FC3T1 - Prelink - System Hang every night c 04:30

[Charles Curley]

On Fri, Jul 30, 2004 at 10:05:26PM +0100, richard mullens wrote:
> 
>    Charles Curley wrote:
> 
> On Sun, Jul 25, 2004 at 02:25:48PM +0100, richard mullens wrote:
> 
> My system (Duron 850) hangs every night at about 04:30.
> System doesn't respond to mouse movement, keystroke, Control alt 
> anything or PING.
> The time in the botton right hand of X display is the same as (or 1 
> minute later than) the timestamp of /var/log/prelink.
> (Frozen) top shows "makewhatis" and prelink running recently.
> Last message in /var/log/prelink always (so far):-
> "warning /usr/lib/lib???.so??? has undefined non-weak symbols.
> This problem doesn't affect an other machine I have running FC3T1, and 
> perhaps, tonight,
> now that I have shut the case and added an extra fan, it will go away. 
> However,I'd be interested
> to know the purpose of this nightly activity - and the consequences were 
> I to inhibit it.

For what it does, try "info prelink" or "man prleink". As for the
conseqences if you disable it, you will probably see slightly longer
loading times, if anything.


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