Since my last mail, I rebooted the machine (using reset, init 6
wasn't able to reboot after a few minutes).
Just before reseting, top was long to start displaying stats and then
it started to work nice (normal speed) and showed 9999% CPU usage on
certain processes !
It was not often the case, some stats snaps looked good.
Well, that at least explains why the machine was/is slow. Killing
these processes might help.
I thought it was a calculation error because the timing became wrong
(delta=51799116882ns), isn't it...?
Then, I had troubles when I logged into KDE: it first failed (kind of
freeze while waiting for something that never comes), I restarted X
(ctrl+alt+backspace) and then KDE login was ok.
In KDE, I now see that the audio hardware is no more recognized
(according to kmix & amarok/xine (failed to start xine engine)), but
snd* modules seems to be loaded as appropriate...
Strange, although a /etc/init.d/alsa-utils restart sometimes works, or
realoding the sound modules. Then, you probably also have to restart kdm
I did this:
# /etc/init.d/alsa-utils restart && /etc/init.d/kdm restart
It didn't have any effects on the audio hardware in KDE.
I also launched a memtest (a few minutes) after reseting the computer:
nothing wrong.
I wonder about a hardware failure...
This Debian was installed a month ago and I didn't any problem
before, even on the Fedora I had before for a year on this hardware.
That can of course be. Try running memcheck, and try booting from a
live-cd might give you some clues.
Yeah, that's an idea... with a fresh Knoppix CD!
Thanks,
N.
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