Problems with Fedora 20

[JD]

On Tue, Jul 22, 2014 at 6:58 PM, Roger <arelem at bigpond.com> wrote:

> Couple of things seem to have gone awry.
>
> I think Ubuntu update to 14.04 has messed around with Fedora 20 grub boot
> because booting now  takes for ever and defaults to  Ctrl D to Continue or
> root password for maintenance, then takes 30-50 seconds to boot.
>
> 2nd, With the  latest updates and kernel-3.15.5-200.fc20.x86_64 something
> seems wrong. The machine used to be quite fast but now is very slow.
>  Any processes like opening and deleting emails, screen refresh, opening
> or closing files is very slow and the hard drive is working overtime with
> every mouse click or key press.
> CPUs are running at 20-50%, memory runs at 85%, temp directory is running
> overtime.
>
> Whereas performing the same in ubuntu 14.04, 386 memory runs around 35%,
> cpu's 20-50%, no hard drive temp used at all, and emails open and delete
> immediately.
>
> I have cleaned repositories, removed unused files and software in both
> setups, run sudo yum autoclean, sudo yum clean packages. top shows nothing
> untoward.
>
> I am running 3.15.4-200.fc20.x86_64 for this email and the system seems to
> be better but the hard drive works overtime with each change.
>  kernel-3.14.8-200.fc20.x86_6 produces inode errors and boot fails.
>
> There is a command to rebuild grub boot but I don't remember the details,
> can someone please point me to how this should be done.
> What should I look for as to why the system is not operating as before.
> Help much appreciated
> thanks
> Roger


​Do you see any error reports in /var/log/messages ?​

​Do you see any error reports when running dmesg?
You might want to post those error messages to shed
more light on the problem.​
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