Gentoo Archives: gentoo-desktop

From: Lindsay Haisley <fmouse-gentoo@×××.com>
To: gentoo-desktop@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-desktop] Desktop nearly unbootable!! Need HELP!!
Date: Fri, 09 Jun 2006 03:52:14
Message-Id: 20060609034854.GA11320@fmp.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-desktop] Desktop nearly unbootable!! Need HELP!! by Lindsay Haisley
1 Seems that I'm not the only one with this problem. There are several fixes
2 which collectively seem to put things back to normal. See
3 http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=99564
4
5 This is really nasty. Had it happened on one of my servers, one of which runs
6 gentoo, it would have cost me customers!
7
8 Thus spake Lindsay Haisley on Thu, Jun 08, 2006 at 09:09:01PM CDT
9 > I just did an emerge -uD world and now have an almost unusable desktop, so
10 > my small business on which I depend is out of business until I get this
11 > fixed!
12 >
13 > I started the emerge and went out for a while and when I came back
14 > (mozilla-thunderbird was building, package 21 of about 48) I noted that
15 > things were running _VERY_ slowly. Some commands executed quickly, but
16 > some, such a 'sudo su - root' took several minutes to execute. The emerge
17 > of Thunderbird was taking so long that I aborted it and rebooted the system.
18
19 --
20 Lindsay Haisley | "Fighting against human | PGP public key
21 FMP Computer Services | creativity is like | available at
22 512-259-1190 | trying to eradicate | <http://pubkeys.fmp.com>
23 http://www.fmp.com | dandelions" |
24 | (Pamela Jones) |
25 --
26 gentoo-desktop@g.o mailing list

Replies

Subject Author
Re: [gentoo-desktop] Desktop nearly unbootable!! Need HELP!! "Rémi Cardona" <remi2402@××××.fr>