After upgrading a Dell Inspiron 6400 laptop from Ubuntu 9.04 to 9.10 the machine was so slow it was barely usable. top was showing a load average of 7 after opening Firefox or OpenOffice.
Strangely no command was using more than 10% of the CPU, memory consumption seemed pretty normal and there was barely any disk activity. But the system was painfully slow.
After a couple of hours I decided to follow some obscure forum post (link lost, sorry) and I deleted the xorg.conf file and rebooted the machine. After the reboot the machine was as snappy as before the upgrade.
Weird.
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You mean "I renamed the
Submitted by Inferis on
You mean "I renamed the xorg.conf file to xorg.conf.bak (or something similar)". Right?
And oh: it's Linux. Of course it's weird. :p
Of course I made a backup of
Submitted by litrik on
Of course I made a backup of the xorg.conf file. Me no crazy :)
And yes, every Ubuntu upgrade breaks at least one major function. But hey... I was never able to upgrade a Windows machine without problems either...