Super-slow response, not quite dead

[Tim Rutherford]

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.

Re-boot and re-install (revert to) 4.01 Preview.

Anyone else see anything like this? I believe I was getting the same
result with Daily 20040927 FWIW.

Cheers,
Tim



On Wed, 29 Sep 2004 21:33:15 -0400, Tim Rutherford
<rutherfordt at gmail.com> wrote:
> BTW
> ASUS P4P800 and P4 2.6 w/ 1GB
> - internal 3Com Gigabit LAN (3C940) is on eth0 & seems working
> Maxtor 6Y080L0 ATA 80GB
> Radeon 9200 SE
> more?
> 
> Thx, T
> 
> 
> 
> 
> On Wed, 29 Sep 2004 21:25:10 -0400, Tim Rutherford
> <rutherfordt at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Problem first presented when I installed a daily from 27/28 Sep. I
> > thought my system was freezing before (or aternately, just after) the
> > initial Ubuntu "human" spash-screen displayed.
> > Tonight I've dl'd and installed Souner 9 hoping for an improvement.
> > Thought I saw the same thing; left Ubuntu running and booted my laptop
> > to send this message. When I came back >10 min later the gray 'ubuntu'
> > desktop was visible with two blank menu/taskbars showing. Over the
> > next (quite a few) minutes these two began to populate. It's like
> > watching plants grow; the change is there but too slow to see.
> >
> > Now some operations (e.g. menu selection) happen in normal time-frame,
> > and others (e.g. effect of menu selection, open or close a window)
> > take a v-e-r-y l-o-n-g time.
> >
> > I have other issues: can't save to diskette, USB-drive or outside the
> > Linux /home directory and can't access internet. Thank goodness for a
> > laptop (and windoze I suppose).
> > * Ethernet LAN card is active (set manually during install, DHCP not
> > working well 4me)
> > * cannot see internet, cannot see router web interface,
> > * ping [my ubuntu machine] response in 0.023 ms but
> > * ping [this laptop OR router connecting both] = unknown or unreachable
> >
> > I will report either or both of these in bugzilla if that's
> > appropriate. I have dmesg text saved - anybody have suggestions?
> >
> > TIA
> > Tim
> >

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