DB wrote: > Just tried to copy the file on the F12 laptop... only 324MB of 1.7GB get > copied. > > I'm beginning to wonder whether my F12 installation is without error, as > I keep losing my (KDE) panels. Each time I add a new one (so that I can > open these files etc) the widget-adder show x copies of the widgets > being in use - but I can't find a way of materialising the invisible > panels.... Also, if I "zoom out" I see 2 "screens", one plain blue, one > the (for want of a better term) "blue blobby one" - or is this > somethinf=g to do with disabling the laptop screen with Marko's xrandr > script??? > > Confusion reigns supreme! > It looks like you could have some stability issues. I would try some basic test for your hardware. For example: while true; do md5sum somefilewithdimensionabout50MB; done Are the checksum all the same or do they change? If they change, causes could be: overclocking, bad power supply, bad RAM, bad CPU or software issues (bad kernel, unstable drivers). Try then with a bigger file, so it will have to read the disk. You can try the external disk, so you will test the USB part too. Create a file of 500MB with: dd if=/dev/urandom of=myfile bs=1048576 count=500 (replace 500 with what you want), then checksum it while true; do md5sum myfile; done use a dimension bigger than the RAM you have on your machine, so you defeat the caching that Linux will try to do. Another test could be [create some file called a] cp filea fileb while true; do cmp -l a b;done The idea is do have the machine do a lot of work for which you already know the results. If you get a bad answer (a and b are different??) you know the machine is not working well. -- Roberto Ragusa mail at robertoragusa.it -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
