On Tue, 24 Feb 2009 18:42:53 -0500 Sam Varshavchik wrote:
I'm getting some strange things happening on F10 lately. In a terminal session if I "ps -ef" or "w" or "ls" or anything of that nature the command runs (sometimes) but never returns the prompt...
Stuff like that usually indicates a kernel bug. Try rolling back to an earlier kernel, and see if it helps.
Or a hardware bug. I always try things like running memtest86+ and examining logs for disk errors or SMART messages, or use smartctl to run tests on the disk.
I recently solved a completely frozen system problem by changing sata cables and switching to a different sata port (so don't neglect checking the simple stuff either).