On Wed, Aug 13, 2008 at 04:28:11PM -0400, Ken Heard wrote: > One of these computers is a desktop. From a cold boot it appears to > load the operating system without incident -- as far as I can tell -- > right to the kdm login manager. Once a user name and password are > entered it loads KDE in about 5-10 seconds. [snip] Can I suggest break down you problem into smaller pieces, start up you box in single user mode and slowly start services one at a time till you can work out what is causing the thrashing ! also you might want to look at magic key combo, sysreq it can help in times like this. Another trick have a ssh session open on the machine from another box so you have a command line available to diagnose the problem. It could be that the thrashing could be something as silly as a updatedb running each day ? A > So now I am in a situation where I can (usually) run both computers > after by brute force I can get them to stop thrashing. I would like > however to be able to stop the thrashing before it starts. I would also > like to be able to upgrade and load new packages on the desktop. > > Regards, Ken Heard > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-REQUEST@lists.debian.org with a > subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmaster@lists.debian.org > > -- ..you could spend *all day* customizing the title bar. Believe me. I speak from experience." (By Matt Welsh)
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