Re: fc5 hangs

[Ric Moore]

On Sun, 2006-05-28 at 08:16 -0700, David L wrote:

>  >>>>>Two days in a row my fc5 computer has frozen soon
> after I start using 
>  >>>>>it in the morning.
>  
>  [snip]
>  
>  >>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.
>  
>  [snip]
>  
>  My fc5 system hasn't "hung" in 5 days, so I'm hoping that something
>  that I've tried has fixed it.  Still too soon to tell for sure I guess, but 
>  here's
>  what I've tried:
>  
>  yum -y update
>  (It was already up to date as of about 10 days ago, but I updated again).
>  
>  Disabled the following services:
>  acpid
>  apmd
>  avahi-daemon
>  bluetooth
>  cpuspeed
>  hidd
>  irqbalance
>  isdn
>  
>  Removed the following from cron.daily:
>  prelink
>  beagle-crawl-system
>  
>  I'm hoping that one of these things fixed the problem. 
Yeah,  Beagle started eating up CPU this morning. It practically stopped
my system cold. <Sigh> Ric