On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 3:49 PM, Paul Cartwright <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > it happened again. my wife complained that her login was locked up, she > couldn't read her email. > I did a CTRL-ALT-F7 to get to my login, works fine, email... > > ps -ef|grep kmail > found her process, killed it. > CTRL-ALT-F8 to get to her login, still locked up. nothing works. > CTRL-ALT-F7 to get back to mine. > > # ps -ef|grep famd > USER_ 4409 1 86 10:01 ? 07:32:13 /usr/sbin/famd -T 0 > > /etc/init.d/fam restart > > everything works fine again.. > # ps -ef|grep famd > root 18821 1 0 18:42 ? 00:00:00 /usr/sbin/famd -T 0 > > the other user USER_ owned the famd process.. but when I restarted it, root > owns it.
I don't know about this particular issue, but I found famd to be a constant source of problems. Gamin is better, but not perfect. I actually don't have either one installed - not very many things actually depend on them. I do have libfam installed - lots of things depend on that or libgamin, but even libfam and libgamin don't depend on their daemons (they merely suggest them). Unless you really need fam, you should look into removing it. Cheers, Kelly Clowers -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
