Re: FC2 Gnome/KDE went south on me

From: Andre Costa (acosta_at_ar.microlink.com.br)
Date: 05/31/04

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    Hi Bruce,

    On Sun, 30 May 2004 19:32:36 -0400
    Bruce Ecroyd <bruce.ecroyd@gmail.com> wrote:

    > Hi Andre,
    >
    > This is helpful stuff.
    >
    > I turned off the nfs stuff, since I'm not using on my home network.

    Exactly, I do the same here.

    > Might as well eliminate variables, and stuff that will slow me down.

    ?... which variables? Anyway, turning useless services off is
    definitely a good thing. Run 'chkconfig --list' and you will see which
    services are turned on for each runlevel. If you wanna turn a specific
    service off _completely_ (i.e. for all runlevels), run 'chkconfig
    [service] off'.

    (be careful not to disable something you need -- make sure you
    understand what you're doing)

    > I did some updates this morning -- the updates I did this morning were
    > from the FC2 site. If I recall they were pretty minor. (I've applied
    > all that FC2 had available so far).

    I suggest you review what packages have been upgraded, maybe they will
    give you some clue.

    I still think there's gotta be some clue somewhere on the logs... but I
    know these things are hard to track =(

    Since X is still a suspect, one thing you could do is leave graphical
    login and start X by hand, so that you could monitor error msgs and
    timings. Do this:

    * CTRL+ALT+F1 (this will drop you into a text terminal)
    * login as root
    * run 'init 2' (this will change your runlevel to 2, which is
      non-graphical, NFS off -- take a look at /etc/inittab)
    * run 'startx > /tmp/x.log 2>&1' (this will start X manually)

    This should allow you to time X startup. Also, its output has been
    redirected to /tmp/x.log, check this file out when you leave X (either
    with logout or CTRL+ALT+BACKSPACE)

    In order to go back to runlevel 5 (X11), just type 'init 5; logout'.

    > The HD fortunately is SMART:
    >
    > === START OF INFORMATION SECTION ===
    > Device Model: WDC WD400JB-00ETA0
    > Serial Number: WD-WMAHM1427116
    > ...
    > SMART support is: Available - device has SMART capability.
    > SMART support is: Enabled
    >
    > === START OF READ SMART DATA SECTION ===
    > SMART overall-health self-assessment test result: PASSED
    >
    > SMART Self-test log structure revision number 1
    > Num Test_Description Status Remaining
    > LifeTime(hours) LBA_of_first_error
    > # 1 Short offline Completed without error 00% 225
    > # -
    >
    > I ran the short test, and it passed. I feel more confident that the
    > drive is good -- now on to figure what else happened :)

    Good news =) BTW: AFAIK you can start the long test while you're using
    your computer, you will just need to check the results later on
    (performance might be worse, though).

    HTH

    Andre

    PS: Just noticed: you're the 1st person I know using gmail.com =) 

    -- 
Andre Oliveira da Costa
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