Rakeswell
09-07-2001, 10:11 PM
It all started when Red Hat 7.1 would hang on logout. Because I had to reboot the machine using the power switch, I think this messed up *at least* the .mozilla files, whcih pretty much messed up the browser's functionality.
I managed to get the machine to logout after I removed a serial cable from /dev/ttyS0 (the "management" cable for the Cisco 678). But this was only temporary, as the hang on logout problem started up again.
This time I realized that were I to have logged in as root or any other user, there were no problems on logout.
So I logged in as root and copied some files I needed into a new diretory, deleted the "problem" account and all subdirectories, then added a new user account (with the same name), and finally copied those files I saved into the new account.
At this point, the new account works fine, except that the browser has crashed for no reason a few times, and when I try to configure the sawfish window manager, gnome configurator tells me:
[Sawfish isn't running]
None of the other accounts seem to have that problem.
The files I copied over from the old account were just some HTML files and some JAVA programs I'm working on.
I used "useradd" and "userdel" to set up and remove the accounts.
All my hardware is on the Rhat HCL
My questions are:
1) Is there something seriously flawed with my install of RH 7.1 -- can I possibly get this stuff to work in a stable, reliable way?
2)What sorts of things can cause an account/accounts to become so messed up?
3)I don't want to start a flame-war here, but which of the main distros is most known for its stability? I'm afraid Slackware and FreeBSD may be over my head just now...
Thanks all!
I managed to get the machine to logout after I removed a serial cable from /dev/ttyS0 (the "management" cable for the Cisco 678). But this was only temporary, as the hang on logout problem started up again.
This time I realized that were I to have logged in as root or any other user, there were no problems on logout.
So I logged in as root and copied some files I needed into a new diretory, deleted the "problem" account and all subdirectories, then added a new user account (with the same name), and finally copied those files I saved into the new account.
At this point, the new account works fine, except that the browser has crashed for no reason a few times, and when I try to configure the sawfish window manager, gnome configurator tells me:
[Sawfish isn't running]
None of the other accounts seem to have that problem.
The files I copied over from the old account were just some HTML files and some JAVA programs I'm working on.
I used "useradd" and "userdel" to set up and remove the accounts.
All my hardware is on the Rhat HCL
My questions are:
1) Is there something seriously flawed with my install of RH 7.1 -- can I possibly get this stuff to work in a stable, reliable way?
2)What sorts of things can cause an account/accounts to become so messed up?
3)I don't want to start a flame-war here, but which of the main distros is most known for its stability? I'm afraid Slackware and FreeBSD may be over my head just now...
Thanks all!