Since it has been two days with no response, and this kind of reminds
me of a problem I had several months back (but who knows if it is
related, thread at
<
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/users/2011-December/thread.html#...>),
On Fri, Apr 20, 2012 at 6:15 PM, Jonathan Allen
<jonathan(a)barumtrading.co.uk> wrote:
Hi list,
We have a multi-workstation network, with several nodes running F16/XFCE
on remote-mounted home directories.
Is the remote mounted home directory for the affected user accessible?
All users can log in and out without
any difficulty except one. This user gives name and password but then
freezes indefinitely.
Can the user log in non-X11 via ssh or on a virtual console? How about
logging in from a different box?
'ps' shows a variety of tasks running, but nothing
appears on screen except the standard wallpaper; time is present but
nothing else. Running are startxfce, xfce-session, etc.
How about xfwm4?
User can be
cleared by "kill -15 <startxfce-pid> and other users can log then log in.
Are other users blocked on the one box or all over the network?
What might be causing the freeze - is there some lockfile that needs
removing to unlock the user's account?
Jonathan
Have you tried the brutal method of deleting the caches or the xfce state?
--
Joel Rees