User login hangs system

[Net Llama!]

On 03/11/03 18:17, Bill Davidson wrote:
> I decided to give gentoo a try recently, and also decided to play around
> with alsa. I couldn't get alsa working, but that's a problem for another
> day. In trying to get the alsa modules to load, my system would hang,
> taking out everything(keyboard, network), requiring a manual reset. 
> 
> Now my system appears thoroughly hosed. It hangs just like above when I
> try to log in as a user other than root. I tried removing the user and
> adding it again, as well as adding a new user. I have no problems with
> root. When I run a command, such as less somefile, the screen fills up
> with junk, I get a message telling me to hit enter(I forget the exact
> message). When I hit enter, the command executes as normal.
> 
> One other thing. reiserfsck reports no filesystem corruption and nothing
> shows up in my logs. Any ideas. I thought about recompiling the bases
> system, but it doesn't seem to me that reinstalling everything would be
> necessary.

so at no time was there any file system corruption?

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