Two days in a row my fc5 computer has frozen soon after I start using it in the morning.
Make it about 80% of the days since I installed fc5.
However, I have more information about the problem. I think I misdiagnosed the problem... it appears that the mouse/keyboard are not completely unresponsive... they're are just responding extremely slowly. I ssh'd into my work computer (the one that is "hanging" every day) from home last night. This morning before I came to work, I tried to do a little work from my ssh session. And it was messed up too! Things were running very slowly.
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My fc5 system hasn't "hung" in 5 days, so I'm hoping that something that I've tried has fixed it.
Arg! It's still messed up. Same weird symptoms. Very slow to log in
I recovered from this state without rebooting this time. I started killing processes and stopping services and finally I did a telinit 3. After all that, the system was responsive again. I killed all of the processes owned by me (so I could stop autofs which automounts my home directory), then I stopped autofs, ypbind, smartd, haldaemon, ???, and then /sbin/telinit 3. I'm not sure exactly when the system became happy again, but I think it was after telinit. I'll try doing only that next time it happens and post the results.
telinit 3 by itself didn't help. Can anybody suggest how to debug this? I've been using redhat/fedora for ~11 years now, but I'm about to jump ship. I'm losing way too much productivity with this bug. :(
Thanks...
David
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