fc5 hangs

David L idht4n at hotmail.com
Sat Jun 3 20:45:32 UTC 2006


>>Two days in a row my fc5 computer has frozen soon after I start using it 
>>in the morning.
Make it about 80% of the days since I installed fc5.

>>
>>>However, I have more information about the problem.  I think I 
>>>misdiagnosed the problem...
>>>it appears that the mouse/keyboard are not completely unresponsive... 
>>>they're are just
>>>responding extremely slowly.  I ssh'd into my work computer (the one that 
>>>is "hanging"
>>>every day) from home last night.  This morning before I came to work, I 
>>>tried to do a little
>>>work from my ssh session.  And it was messed up too!  Things were running 
>>>very slowly.
>>>
>>>[snip]
>>>
>>>My fc5 system hasn't "hung" in 5 days, so I'm hoping that something
>>>that I've tried has fixed it.
>>
>>Arg!  It's still messed up.  Same weird symptoms.  Very slow to log in
>
>I recovered from this state without rebooting this time.  I
>started killing processes and stopping services and finally
>I did a telinit 3.   After all that, the system was responsive
>again.  I killed all of the processes owned by me (so I could
>stop autofs which automounts my home directory), then I
>stopped autofs, ypbind, smartd, haldaemon, ???, and then
>/sbin/telinit 3.  I'm not sure exactly when the system became
>happy again, but I think it was after telinit.  I'll try doing only
>that next time it happens and post the results.

telinit 3 by itself didn't help.  Can anybody suggest how to
debug this?  I've been using redhat/fedora for ~11 years now,
but I'm about to jump ship.  I'm losing way too much productivity
with this bug.  :(

Thanks...

                  David

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