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KDM suddenly stopped working - This is an odd one
- From: "Stuart Powell" <stuart@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 28 Jun 2002 23:19:39 -0500
- Message-id: <HAEAICFGOEPNHBCFMHKPIEBJEOAA.stuart@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Hello, everyone.
A couple of weeks ago, I noticed that KDM was no longer running on a server
in the office. It is an HP Netserver LH3/2xPII-450/1GB RAM/Plenty-o-drive
space. KDM showed up in the process list, but all I would get on Screen F7
was a blinking white cursor in the top left hand corner; no GUI login.
After some digging around, I found that the /var/log/kdm.log file was 2GB
(yes, gigabytes) in size. This seemed a little large to me, so I deleted
it. Once this file was cleared, kdm launched as normal. Great, says I,
it's fixed. However, the kdm.log file immediately grew to around 300K in
size. When I checked it out, it was full of hundreds of lines beginning
with minl and moutl. I haven't seen this on any of our other machines, but
it seems that every time KDM starts on this box, the log file grows by a
large amount.
So, does anyone know what this problem might be indicative of ? I don't
relish the idea of having to keep an eye on the kdm.log file and clearing it
out every few weeks just to keep the service from bombing out.
By the way, this is SuSE 8 with a bunch of YOUed patches and it was doing
this with both KDE 3.0 and 3.0.1.
Thanks,
Stuart.
A couple of weeks ago, I noticed that KDM was no longer running on a server
in the office. It is an HP Netserver LH3/2xPII-450/1GB RAM/Plenty-o-drive
space. KDM showed up in the process list, but all I would get on Screen F7
was a blinking white cursor in the top left hand corner; no GUI login.
After some digging around, I found that the /var/log/kdm.log file was 2GB
(yes, gigabytes) in size. This seemed a little large to me, so I deleted
it. Once this file was cleared, kdm launched as normal. Great, says I,
it's fixed. However, the kdm.log file immediately grew to around 300K in
size. When I checked it out, it was full of hundreds of lines beginning
with minl and moutl. I haven't seen this on any of our other machines, but
it seems that every time KDM starts on this box, the log file grows by a
large amount.
So, does anyone know what this problem might be indicative of ? I don't
relish the idea of having to keep an eye on the kdm.log file and clearing it
out every few weeks just to keep the service from bombing out.
By the way, this is SuSE 8 with a bunch of YOUed patches and it was doing
this with both KDE 3.0 and 3.0.1.
Thanks,
Stuart.
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