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Fedora Core 2 becoming slow on booting and when running

My PC, running FC 2, was working fine this morning, but for some reason, when I tried to use it this evening, it's managed to screw up rather effectively. I have a copy of XP on another partition, and that's fine, so it's FC that's going wrong, not hardware. I didn't do anything other than check my mail this morning, so nothing got installed or tampered with as far as I'm aware. It all seems very spontaneous.:scratch:

The first problem was during the booting sequence - sendmail and ntpd were very, very slow to start. After turning these off, via the system settings, it load a little faster, but the second lot of problems I've found are still present.

These secondary problems are when KDE starts up. There's a longer wait than normal for the login screen to appear. KDE loads fine according to the splash screen, until the splash message "loading the panel" appears - this takes much longer to load than it should.

Once I'm finally in to KDE (as any user, btw), programs take along time to load up, and the internet seems to be slower than normal, especially when it comes to graphics.

I've no idea what's going on here, and I've googled to try find others who've had a similar problem, but with no luck. I'm a bit of a n00b, so any thoughts on how to fix my machine would be helpful - otherwise I'm either going to have to re-install the damn thing, or throw it out of the window. :rolleyes:

Thanks in advance.

Have you checked for unusual processes running?

Might be useful to give us the output of "ps -A"

Regards,

Samsara

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Originally posted by Samsara
Have you checked for unusual processes running?

Might be useful to give us the output of "ps -A"

Regards,

Samsara

I checked that earlier, but there's nothing out of the ordinary, as far as I can see - but maybe I'm wrong:

Code:

PID TTY          TIME CMD

    1 ?        00:00:05 init

    2 ?        00:00:00 ksoftirqd/0

    3 ?        00:00:00 events/0

    4 ?        00:00:00 kblockd/0

    6 ?        00:00:00 khelper

    5 ?        00:00:00 khubd

    7 ?        00:00:00 pdflush

    8 ?        00:00:00 pdflush

  10 ?        00:00:00 aio/0

    9 ?        00:00:00 kswapd0

  117 ?        00:00:00 kseriod

  156 ?        00:00:00 kjournald

 1561 ?        00:00:00 dhclient

 1609 ?        00:00:00 syslogd

 1613 ?        00:00:00 klogd

 1634 ?        00:00:00 portmap

 1654 ?        00:00:00 rpc.statd

 1682 ?        00:00:00 rpc.idmapd

 1776 ?        00:00:00 smartd

 1786 ?        00:00:00 acpid

 1798 ?        00:00:00 cupsd

 1987 ?        00:00:00 sshd

 2002 ?        00:00:00 xinetd

 2012 ?        00:00:00 gpm

 2042 ?        00:00:00 htt

 2043 ?        00:00:00 htt_server

 2054 ?        00:00:00 cannaserver

 2067 ?        00:00:00 crond

 2079 ?        00:00:00 jserver

 2104 ?        00:00:01 xfs

 2123 ?        00:00:00 atd

 2142 ?        00:00:00 dbus-daemon-1

 2158 ?        00:00:00 mdadm

 2180 tty1    00:00:00 mingetty

 2182 tty2    00:00:00 mingetty

 2183 tty3    00:00:00 mingetty

 2184 tty4    00:00:00 mingetty

 2185 tty5    00:00:00 mingetty

 2186 tty6    00:00:00 mingetty

 2187 ?        00:00:00 gdm-binary

 2407 ?        00:00:00 gdm-binary

 2418 ?        00:01:46 X

 2448 ?        00:00:00 startkde

 2498 ?        00:00:00 ssh-agent

 2534 ?        00:00:00 kdeinit

 2537 ?        00:00:00 kdeinit

 2539 ?        00:00:00 kdeinit

 2542 ?        00:00:00 kdeinit

 2543 ?        00:00:00 fam

 2562 ?        00:00:01 artsd

 2632 ?        00:00:00 kdeinit

 2636 ?        00:00:00 kwrapper

 2638 ?        00:00:00 kdeinit

 2639 ?        00:00:03 kdeinit

 2641 ?        00:00:02 kdeinit

 2643 ?        00:00:09 kdeinit

 2644 ?        00:00:00 kdeinit

 2645 ?        00:00:05 autorun

 2649 ?        00:02:13 mozilla-bin

 2678 ?        00:00:00 gconfd-2

 2685 ?        00:00:00 kdeinit

 2688 ?        00:00:00 kdeinit

 2690 ?        00:00:00 kdeinit

 2691 ?        00:00:00 kgpg

 2702 ?        00:00:00 pam-panel-icon

 2705 ?        00:00:01 kdeinit

 2706 ?        00:00:00 evolution-alarm

 2714 ?        00:00:00 pam_timestamp_c

 2715 ?        00:00:00 kdeinit

 2717 ?        00:00:00 bonobo-activati

22577 ?        00:00:06 kdeinit

22582 ?        00:00:03 kdeinit

22583 ?        00:00:03 kdeinit

22599 ?        00:00:00 kdeinit

22600 pts/4    00:00:00 bash

22619 pts/4    00:00:00 ps

I had the same problem. I looked at my disk space and it started filling up very quickly.
I rebooted and found the swap partition had went away.

All I can figure is that FC2 lost the swap file and started building one in my main partition.

Now, I have to figure out how to rebuild the swap partition. I tried e2fsck to copy the superblock but subsequent copies at 8193, 16385 and 24577 didn't work.

You might look at your disk space and make sure your partitions are cool.

As far as I can tell, the swap's working fine. The system knows it's there. What's the best way to check it's acting as it should?

Also, for some reason "System Monitor" has decided to disappear from my taskbar menu - strange, since I used it yesterday and that was it's location.

Giant_Robot : I got the same problem as you. I have a Fedora Core 2 on a laptop. Everything in the configuration seems to be good, but the login screen take a very long, long time to appear. When I get into KDE every application take again a long, long time to start. I got this problem since yesterday, when my laptop went off because of the lackness of electrical energy. Maybe the problem is due to a X11/Xorg corrupted configuration file? (sorry for my english, I hope you all can understand).