Re: Gnome desktop almost totally unresponsive in Jessie

["James H. H. Lampert" <jamesl@touchtonecorp.com>]

On 11/8/17, 10:55 AM, Roberto C. Sánchez wrote:
> > The output of 'ps aux', 'iostat', and 'free -m' would help identify the
> problem.  Also, 'cat /proc/mdstat' if you have a RAID setup.
. . .

After a mostly-off-List discussion with Mr. Sanchez, I gave up and did a 
"shutdown -r" on the system.

After a re-IPL, Gnome was back to gnormal, and everything else was back 
up as well.

It's not like it's an AS/400, or even a state-of-the-art Linux box, 
that's designed to run for years at a time without an IPL -- it's an old 
Dell PowerEdge 400SC.

And I'd forgotten: it DOES have RAID: a hardware RAID controller with 
two mirrored pairs on it.

No sign of damage to the mirrored pairs, but a full cold-start might be 
necessary to be sure of that, if not an actual controller-level diagnostic.

--
JHHL