system crawling....

[Luis Montes]

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.

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.

Any ideas?


Thanks,

Luis