On Sun, 2005-12-18 at 20:29 -0700, Jon D. Slater wrote: > Claude Jones wrote: > > On Sun December 18 2005 8:18 pm, Jon D. Slater wrote: > > > > > Any ideas what's up? > > > > > I doubt this is it, but I'll offer it because I just spent two days fighting > > the exact same problem on a fresh install of a different distro. The problem > > - it turned out that NDISwrapper was my culprit. I don't have all the issues > > fleshed out, yet, but, I throw this out since our similar events are so > > coincidental. In my case, I had NDISwrapper on my laptop to get my broadcom > > wireless to be able to use its Windows driver - when I configured it, I had > > it set to start on boot, and that's what threw it. It spent a huge amount of > > time trying to start wlan0 and was unable to (for reasons I'm still trying to > > understand), and that hogged all my system's resources - boot time slowed to > > about 15 minutes > > > My boot time if fine. And X starts fine too (I get my login screen > within a couple of minutes of booting). > > The problem starts as soon as I enter my login and password, then > press enter. > > My disk access light comes on solid, and it takes 15 minutes to > complete start my session. ---- go to a virtual console and watch top... <control><alt><F2> login as root run 'top' <alt><F7> # return to GUI login as normal <control><alt><F2> see which process is using up the CPU Craig
