Super-slow response, not quite dead

[Tim Rutherford]

Matt asked if there was hard-disk activity during the long waits:

not generally, the disk access light was mostly off. 

I've reverted to Preview on that machine, but I'm willing to
re-install Sounder 9 for some specific tests if anyone can think of
some. I see (from Oliver Grawert, later in thread) a suggestion to
look at "cat /proc/cpuinfo" would show. Is that worth trying? Is there
anything more? (for the time to re-install plus 1/2 hour for the menu
<G>).

Curious cat here,
Tim


On Wed, 29 Sep 2004 21:45:34 -0700, Matt Zimmerman <mdz at canonical.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 29, 2004 at 11:37:44PM -0400, Tim Rutherford wrote:
> 
> > Tried a reboot, to see if this was a problem on first start only.
> > Checked timing as follows (I need to get a life!)
> > 22 minutes with just the tan-Human ubuntu splash-mat showing and then
> > very suddenly it moved through the various icons across the bottom to
> > the gray screen w/ ubuntu
> > +2 minutes and the "show desktop" icon in lower-left pops in; within
> > seconds upper-left and lower-right icons are also on the
> > menubar/taskbar
> > +1 minute and the clock shows up
> >
> > 25 minutes after boot and I still have a long wait to get action from
> > the menu selection.
> 
> Very strange.  Is there any hard disk activity while it is in this state?
> Is it slow during the entire boot process, when the login screen comes up,
> or only after you login?
> 
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