I suspect powering off before logging out, or not doing a proper shutdown is the root of most of the problems. Especially where cache is involved.
Sounds like something isn't being cleaned up and it trips up the cache. A lot of session logic depends on a coherent cache. --Just my $0.02 --Bruce On 05/15/2012 11:37 AM, Jon "maddog" Hall wrote: > This sounds to me like a race condition that causes you to run out of > some critical resource while the system is starting up. > > There are a lot of processes that are kicked off during start up and it > takes an abnormal amount of resources. After you are up and running > these resources are freed up as the start-up processes die. > > The resource that comes to mind is virtual memory "swap" space, and it > may be that you need to expand that, particularly on machines with > smaller amounts of main memory. > > Other ideas? > > md > > On Tue, 2012-05-15 at 09:20 -0400, Michael Nolin wrote: >> >> >> >> On Tue May 8 12:54 , David Ohlemacher sent: >> >> "I have LMDE xfce installed on several machines (two from >> zareason). I will warn you about some things that happen to >> them once in a while. >> >> 1. Rarely: When I boot up, my windows will all be missing >> their title bars. They also all get piled up in the upper left >> corner. One cannot move them. It happens once a month or so. >> Rebooting or restarting X will not fix it. The first symptom >> is that I see the XFCE mouse splash screen much longer when X >> starts. >> >> The way I fix it: >> - Press Cntrl-Alt-F2 to bring up another text tty. >> - $ cd ~/.cache >> - $ rm -rf sessions >> - $ sudo service gdm3 restart" >> >> >> >> >> I have a similar problem with my SUSE 12.x xfce the windows >> manager will be lost on boot on occasion. >> >> The way I fix it: xfwm4 in the single remaining xterm locked >> at the top of the screen. >> it seems the windows manager gets dropped from the session >> manager on occasion. logging out through the session manager >> restores the window manager setting. Until the next occasion >> were it gets lost. Perhaps when I shutdown with out logging >> out? >> >> Michael Nolin >> Embedded Solutions Unlimited, LLC >> http://embedded-unlimited.com >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> gnhlug-discuss mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/ > > _______________________________________________ > gnhlug-discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/ _______________________________________________ gnhlug-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/
