Restarting the fam deamon (sudo /etc/init.d/fam restart) restored things to normal. Yesterday, I was doing a lot of image editing using Gimp, web page editing with Quanta, and viewing the results in Iceweasel. Things started to get sluggish, and I noticed famd was sitting at 80% processor time. Restarted famd, and all was well again. Like the OP I have been in the habit of leaving my log-in session running for days, and in particular, leaving a number of Iceweasel windows open. Last night I shut everything down (but didn't log off), and famd was happily asleep this morning. Keeping it under review... Cheers, Tony -- Tony van der Hoff | mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Buckinghamshire, England -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
