🚀 go-pugleaf

	Recently, whenever I boot up -- and often when I
give some command -- the computer makes fervent whirring
noises, and keeps the little red light either blinking fast,
or on continuously (perhaps there are blinks so fast I can't
see them), but without doing anything visible.

	Sometimes the little yellow light on the bottom of
the DSL modem also gets hyperactive, but mostly not.

	Meanwhile, the machine gets very sluggish or
altogether unresponsive to commands. You click on something
in the GUI, or give a command in an xterm, and it either
takes no notice ever at all, or goes on for several minutes
absorbed in its churning before it responds.

	That got steadily worse, even though I shutdown
every evening and reboot in the morning;  then recently it
refused to boot, requiring me first to "run fsck manually,
without -a or -p." Took me a while to realize it meant to
command "fsck /var", though I had figured out from a manual
what "manually, i.e. without -a or -p" meant. I finally did
that, and told it yes whenever it asked "fix?" (figuring I
had nothing to lose); now it works again, but the churning
is still there.

	Fwiw, I'm running three betas, and probably
shouldn't be : Galeon 0.11.3, Opera 6.0B2, and Pan 0.11.2 --
is that the trouble? Do I just need to run solider releases,
even if it be of lesser software? Or have I messed up some
other way? (It doesn't seem to help much to arrange for the
startx command not to launch any of the betas.)
--
RR 'Beartooth' Neuswanger <karhunhammas (at) lserv.com>
retiree & linux greenhorn w/RH 7.2
Keep in mind that I have no idea what I am talking about.