Alexander E. Patrakov wrote:
Dan McGhee wrote:
This is the other problem that I have with livecd. I must use twm if
I don't want to be able to take a nap each time I refocus the xfce
terminal after I've worked in Firefox. Sometimes it's so bad that
the screen won't respond to CTRL-ALT-Backspace and I have to use the
power button.
1) How much memory do you have? XFCE and Mozilla require at least 256
MB of RAM+swap. If you have less RAM, make a swap partition (e.g.
/dev/sda2), then mkswap /dev/sda2 ; swapon /dev/sda2. See if this helps.
Ooops. I didn't realize until just last night, after I had finished by
build that I had forgotten to turn on swap using the livecd. More red face.
However, I was able to work around the situation by 'startx -- -depth
16' There was no loss of speed then. I'll bet the swap situation would
work. BTW I have 750M of RAM.
2) If it doesn't, read further, but please don't get me wrong.
I was able to reproduce this sort of a bug on the current CD, and even
reported it:
http://archives.linuxfromscratch.org/mail-archives/livecd/2005-November/002329.html.
But, the current position of the project leader is to use unionfs and
have device-mapper as a spare option. I can't overrule the decisions
made by the project leader, even if this basically means running the
LiveCD on the tainted kernel.
From now on, my default response to LiveCD bug reports involving
segfaults, permission issues or slowness with sufficient amount of
RAM+swap will be as follows:
This is probably a unionfs bug, please copy everything from the CD
filesystem to a new hard disk partition formatted as ext2, specify no
swap in /etc/fstab, reinstall sysvinit and lfs-bootscripts, install
the boot loader and try booting into this hard-disk copy of the CD.
Then try reproducing your bug there.
I completely understand the decision of the project leader. I thank you
for your efforts. As I said above I've completed my LFS build using the
livecd and have come to believe that it's a great tool. I'm just glad
that it wasn't some dumb thing that I was doing :-)
Thanks again,
Dan
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