Re: Incredibly slow to boot - any ideas?

On Thu, 30 Mar, listrcv wrote:
N.Pauli wrote:
All of a sudden my machine has become incredibly slow to boot up and to launch anything - boot up took over 5 minutes and launching an app like Mozilla or OpenOffice can take just as long. All the while
the harddisk drive light is burning constantly. It is as if there is some process that never completes, takes a long time to time out and restarts itself whenever I launch an app. Once I'm in, apps seem
to run fairly normally. I've looked at 'top' and can't see any culprit there. I had this happen once before and it was solved by making sure that nothing was plugged in to a usb port while booting up or
even logging on. The last significant things I have done prior to this happening do a normal update and upgrade using Synaptic and install Liferea.

Check out the syslog, there may entries about resetting the IDE bus or
sector errors of your disk drive. It sounds like a hardware problem.


GH


I don't think it is hard disk - but please don't think I speak with either authority or conviction. Philippe de Rycke pointed me towards some HD inspection progs but they haven't turned up anything alarming yet - as far as I can see.

Thanks for your tip about syslog. I had a look at it and what I did find out was that something called gconf has star billing in syslog. I don't know what it does but it doesn't seem happy! Tomorrow I'll try to find out more about it - but in the meantime if anyone can tell me what and why it is I'd be dead chuffed.

Nigel

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Nigel Pauli
Network Manager
St. John's School, Northwood






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