Hi, On Wed, 01 Oct 2008, Luis Montes wrote:
> I have a school that's been down now for 2 days. It's an 8.04 edubuntu > setup. Single server (8 core, 16 GB ram, 32 bit server kernel). Just > using local user accounts and homes. > > The thing is taking a couple of minutes to authenticate. I just spent a > day getting the server passed "starting gnome display manager" by > switching to the frame buffer for X. Is it always the same amount of time or does it seem like you're waiting for a busy system to respond? > Now, even on the server itself it takes a very long time authenticate, > and even sudo times out. > > Something must have changed on an update. We can't go another week of > having the whole school down. Can you login to the text terminal on the server (press <Ctrl><alt><F1>) and run the commands "uptime" and free and send us the output. Is the disk light on the machine flashing a lot? If you run "top", are there programs hogging the cpu? Gavin -- edubuntu-users mailing list [email protected] Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/edubuntu-users
