[Cialug] Ubuntu Laptop

[Daniel A. Ramaley]

Oops. Sorry for the noise.

On 2010-04-14 at 10:49:22, Josh More wrote:
>I cleared the "stuck mail" queue on the LUG list today, so you may see
> a bunch of old messages popping through.  Sorry it took me a while to
> get to this.

On 2010-04-14 at 13:42:02, Daniel A. Ramaley wrote:
>On 2009-12-18 at 23:38:31, Terry A. Haimann wrote:
>>My wifes Ubuntu laptop has become very slow to boot.  I also see that
>> I canno longer ssh into it.  I have copied the dmesg output, I hope
>> it helps.
>
>And???
>
>There's no question in there. Assuming you want help with the slowness
>and SSH issues, some more detail would be useful. What version of
>Ubuntu? What (if anything) has changed recently? Were some updates
>applied around the time the slowness started? During boot is there any
>specific step that takes a long time? Boot taking awhile and SSH being
>unavailable (with no other information) sounds like it *could* be a
>network problem... did you recently configure a software firewall? Can
>you ping other machines from the laptop? Can other machines ping the
>laptop? Does web browsing or other network traffic work correctly?

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Daniel A. Ramaley
Network Engineer 2

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