Some basic tools to learn to find the problem (man pages for each but search for tutorials):
journalctl dmesg top Then an interesting article I recently ran across: http://debloper.blogspot.com/2013/12/optimizing-fedora-startup-performance.html Have fun! On Wed, Sep 3, 2014 at 6:51 AM, Walter Cazzola <cazz...@di.unimi.it> wrote: > Dear Fedora Experts, > I've a Dell Precision m6500 with i7 and 1GB NVIDIA FX3800M and it is > running a Fedora 20 since it was distributed without any trouble. > > Two days ago I have updated my system through yum and since then KDE is > really slow to start (Today it tooks 8 minutes to be usable again) and > sometimes becomes unresponsive for a while. > > The period of freezing coincide with some HD activities (or at least > with the HD indicator light turned on without blinking (or blinking so > fast that I can't discern it). I've tried to see with top if I have some > suspect process running but everything is as usual. > > Also the KDE session the system restores is pretty naïve with a couple > of konsoles, an instance of firefox and a couple of okulars open. > Nothing that, in my view, can justify the change. > > I've tried to undo the last update but yum fails in that due to a > dependency issue. Both Baloo and Akonadi indexing service are turned > off. Also googling around didn't suggest me new ideas about how to fix > the problem > > My next try it would be to use the nvidia drivers instead of nouveau but > before selling my soul to the evil ;-) I'd prefer to ask for help. > > Any suggestion? Any known bug I'm run into? > > Thank you in adavance for your help > Walter > -- > -- > users mailing list > users@lists.fedoraproject.org > To unsubscribe or change subscription options: > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users > Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct > Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines > Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org >
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