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Fight ATSServer stall at login
Authored by: AaronMartin on Oct 17, '06 12:21:53PM

I had the same problem on an intel mini today. The system is running 10.4.8 and gets its home directory from a 10.3.9 OSX Server box. Apparently the ATSServer proc is in persistant mode under tiger as killing the process resulted in another ATSServer process starting right away and ramping quickly up to 95% cpu. I removed the cache directory as per one of the other replies and then killed the offending process. The newly spawned ATSServer had no problems and the user's login process finally completed with their desktop coming up the rest of the way
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