On 03/09/2011 07:06 PM, mlmack wrote:
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> su panel inconsistant
what does that mean, precisely and exactly.
that is:
- what is an “su panel”?
- it is inconsistant with what?
> log in manager wonky, etc.
in what way is the long in manager ‘wonky’?
precisely!
that is:
- what do you see which you don’t expect, or
- what do you not see that you do expect?
>
> memtest86 v4.00 OK walltime 12:06:21
> cache 0n
> ECC off
> test std
> pass 15
> errors 0
if you made 15 passes of memtest in the 12 hours minimum which i
prescribed, them you must have abour 300 GB of ram…is this a
supercomputer you have with that much RAM??
> Should I run smartctl? If so, what options?
has anyone here recommended that to you?
do you anticipate you have a drive problem?
>
> Nervous and ignorant about updating bios. If available. Should add that
> fsck / is ok.
who asked for an fsck check?
if you want our help you need to answer the questions we ask, and
perform the test we ask you to…so far that has not been the case…
> The only other thing left is the mother board. How to test?
no, there are lots of things other than the motherboard…personally
i think it a lot more likely an administration problem…
what happens if you boot from the live CD? do things appear ‘normal’
then…if so, you do probably do not have a motherboard or hardware
problem…
tell, me: how many times have you logged into KDE or Gnome as root?
and what did you do are root then?
and answer this question which i asked before: “was your system as you
describe it from the very first boot after install? or could you log
in as yourself a while and then suddenly things changed?”
oh, and is this a dual boot machine? what other system is on it?
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