On Fri, Apr 16, 2010 at 6:48 PM, Bruno Wolff III <bruno@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Fri, Apr 16, 2010 at 12:52:28 +0200, > Natxo Asenjo <natxo.asenjo@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> >> There is one little problem. Every now and then when I boot the laptop >> it kind of 'freezes' and a few minutes later it works as it should >> without any other problems. I can change to a virtual terminal and >> login there, but if I try to login graphically it will take me like 2 >> to 3 minutes to complete the process. I cannot see anything in the log >> files. > > You might want to check you disk drives using smartctl (in the smartmontools > package). If you have some bad blocks, they could cause probelms. I thought about that :) ; according to pamlipsest the disk is healthy and has passed all tests. > On that time interval I would suspect either dns timeouts or lots of disk > activity as what you are waiting on. the dns setup both at home as at work is solid (I'm a sysadmin, so yes, I know). I fail to see how dns should have local graphical logins slow down randomly, to be honest. Could you care to ellaborate? As to disk i/o, nope, it's nearly non-existent. I can logon a vt and start top and the system is idle. Any other ideas? tia, -- natxo -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
