The major screwage continues
Mar. 24th, 2009 05:09 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
sniffnoyUnsurprisingly, Dell was little help. I knew their customer support was supposed to be no good, I just didn't expect to ever have to *use* it.
Still, the fact that the diagnostic boot didn't detect a single hardware error does make me rethink things - maybe I did update something and not even notice, I mean am I going to notice that? (Though what could possibly cause this, I have no idea...)
And furthermore, it really just seems to be gnome (in particular, launching programs or logging out/shutting down- though it seems not all are affected?) that's so slow.
So I want to try reinstalling gnome - it's a bit preferable to reinstalling Ubuntu from a CD, IIRC that wipes everything out (please correct me if this is wrong! Though yes, I have backed things up). Only problem: I can't very well just do "sudo aptitude reinstall ubuntu-desktop" if I can't connect to the goddamn internet! And here I didn't think that second problem would be relevant - or even a real problem. (The fact that it "connects" to the network, but then can't even so much as ping other computers on the network, puzzles me - usually, it either fails to connect or works as it should.)
Well, I have backed things up, I guess I may as well try the reinstall...
-Harry
Still, the fact that the diagnostic boot didn't detect a single hardware error does make me rethink things - maybe I did update something and not even notice, I mean am I going to notice that? (Though what could possibly cause this, I have no idea...)
And furthermore, it really just seems to be gnome (in particular, launching programs or logging out/shutting down- though it seems not all are affected?) that's so slow.
So I want to try reinstalling gnome - it's a bit preferable to reinstalling Ubuntu from a CD, IIRC that wipes everything out (please correct me if this is wrong! Though yes, I have backed things up). Only problem: I can't very well just do "sudo aptitude reinstall ubuntu-desktop" if I can't connect to the goddamn internet! And here I didn't think that second problem would be relevant - or even a real problem. (The fact that it "connects" to the network, but then can't even so much as ping other computers on the network, puzzles me - usually, it either fails to connect or works as it should.)
Well, I have backed things up, I guess I may as well try the reinstall...
-Harry
