On Tuesday 18 December 2001 07:55, you wrote: > I shutdown by "right click | logoff | choose Halt" from the KDE desktop. > Problem? don't guess that caused it, but could you also send the output of "cat /proc/pci", and "cat /proc/interrupts" as well as an "ifconfig"? if ya wanna send them to me off list that is ok too, but when we get it figured out, we can post the answer to the list. if you caould send the hosts files for both computers that would be good too, are you running "routed" on either box?
> Having just rebooted I see that I misquoted the message issued at startx - > it's actually something about host name unknown, but it goes by too fast to > see it properly. > Now that the server has been up all day, the client machine is super fast > right from the start. I wonder could it be a process on the server which > eventually gives up / timesout / dies which is causing these long delays? yep or on the client too > Maybe I should set up a periodic "ps aux" command on the server to see if I > can spot a process which fits the bill. could help. > Brian > > On Tuesday 18 December 2001 9:33 pm, you wrote: > > thanks for correcting MY typo.... you were correct. > > > > > Yup - I knew about find files, but I needed the right file name - I > > > guess maybe dmesg is what you meant, not dmseg. Assuming that to be > > > correct, here are the files from both the server and a client machine. > > > > how do you shut down the computer? > > > > > dmesg in the client machine has a lot of: > > > "clm-6006: writing inode 52808 on readonly FS" > > > messages. That doesn't look healthy does it? > > > > maybe a hard drive failure in your future? > > > > > Also noticed after having switched off booting into X, that startx > > > pauses for a while then says "Host name lookup failure". > > > > ahhh.... we are looking at a dns or server problem seems to me.... > > > > > Anyway dmesg files are attached. > > > > ehhh..no.
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