On 10/15/10 7:48 AM, Jim wrote: > Fc13 - 14 / KDE > > I have three users on this box > > root > jim > jan > > 'Jim' user directory is corrupted or virus in it. Check the drive. smartctl and the logs in /var will help. Viruses are rare for Linux and would do more than just cause your system to freeze with one user. > You can be clicking on different windows, apps and the the screen > freezes and no matter what you click on , nothing happens, > in seconds or minutes it unfreezes and you can get back to work. Sounds like a hard drive problem where SMART is moving sectors or you ran out of physical memory and now the system is swapping around mightly (called thrashing) to get what you need to run the program in the foreground. > But !! , the Mouse cursor can be moved around the screen during freeze > time. > Yes. Mouse to screen usually works. Nice feature. Before you go through a lengthy process, take a look at what is happening with the hard drive. If it is being accessed continuously during the freeze period, you might want to consider adding more physical memory, if possible. Also, check your hard drive for errors (soft and hard) with smartctl. BTW, what are you running when this happens? Many large programs running at one time, may cause your system to run out of physical memory and start to use swap. Clicking through several windows will actually make this worse rather than just waiting until the system 'comes back' to you. Let us know what you find. James McKenzie -- 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
