After PA shell crash, booting takes a long time

[Lamarque V. Souza]

Em Monday 05 November 2012, David Talmage escreveu:
> 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.

	Did you compact your tarball backup? 5.9 GB of compacted data is a lot 
of thing.
 
> Things were so messed up on my WeTab that I had to mount the drive using
> 'mount'.

	It's a pitty you were not able to save a log of what went wrong. More 
and more I think it was a filesystem corruption.

-- 
Lamarque V. Souza
Software Engineer (basyskom.com)
Nokia Certified Qt Specialist
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