
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=680456 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=680456#c0 Summary: Desktop unusable due to prepare_preload using all available RAM after boot Classification: openSUSE Product: openSUSE 11.4 Version: Final Platform: x86-64 OS/Version: SuSE Other Status: NEW Severity: Normal Priority: P5 - None Component: Other AssignedTo: bnc-team-screening@forge.provo.novell.com ReportedBy: mikeduck@sky.com QAContact: qa@suse.de Found By: --- Blocker: --- User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:2.0b12) Gecko/20110222 Firefox/4.0b12 System takes a long time to boot and when the desktop loads it is unusable. The hard disk activity light is lit solidly. System Monitor reports no excessive CPU loading and only 290MB of RAM in use. "top" reports that the process prepare_preload is using all available RAM (ie 2GB) Does not happen with every boot. So far it has happened a total of 4 times in 5 reboots and one cold boot. Reproducible: Sometimes Steps to Reproduce: 1.any reboot 2.cold boot 3. Actual Results: Problem existed 4 times out of 6. Expected Results: Booted normally and given usable desktop in seconds. I have installed gnome-shell and this creates a problem at the end of the text screens at boot time. The last line of text is "failed to acquire org.gnome.displaymanager" but the boot continues and loads the normal gnome desktop. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.