On Fri, Jul 30, 2004 at 10:05:26PM +0100, richard mullens wrote: > > Charles Curley wrote: > > On Sun, Jul 25, 2004 at 02:25:48PM +0100, richard mullens wrote: > > My system (Duron 850) hangs every night at about 04:30. > System doesn't respond to mouse movement, keystroke, Control alt > anything or PING. > The time in the botton right hand of X display is the same as (or 1 > minute later than) the timestamp of /var/log/prelink. > (Frozen) top shows "makewhatis" and prelink running recently. > Last message in /var/log/prelink always (so far):- > "warning /usr/lib/lib???.so??? has undefined non-weak symbols. > This problem doesn't affect an other machine I have running FC3T1, and > perhaps, tonight, > now that I have shut the case and added an extra fan, it will go away. > However,I'd be interested > to know the purpose of this nightly activity - and the consequences were > I to inhibit it. For what it does, try "info prelink" or "man prleink". As for the conseqences if you disable it, you will probably see slightly longer loading times, if anything. -- Charles Curley /"\ ASCII Ribbon Campaign Looking for fine software \ / Respect for open standards and/or writing? X No HTML/RTF in email http://www.charlescurley.com / \ No M$ Word docs in email Key fingerprint = CE5C 6645 A45A 64E4 94C0 809C FFF6 4C48 4ECD DFDB
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