On Tue, Aug 18, 2009 at 9:25 PM, Kaya Saman<SamanKaya at netscape.net> wrote: > Moinak Ghosh wrote: >> >> On Tue, Aug 18, 2009 at 7:56 PM, Moinak Ghosh<moinakg at belenix.org> wrote: >> >>> >>> On Tue, Aug 18, 2009 at 7:38 AM, Kaya Saman<SamanKaya at netscape.net> >>> wrote: >>> >>>> >>>> Hi guys, >>>> >>>> I cannot really call the first install of v. 0.8 a success as the system >>>> isn't letting me login to any DE or even able to connect to the wireless >>>> network. Here is output listed: >>>> >>>> admin at NotinoC2200:~$ cat /var/adm/messages >>>> Aug 18 03:12:34 NotinoC2200 kdm[518]: [ID 197553 daemon.error] X server >>>> for >>>> display :0 terminated unexpectedly >>>> >>> >>> [...] >>> >>> ?Arrgh your machine seems to suffer royally due to RAM depletion. I need >>> ?to check the swap definitions. >>> > > Thanks Moinak for the head up! As I mention often it is an ancient Centrino > with no memory and continuously over heats..... > > Since my folks have been on holiday I am using my mothers new laptop which > has 2GB memory and core2duo CPU, you read my doc :-) the issue with this > system is that on Sunday my parents get back from vacation and I'm back to > that silly Centrino. > > I guess that's the price one pays for being unemployed that all their > systems are old and can't handle modern software, sorry this probably sounds > really petty but unfortunately it's a reality for me and one that I do not > enjoy but am stuck with as whoever I contact company-wise isn't recruiting. > I don't want to sound too emotional but this position is really demoralizing > for me! Which is why I enjoy Belenix so much as from day 1 you guys all made > me feel really welcome :-) >>> >>> >> >> ? BTW 512MB is not really a recommended config for KDE4. >> > > Hmm... for Solaris?? yeh I guessed, but with Linux works ok only 100% cpu > usage - don't ask :-(
Ah I can understand. The job market is only just opening up. I did not have any computer at home till 2002 when SUN started providing laptops to employees in India. After that I did all development on that laptop, including CD ISO and kernel builds, it was very painful. The laptop tended to overheat during builds and switch off, so I had to put it raised on books and keep a pedestal fan blowing on it at full blast! Occasionally I'd clean layers of dust using an air blower from a vacuum cleaner: http://blogs.sun.com/moinakg/entry/ferrari_cooling_station It was only on Feb 2007 that I purchased a decent desktop system and on March 2008 that I upgraded the RAM from 1GB to 4GB and added a 500G harddisk. In my current job I do not get a laptop so the desktop is the only system that I work on at home. Anyway, I figured that the script is not handling physical swap properly and put an updated script on the website. So in your case installing from 0.7.1 is providing so physical swap, so 512MB gets used up fairly quickly even before KDE starts. The new script will propagate physical swap definition from the current environment instead of assuming ZVOL based swap by default. Regards, Moinak. -- ================================ http://www.belenix.org/ http://moinakg.wordpress.com/
