Have I got an AT hangover?

Stephen Gallagher sgallagh at redhat.com
Tue Oct 23 14:14:43 UTC 2012


On Tue 23 Oct 2012 10:03:28 AM EDT, Joe Feely wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Videos (e.g. 350MB avi file of 40 minutes playback) don't play properly,
> goes out of sync, momentary stops (they play ok on laptop, so not
> corrupted).
> The problem seems to have started after I enabled some assistive
> technology, which nearly paralysed the performance of the computer.
> After disabling and deleting the assistive stuff (su -c "yum remove
> at-spi*") the computer is still performing somewhat poorly, not being
> able to do as much stuff as before and being generally much slower
> (notably when opening multiple web pages, e.g. several weather reports,
> about 10 tabs).
>
> I assumed that there could be something that is still kicking in and
> slowing the system down.
>
> Sorry to be so vague, but I don't recall any better what I did.
> I'm running Fedora 16, GNOME 3.2.1 is installed but I use XFCE, Kernel
> Linux 3.4.11-1.fc16.i686.PAE, RAM 1.2GB, Processor Intel Celeron CPU
> 2.4GHz, Available disk space 84GB.
> My computer is about 7 years old.
>
> I could reinstall the system, and I'm confident that would remove this
> problem, but I would much prefer to find the problem, and fix it.
>
> I have looked at some top output, but don't notice anything relevant (if
> anyone wants to see any of such, let me know what to do to get useful
> output).
>
> Any suggestions where I could start or what to look for would be welcome.
>

Try checking /etc/yum.log to see what else was pulled in at the same 
time as the at-spi* pieces. Possibly one of its dependencies with 
another name is hanging around causing you problems.


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