Re: Incredibly slow to boot - any ideas?

N. Pauli wrote:

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.

Hm, if it isn't a hardware problem, there may be something running (maybe gconf) and using all the CPU time. You can find out with top what that might be.


GH


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