After PA shell crash, booting takes a long time

[David Talmage]

On Saturday, November 03, 2012 02:40:26 PM Lamarque V. Souza wrote:
> Em Saturday 03 November 2012, David Talmage escreveu:
> > On Saturday, November 03, 2012 01:25:29 AM Lamarque V. Souza wrote:
> > > Em Friday 02 November 2012, David Talmage escreveu:
> > > > I need help figuring this out.  My PA3 WeTab now takes 15 minutes to
> > > > boot to a usable state.  Even then, it's not as responive as it used
> > > > to be. ...
> > > > What can I do to debug this?  Should I forget about it and reinstall
> > > > PA3?
> > > 	
> > > 	Send us the ~/.xsession-errors files and the crashlog if you still 
have
> > > 
> > > it.
> > > ...
> > 
> > I don't have ~/.xsession-errors.  I created an empty one and rebooted. 
> > The
> > file is still empty.
> > 
> > Would it help if I sent you /tmp/startactive-mer.log?
> 
> 	Not much, startactive-mer.log is only about starting up the KDE session.
> Once the session is up and running nothing really usefull goes to that log.
> ~/.xsession-errors is where the interesting stuff goes, I do not understand
> why it does not exist in your tablet.

I gave up and reinstlled PA3 from the release ISO.  Then I installed all the 
updates that Wolfgang Romey <hier at wolfgangromey.de> mentioned two days ago.

I was able to back up the important files from my home directory to a USB hard 
drive, so I didn't lose anything except  accounts & passwords and activity 
configurations.  If you back up to a FAT32 file system, don't forget, as I did, 
that FAT32 has a small file size limit.  The 5.9 GB tarball of my home 
directory was too big for FAT32.

Things were so messed up on my WeTab that I had to mount the drive using 
'mount'.

Dave