fc5 hangs

[David L]

>Two days in a row my fc5 computer has frozen soon after I start using it in 
>the morning.
>[snip]
>
>>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.

           David

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