Re: update kernel, no X, and slow nautilus

[Price Technology <info price-technology com>]

I don't use Nautilus, I'm using KDE rather than Gnome, but Package Manager is 
incredibly slow and somewhat buggy.  If installing from CD, I have to "open 
folder" before the installation of the last chosen package will begin.

Joebewan



On Sunday 30 June 2002 04:10 am, Jay Daniels wrote:
> 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
>
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