This is a weird one. This weekend I reinstalled openSUSE 12.2 on my computer (Zotac GIGA ID70, Intel i3 2600, 4GB RAM, Nvidia 430, 300GB HD, 120GB SSD). The previous install worked fine, but after all the fiddling I had done it was messy, and I also wanted to set up dual boot with Win7. I partitioned the SSD into 2, and installed Windows on one part (which works fine). I partitioned the mechanical drive into 2 and formatted it as NTFS. I installed openSUSE onto the second partition on the SSD and set up the second partition on the mechanical drive as storage. Now the problem. Booting openSUSE, which should be very fast is actually very slow. It boots in spurts. The Plymouth loading animation is very fast, and then there is a long period 15 seconds or more of black screen before KDE4.9.2 loads. Loading YAST Software Installer can take up to 15 or 20 minutes, and installing apps is equally slow. While loading the Repositories, YAST will sit there doing next to nothing and than flash, it loads one Repo... then nothing for a while and so on. Downloading apps during install is the same. YAST sits there doing nothign and then bam, the RPM is downloaded at the max for my ISP,... then nothing for a minute or two. I'm trying to copy a 35 Gig directory from a NAS drive to the openSUSE storage drive, and it's taking literally days to complete the copy where it should only take an hour or so (ran the copy for 6 hours and it only copied over 1.1Gb). In the messages log I am seeing hundereds and hundreds of repeats of these lines ---------------------------------- Oct 14 13:42:15 smaug42 dbus-daemon[509]: **** Refreshing ATA SMART data for /sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1f.2/ata1/host0/target0:0:0/0:0:0:0/block/sda Oct 14 13:42:15 smaug42 dbus-daemon[509]: helper(pid 12878): launched job udisks-helper-ata-smart-collect on /dev/sda Oct 14 13:42:15 smaug42 dbus-daemon[509]: **** Refreshing ATA SMART data for /sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1f.2/ata2/host1/target1:0:0/1:0:0:0/block/sdb Oct 14 13:42:15 smaug42 dbus-daemon[509]: helper(pid 12879): launched job udisks-helper-ata-smart-collect on /dev/sdb Oct 14 13:42:15 smaug42 dbus-daemon[509]: helper(pid 12879): completed with exit code 0 Oct 14 13:42:15 smaug42 dbus-daemon[509]: **** EMITTING CHANGED for /sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1f.2/ata2/host1/target1:0:0/1:0:0:0/block/sdb Oct 14 13:42:15 smaug42 dbus-daemon[509]: helper(pid 12878): completed with exit code 0 Oct 14 13:42:15 smaug42 dbus-daemon[509]: **** EMITTING CHANGED for /sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1f.2/ata1/host0/target0:0:0/0:0:0:0/block/sda Oct 14 13:42:27 smaug42 dbus-daemon[509]: dbus[509]: [system] Activating service name='org.freedesktop.PackageKit' (using servicehelper) Oct 14 13:42:27 smaug42 dbus[509]: [system] Activating service name='org.freedesktop.PackageKit' (using servicehelper) Oct 14 13:42:27 smaug42 dbus-daemon[509]: dbus[509]: [system] Successfully activated service 'org.freedesktop.PackageKit' Oct 14 13:42:27 smaug42 dbus[509]: [system] Successfully activated service 'org.freedesktop.PackageKit' Oct 14 13:48:27 smaug42 dbus-daemon[509]: dbus[509]: [system] Activating service name='org.freedesktop.PackageKit' (using servicehelper) Oct 14 13:48:27 smaug42 dbus[509]: [system] Activating service name='org.freedesktop.PackageKit' (using servicehelper) Oct 14 13:48:27 smaug42 dbus-daemon[509]: dbus[509]: [system] Successfully activated service 'org.freedesktop.PackageKit' Oct 14 13:48:27 smaug42 dbus[509]: [system] Successfully activated service 'org.freedesktop.PackageKit' Oct 14 13:51:46 smaug42 dbus-daemon[509]: dbus[509]: [system] Activating service name='org.kde.powerdevil.backlighthelper' (using servicehelper) Oct 14 13:51:46 smaug42 dbus[509]: [system] Activating service name='org.kde.powerdevil.backlighthelper' (using servicehelper) Oct 14 13:51:46 smaug42 dbus-daemon[509]: no kernel backlight interface found ---------------------------------- This is on a default install with a clean /home (new users created, no old configs copied over, full update from the oS repos and KDE 4.9.2). The only new element is addition of the SSD drive. Any ideas on this? I'm tempted to wipe it all and reconfigure/reinstall all over again. C. -- openSUSE 12.2 x86_64, KDE 4.9.2 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org