[Eug-lug] Could some one be so kind as to send me Meeting info

2011-01-27 Thread Harald Sundt
I was the Linux 14 password glitch guy. Someone kindly volunteered to walk me through the steps. Hal h_su...@efn.org -- “the ancient destructive urges in, us, that grow more deadly as our populations approach in size and complexity those of ancient Mars. Every war crisis, witch-hunt, rac

Re: [Eug-lug] slow system

2011-01-27 Thread Horst
Adding a warning to an earlier comment: > The 1 minute average is 2.37 -- but the 5/15 min averages are over 5 !!! > i.e. we may not see the culprit, nor can we tell if swap was maxed out > when the load was over 5. You could get an idea by watching the LED > indicating disk activity (if your box

Re: [Eug-lug] slow system

2011-01-27 Thread M Jarvis
are you asking how to set 'top' to refresh every 5 seconds? that's as printed with: top -d 5 more info here: http://www.kernelhardware.org/linux-top-command/ MJ On Thu, Jan 27, 2011 at 4:01 PM, Joseph Weston Morgan wrote: > Where do you go to slow down the refresh to 5 sec? > top -d 5 > > >

Re: [Eug-lug] slow system

2011-01-27 Thread Joseph Weston Morgan
Where do you go to slow down the refresh to 5 sec? top -d 5 On 01/24/2011 01:17 PM, Horst wrote: > ... >> then start other apps, then firefox with increasing Tabs and demands. > i.e. *before* you reboot, set firefox General to start with a blank page, > not to restore previous Tabs. > > You can

Re: [Eug-lug] I upgraded to Fedora 14 - now my password doesn't work

2011-01-27 Thread Harald Sundt
Brilliant. I apologize for being a decades long Linux end user. in that the meeting is at a private residence could you please e-mail me the directions and time and such. I hope I am not asking too late to receive data. Hal h_su...@efn.org On 1/27/11 9:51 AM, Michael Miller wrote: Haral

Re: [Eug-lug] I upgraded to Fedora 14 - now my password doesn't work

2011-01-27 Thread abrown
In that case, download Ubuntu. It *is* a live CD. You can then follow the instructions below. -- Allen Brown http://brown.armoredpenguin.com/~abrown/ If you're in trouble, or hurt or need - go to the poor people. They're the only ones that'll help - the only ones. --- John Steinbeck -

Re: [Eug-lug] I upgraded to Fedora 14 - now my password doesn't work

2011-01-27 Thread Michael Miller
Harald, If you need a walk though on how to boot your machine into single user mode and changing you're password and root's password. I can walk you though this tonight at LUG. -mmiller On Wed, Jan 26, 2011 at 9:45 PM, Harald Sundt wrote: >  Hey, > > I gave up trying to update my Linux 12 and

Re: [Eug-lug] I upgraded to Fedora 14 - now my password doesn't work

2011-01-27 Thread M Jarvis
Overcoming a forgotten root pw is usually pretty straightforward... I've only had to do it once but it was easy. Basically boot into single user mode w/ a Live CD of some sort, edit a file, reboot. This describes the process: http://linuxgazette.net/107/tomar.html Matt Jarvis Eugene, Oregon USA