[CentOS] why kdm crashes

Thu Sep 19 01:05:11 UTC 2013
Miranda Hawarden-Ogata <hawarden at ifa.hawaii.edu>

We have a pretty standard installation of CentOS 6.4 on our 
workstations. We've been running into issues where kdm crashes every 
once in a while when someone tries to log in on the console. The only 
way to recover when it happens seems to be to restart kdm (kill -HUP 
`pgrep -f /usr/bin/kdm`) (or reboot of course) and it never seems to 
happen twice in a row. I am not sure where to start looking to see why 
kdm would crash like this so intermittently. Does anyone have any idea 
why this might be happening?

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Thanks!
Miranda