John Summerfield wrote: > Ed Greshko wrote: >> Mail List wrote: >>> Anyone know what be causing what appears to be something in cron >>> (4 am or so) freezing the machine - started happening the last week >>> or so after some bout of updates - including kde 3.5.8. >>> >>> After kde update I had to diable knetwork manager which made the >>> machine interminably slow for user to login - removing it fixed that >>> problem - nm is not runnning. >>> >>> Now it is freezing around 4 am .. any ideas what may be >>> causing this ? Its been a happy F7 machine for a long time prior to >>> this ? >>> >>> I could not find any interesting info in log files. Box is not >>> visible to internet either. >>> >>> Thanks for any pointers ... >> >> No idea.... >> >> However, for troubleshooting you can try at least one of two >> approaches... >> First, determine what cron jobs are being at run 4AM and then do one >> (potentially both) of the following. > > Daily housekeeping. >> >> 1. Run the jobs manually one at a time. >> >> 2. Disable all the jobs from running except one and then enable one >> per day >> until you have problems. > > Run half. You eliminate one half immediately. Oh, now you're being efficient. :-) > > Enable to okay part, and half the other. Repeat until done. > > > This is why I do not do automatic updates, ever. I've been saying since > RHN was introduced, back around Valhalla's time, it was a bad idea. > Automatic downloading is good. I like to see what changes, and what's > proposed to change. Even security fixes aren't necessarily urgent. > > > > > > -- Excuse me, but didn't I tell you there's NO HOPE for the survival of OFFSET PRINTING?
