Another half hour down, and no visible change. I'm going to have to nuke it.
What should I do?
Douglas Royds wrote:
Not installed, unfortunately, and my apt system seems to be rather busy.
Brad Beveridge wrote:
gkrellm will give you a nice graph of eth0 usage.
Douglas Royds wrote:
I decided to bite the bullet and upgrade to Gnome 2.8. Everything has downloaded fine, and it has started configuring things.
Right now my machine has been sitting there stating that it is "*** loading the extensions datasource" for about the last half hour (on broadband), and I'm getting twitchy. Synaptic gives me no bale-out option. Google suggests that the extensions datasource in question might be to do with Mozilla or Firefox (probably the former, as Gnome "requires" Mozilla).
What to do? Nuke it? How? There seem to be two Synaptic processes running, plus an apt-listchanges process. Also, would this leave things half configured (i.e. broken)?
Is there an easy way to see whether it's sucking Mb of stuff off the net at the moment?
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