crash instantly after successful login

[Gary Kline]

guys, 

late this thursday night on newtao, when i tried logging in--after a
crash and reboot, totally unexpected--i logged in as "kline", a gnome app
tried to collect data, then the OS crashed.  after three times i
successfully logged in a root, under gnome, and poked around hald seems to
have been missing.  [???] then i found this at the end of
/var/log/messages:

Sep  6 11:45:24 tao2 su: kline to root on /dev/ttyp3
Sep  6 11:57:15 tao2 su: kline to root on /dev/ttyp1
Sep  6 23:24:22 tao2 kernel: pid 671 (Xorg), uid 0: exited on signal 6 (core dumped)
Sep  6 23:24:23 tao2 gdm[657]: Error reinitilizing server
Sep  6 23:57:30 tao2 shutdown: reboot by root:
Sep  6 23:57:33 tao2 syslogd: exiting on signal 15
Sep  6 23:59:29 tao2 syslogd: kernel boot file is /boot/kernel/kernel


if anybody has seeen this before or otherwise knows what  is going on,
please let me know.

i did pkg_delete x11-fonts/webfont, fwiw.

thanks much,

gary

ps. i'm updating my ports tress and will let the portupgrade -aP
    run overnight.


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