Check if you're running out of memory (free), disk space (df) or if something is hogging the CPU (top).
If that all looks OK, try shutting down KDE and renaming ~/.kde to something else, which will make it treat you as a brand-new user. -- Rod http://www.sunsetsystems.com/ On Sunday 08 December 2002 08:28 am, Richard S. Crawford wrote: > I came back from a week-long business trip in Santa Barbara to find that > my RH7.2 box is acting kinda weird. Normally, I leave it up and running > when I'm gone, since I feel comfortable with my firewall setup* and so I > can log in and move some files around in case I decide to work on a > story while on the road. When I came back, I logged into my computer to > find the following... > > 1. KDE is broken. Or something. In the taskbar, the icons for running > programs no longer display the name of the program, if that makes sense. > > 2. More seriously, I can't access anything from the KDE menu. When I > try clicking on the menu icon, KDE slows down glacially for several > minutes before I can start using anything again. And the menu never > shows up. The same thing happens if I try right-clicking on the desktop. > > 3. Sometimes, KDE just freezes. Kaput. I'm used to this sort of thing > from Windows, but my Linux box has been nice and stable ever since I > replaced my hard drive. But this morning I stepped away from my > computer to get some breakfast, and came back to find that my > screensaver was paused, and nothing I could do -- whether moving the > mouse or clicking the mouse or typing on the keyboard -- could get > things going again. > > I'd love to upgrade to KDE 3.01 but haven't a clue how to go about doing > that (I admit, I still consider myself a newbie); GNOME 2.0 is > unreliable on my computer; and I'm not sure how to reinstall from my > source disks without zarking LILO. > > I can fix most of the problems on my computer without any serious issues > (getting MySQL to play with PHP and Apache on my box was a challenge, > but fun!) but X and window managers, while I like using them, have me > flummoxed. > > Anyone have any suggestions? > > Richard > > > * For what it's worth, I've poked around on my system as much as I can > and I can't find any evidence that my system was hacked into while I was > gone; and that was the explanation I'd come up with for why my system > started acting so weird while I was gone. That, and hard drive issues. > Which is not a possibility I'm willing to entertain just yet if I can > at all avoid it. _______________________________________________ vox-tech mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech
