update kernel, no X, and slow nautilus

[Jay Daniels <jay infoave net>]

I thought I would try updating the kernel on the 7.3 box with up2date
instead of removing it from the list in the alert notification tool.

Everything worked ok, but when I tried to start X it didn't work.  So I
ran Xconfigurator, still didn't work.

Move some stuff like .Xauthority, .gnome* etc. till I found the culprit,
~/.xinitrc!

Now why did having an /empty/ .xinitrc file have to do with X starting
when it was working before?  I moved .xinitrc to .xinitrc.old and X
works again!  Ok, fixed read on...

Nautilus has always been slow as hell and rpm seems very slow to install
or update packages at times, anyone else have this problem?  I have a
7.3 ALL updates, 500mhz AMD and Radeon Mad Dog vid card with 32mb and
plenty of ram...

$ cat meminfo
        total:    used:    free:  shared: buffers:  cached:
Mem:  461115392 289759232 171356160        0  9568256 156614656
Swap: 1073397760        0 1073397760
MemTotal:       450308 kB
MemFree:        167340 kB
MemShared:           0 kB
Buffers:          9344 kB
Cached:         152944 kB
SwapCached:          0 kB
Active:         228380 kB
Inact_dirty:      1820 kB
Inact_clean:     10360 kB
Inact_target:    48112 kB
HighTotal:           0 kB
HighFree:            0 kB
LowTotal:       450308 kB
LowFree:        167340 kB
SwapTotal:     1048240 kB
SwapFree:      1048240 kB
Committed_AS:   178104 kB

nautilus was slow all along and even with the old video card.  Is
nautilus slow on everyones box?


jay