Actually, it was the monitor. I'd forgotten that Ubuntu requires one because I certainly do not. Now I have to figure out why it won't connect to the wifi. Amanda On 11/13/16, Henry Yen <blinux-mail@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > If you've physically moved your computer, you might've caused damage to > the hard drive if the move was very rough. A hard drive that is throwing > errors will cause the machine to slow and/or freeze. If you have the > "smartctl" program installed, you can usually make a cursory check of > the drive's health (it's part of the "smartmontools" package). > > Perhaps more likely, is that any number of processes on the computer > are trying to talk to the internet; if your computer isn't hooked up > to the net yet, then a very common cause of slowdowns would be the > loooong delay looking up domain names (e.g. "where on the internet is > google.com right now"?) -- the delay is caused by waiting (in vain) for > the lookup to complete, and not actually the process giving up when > linux eventually replies to the requesting process with "sorry, > you can't get there from here". > > On Sat, Nov 12, 2016 at 01:20:06AM -0600, Amanda Lacy wrote: >> My new location offers wifi but my Linux machine isn't on it yet. I >> just booted into it for the first time since the move. I had no chance >> to even access the wifi settings before it froze up. Since it's not >> hooked to anything, what else could it be? > > _______________________________________________ > Blinux-list mailing list > Blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list > _______________________________________________ Blinux-list mailing list Blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list