2010/1/12 John Pilkington <J.Pilk at tesco.net>: > Hi: ?I know f10 has gone EOL but I'm still running it until I 'finish' > my parallel install of f12. ?The f10 system has the kde 4.3.3 packages > from f10 updates, and I don't think I saw this problem before they were > installed - but I also recently added a 1TB sdb, upgraded to mythtv 0.22 > and began regular use of ProjectX under java (from Sun). > > Usually things work as expected, but there is a problem. ?The paralysis > usually occurs when both sda and sdb are being accessed, sometimes quite > intensively; things progressively stop working as I switch windows, and > I can't shut down and do a normal reboot because several devices say > they are busy. ?The only way out seems to be to switch off. ?On reboot > everything has, so far, been ok, but dvb recordings that were in > progress aren't properly closed. > > I've always had Konqueror open, with tabs showing the recordings folders > on the two drives, when this has happened. ?Today it was apparently > precipitated by opening the second tab. ?I'm wondering if I've hit a > Konqueror bug, or if I may have a BIOS/sdb mismatch. ?Any ideas? > Perhaps I should try Dolphin again. Could be that you have enabled Nepomuk in System-Settings and it bites you. The Redland backend is aweful slow and freezes Konqueror/Dolphin. But the rest should normally still work. You could as well try to have your HDDs on different controller (guessing they are on the same). -- LG Thomas Dubium sapientiae initium
