Slow 12.04

[Bob Jonkman]

Rather than gparted I would use the gnome-disk-utility (which might now
be called just "disk", and was formerly called "palimpsest"). It'll give
you the SMART info from the drive, and has a diagnostic tool.  I don't
know if that invokes a diagnostic in the IDE firmware or if it's coded
in the gnome-disk-utility software.

Anyway, the result will tell you if the drive has experienced failures,
and if it is expected to fail soon.

--Bob.

On 2012-10-29 21:25, William Frick wrote:
> I would definitely look at your hard drive with gparted.  If the
> drive has SMART capability and enabled you may see the problem
> reported there.  I had a second drive causing just those very
> problems even when the system booted from the replacement.  GRUB
> would see older versions there and try to read or verify.
> 
> 
> Bill
> 
> 
> ________________________________ From: David Oxland
> <doxland at shaw.ca> To: ubuntu-ca at lists.ubuntu.com Sent: Monday,
> October 29, 2012 7:47:49 PM Subject: Slow 12.04
> 
> 
> Don't know what's going on with my machine in the last few weeks. 
> -It's taking a long time to boot up.(for grub to load and for system
> itself to load. -Evolution seems to hang or lock up occasionally.
> (Greys out the screen) The copy paste below for instance took 20sec
> to actually happen. -No apport reports seem to happen any more. -Does
> any of this fit together with others experience?
> 
> 
> product: System Product Name (To Be Filled By O.E.M.) vendor: System
> manufacturer version: System Version serial: System Serial Number 
> width: 64 bits capabilities: SMBIOS version 2.5, DMI version 2.5, 
> 32-bit processes configuration: boot: normal chassis: desktop family:
> To Be Filled By O.E.M. sku: To Be Filled By O.E.M. uuid:
> 20E8001E-8C00-01D6-DE09-00248C73E401
> 
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