I have installed Debian 5.0.4 (lenny) from the CD ISO (disk 1) onto a slightly older Dell desktop box, (2.8Ghz, 1GB ram, 2GB swap.)
Something is causing it to hang and I'm not Linux savvy enough to know where to begin troubleshooting. It takes forever and ever to load GNOME, and during that it gives me the following error:
I can get the system monitor to eventually come up, and it tells me the CPU is maxed out. When I view the processes the only one it shows as using the CPU is the system monitor itself, which is using about 50%. All other processes are sleeping. (I can use 'ps' from a root console but I don't really know how to interpret what I am seeing there.)
This started on a fresh install on a machine that had never been connected to the network. It seems to run fine in single user mode, so I have since used that to connect it to the network and run apt-get update, which ran fine but has done nothing to solve my problem.
Any advice on troubleshooting this? Should I remove GNOME and try a different GUI? Can I start bringing up processes one at a time in single user mode until I figure out which one is causing the problem? If so, how would I do that?
Any advice would be appreciated, tia.
Something is causing it to hang and I'm not Linux savvy enough to know where to begin troubleshooting. It takes forever and ever to load GNOME, and during that it gives me the following error:
Code:
There was an error starting the GNOME Settings Daemon
Some things such as themes, sounds or background settings
may not work correctly.
The last error message was:
Did not receive a reply. Possible causes include: The remote
application did not send a reply, the message bus security
policy blocked the reply, the reply timeout expired, or the
network connection was broken.
GNOME will still try to restart the Settings Daemon next
time you log in.I can get the system monitor to eventually come up, and it tells me the CPU is maxed out. When I view the processes the only one it shows as using the CPU is the system monitor itself, which is using about 50%. All other processes are sleeping. (I can use 'ps' from a root console but I don't really know how to interpret what I am seeing there.)
This started on a fresh install on a machine that had never been connected to the network. It seems to run fine in single user mode, so I have since used that to connect it to the network and run apt-get update, which ran fine but has done nothing to solve my problem.
Any advice on troubleshooting this? Should I remove GNOME and try a different GUI? Can I start bringing up processes one at a time in single user mode until I figure out which one is causing the problem? If so, how would I do that?
Any advice would be appreciated, tia.