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