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starchos

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Registered: 2010-03-10

Posts: 26

change

I'm sorry to be so unspecified, I'm quite new in Arch. I did system update couple of days ago and before it went forward after checking those three base package repos. Core,Extra,Community. then pacman told shall I change to some other packaging system, if I remember correct it related in packaging, but after that change system became extreme slow while using pacman, does anyone have a hint what was that change and how to go back to earlier position. Situation now while using makepkg is that my system hangs I can't browse web some programs hang, earlier this were not the case, and even now I followed from htop and xfce4-taskmanager, system is not using 100% resources more like 25% but even so it hangs specially while packing compiled software with xz.

ngoonee

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Registered: 2009-03-17

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Re: change

Does your system hang while NOT using makepkg? You can always change back to gz compression in /etc/makepkg.conf.

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starchos

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Registered: 2010-03-10

Posts: 26

Re: change

I went through /var/log/pacman.log and the change were: removed xz-utils change to xz. I double checked some older packages and those are packed with gz. But your question, has there been system slowdown, I remember  after that change (which doesn't have to depend exactly on that same module upgrade) there has been some boot ups which have taken quite amount of time not just marginally slower.

starchos

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Registered: 2010-03-10

Posts: 26

Re: change

hmm I received this at bootup: Receiving S.M.A.R.T. status bad backup and replace error.
might be the reason for these other things, odd the life of Hard Disks under Linux is real short this Maxtor did "record" I bought it on october and took it in use on november. So it is now 8 months old.

pyther

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Registered: 2008-01-21

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Re: change

You probably just got unlucky. Plus I fail to see how you got a Maxtor as far as I know seagate brought them out and have keep the seagate brand new on anything new they produce. Anyways, you drive would have gone in windows or linux.

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