I've had that happen when I couldn't do a clean re-boot. Once it comes up enough
to [ctrl][alt][f2] then [ctrl][alt][del] to shut down & re-boot normally
everything is OK.
I wish I knew what causes it so I could fix it.
Or better, how can I boot into the 'user' screen, where you pick a user and
GUI instead of into Gnome or KDE?
Don
>On Sunday 21 January 2001 16:27, you wrote:
>> It started yesterday, after there was a power failure.
>>
>> Its a dual PIII - 600 with 1/2 gb SDRAM and dual UW SCSI with dual UW 5.4
>> ms Barracuda drives. The video is a Creative Labs Savage4 with 32 mb.
>>
>> Nooooooooo, it can't be slow!!! Without running X its horribly slow.
>> With X, its unbelievably slow.
>>
>> Without X, if I bring up pine, its 2 MINUTES for the screen to come up!!!
>> startx takes 10 MINUTES to come up. The tips wizard is 15 MINUTES later.
>>
>> The drives are barely being hit. The NIC isn't flashing. There are no
>> error messages on the screens except the 2nd NIC failing at boot (which I
>> expect, until I connect it to the cable modem, in the meantime, its just
a
>> station on my internal home LAN). It seems like pine runs at normal speed
>> (comparatively) once its up. pico seems to come up fine by itself.
>>
>> Am I at another reload? Any suggestions how to diagnose? I shut it down,
>> powered back up, and when that didn't fix it, I rebooted and ran full tests
>> on the drives, checked the BIOS setup. Then I tried windoze 98 and it runs
>> fine. Shutdown is quick, too, for some reason...
>>
>> Help!
>>
>> BobC
>
>Well, you might want to try top or ktop to see the process that is hogging
>the cpu, but most likely it will be less trouble to reload the system (as in
>reinstall). Something got clobbered (we hope it isn't hardware) which other
>processes are waiting for completion of.....
>
>Civileme
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