On Wed, Aug 13, 2008 at 04:28:11PM -0400, Ken Heard wrote:
> One of these computers is a desktop.  From a cold boot it appears to  
> load the operating system without incident -- as far as I can tell --  
> right to the kdm login manager.  Once a user name and password are  
> entered it loads KDE in about 5-10 seconds.

    Instead hit cntl-alt-F1, login, run top and see what's going on.  Or 'ps
auwx' if nothing obvious show up on top.  If I had to guess it might be Strigi
or Beagle indexing at an inopportune time.

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         Steve C. Lamb         | I'm your priest, I'm your shrink, I'm your
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