Re: f12 sometimes is slow to start

On Fri, Apr 16, 2010 at 6:48 PM, Bruno Wolff III <bruno@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Fri, Apr 16, 2010 at 12:52:28 +0200,
 Natxo Asenjo <natxo.asenjo@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

There is one little problem. Every now and then when I boot the laptop
it kind of 'freezes' and a few minutes later it works as it should
without any other problems. I can change to a virtual terminal and
login there, but if I try to login graphically it will take me like 2
to 3 minutes to complete the process. I cannot see anything in the log
files.

You might want to check you disk drives using smartctl (in the smartmontools
package). If you have some bad blocks, they could cause probelms.

I thought about that :) ; according to pamlipsest the disk is healthy
and has passed all tests.

On that time interval I would suspect either dns timeouts or lots of disk
activity as what you are waiting on.

the dns setup both at home as at work is solid (I'm a sysadmin, so
yes, I know). I fail to see how dns should have local graphical logins
slow down randomly, to be honest. Could you care to ellaborate?

As to disk i/o, nope, it's nearly non-existent. I can logon a vt and
start top and the system is idle.

Any other ideas?

tia,
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natxo
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