FC7 user dead

[Kam Leo]

On 6/8/07, antonio montagnani <antonio.montagnani at gmail.com> wrote:
> 2007/6/8, Tim <ignored_mailbox at yahoo.com.au>:
> > On Thu, 2007-06-07 at 21:56 +0200, antonio montagnani wrote:
> > > what is strange is that if I log as root I find many processes still
> > > running under the sleeping user (i.e.gam_server, esd,
> > > bonobo-activation-server, nautilus)
> >
> > I've seen that from time to time, on FC4 - FC6 (I haven't tried FC7,
> > yet).  Something doesn't quit when you exit, and it prevents them from
> > logging back in.  I'd go to a virtual console, login as root, and kill
> > off the processes one by one that should have been closed when that user
> > logged out.  That usually solved it.
> >
> > --
> > (This box runs FC5, my others run FC4 & FC6, in case that's
> >  important to the thread.)
> >
> > Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored.
> > I read messages from the public lists.
> >
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>
> Tim, logging in a console doesn't solve the problem for a standard
> user!!! his/her competence should not require these tricks...I am
> running Fedora in a semi-production environment where I have
> illiterated users
> I experienced same problem that Joe Barnett describes very well.
> And I did't follow what perry suggested because I had already deleted
> the user and recreated him, recovering all data from backup: and I
> hope not to have same problems during next upgrades (one is on his
> way...)
> In any case I am running Nvidia card but with standard driver (I had
> not upgraded to close Nvidia drivers), and plenty of space.
> I had a similar problem when upgraded from FC5 to FC6 on a standard machine...
>
> Tnx to all
>
> --
> Antonio Montagnani
> Skype : antoniomontag

Why are you using such a short lived product in a
production/semi-production environment? If cost is a factor why not
use CentOS 5?