Save Settings

H'lo,

I'm having difficulty getting anything to save settings, i.e.,
Mozilla won't keep the bookmark for http://www.cinlug.org; I have to type it in.

I also have a custom date format I use in OO that disappears every time I close the program.

Completely clueless. Maybe I could get one of the Pacers over here to shoot it. Any hints?
Vin¢

Kubuntu 6 on Compaq M2000.

Hi Michael,

I downloaded the x86 Kubuntu 6 iso, burned & installed it. I now have to log in as user unless I boot to service mode (that sudo thing is something I'll have to get used to). -Not bright enough to hack that yet.

All the bookmarks (Mozilla) are imported from the Win part., and have stuck since installing, but I can't seem to add new ones lately. I don't recall ever having the date setting in OO stick.

I've run several updates since then, and wasn't incredibly observant as to which ones... Think I may have installed an errant security patch?

-Hold that thought, I just enabled all the permissions for the bookmarks file - will get back to you on that in a minute...
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(Possibly) a separate issue; every few minutes, my HDD thrashes, and everything crawls for about 30 sec. What have I done to this poor machine?

Thanks,
Vin¢

Okay, Mozilla's issue is gone now; don't know why.

The other issue remains, every 10 min. (+/- 30 sec.), the system slows to unuseable for the better part of a minute.

Vin¢

Thank you, Dave.

Right now, under what I consider normal circumstances, I have 2 OO docs open, 2 tabs under Mozilla, a Konsole terminal, and the Character Map utility. The list goes something like:
95 processes, 1 active, 93 sleeping, 1 zombie.
CPU numbers are 2-10% used, and all zeroes except the idle.

(That zombie doesn't sound great.)

When it's going through it's little seizure, the delay in Alt+Tab only lets me see it fall from 40% back to normal.

It does appear, though, that a root process called "Kicker", and the user process, "kdepanel" are the ones w/ high CPU percentages when it finally flips over.

What would you do w/ numbers like that?
Vin¢

How much ram does this system have? An M2000 has a relatively low clock speed Celeron M processor. With a smaller amount of ram (256MB or less) the system may be swapping out to disk and thus would have noticible slowness.

Much appreciated, guys!

The M2000 has a 1.5GHz Celeron, but you're right (and so are you, too, Dave!), it only has 256Mb RAM.

Bear in mind I'm a (very) recent refugee from Micro$oft, so I don't know how the kernel handles RAM access, or if it is tune-able. Is it necessary (or just a good idea) to defrag the RAM? If so, does anyone recommend an ap?

Your next beers are on me,
Vin¢

Is there a way to write the results of the command to a .TXT file for posting? I'm not familiar enough to recognize the daemons by name.
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You know, I didn't realize unil seeing that exchange in text format how obvious it is that Mike Judge is Hank Hill.

-Replace "cheeseburger" for "propane" and "Chotchkie's" with "Strickland" & the voice will pop.

Vin¢