Thanks all for the help and advice on handling package upgrades and
memory management. I have been able to update my system now and use
icecat version 60. I can verify that the tab crash appears to be
resolved with this new version of icecat on my PC, however I also now
notice that scrolling is not as smooth as it used to be. There seem to
be some delay and jerkiness when scrolling up and down pages with allot
of content, like say a nice wikipedia page with some meaty topic and
lots of figures. I have compared this by booting into my old system
config, and find the scrolling in the previous icecat version is
definitely smoother. Gnome web also shows smoother scrolling than the
version 60 icecat. This new version looks to still be a pre-release, so
maybe there are some issues to address with the fluidity of the
scrolling.
On 29.09.2018 10:14, Ricardo Wurmus wrote:
nightowl <[email protected]> writes:
I have been trying to upgrade the icecat package. I am using the
'guix system reconfigure' command, but seem to be running out of disk
space.
Generally, I recommend keeping the user profile separate from a lean
system profile. This allows you to upgrade your system even if some of
your user packages cannot currently be built for some reason.
It is also starting to compile some things instead of using
substitutes, but maybe I need to wait for the servers to settle down.
That’s possible. You can get an overview of what’s going to be
downloaded and what will be built with the “--dry-run” option.
Currently after running garbage collection, my installation is still
about 17GB on a 20GB partition. I have several generations of past
configurations, so would it be possible to free up space by removing
some of the past generations? How would that be done, I do not see a
command for doing that?
You need to manually remove old links of the form
/var/guix/profiles/system-*-link — be careful not to remove the link
corresponding to the current system! After that you can run “guix gc”.
--
Ricardo
