Re: DO NOT UPGRADE TO POTATO. MENU UPLOAD ON OCT 2 KILLS SYSTEMS

1999-10-06 Thread Jean-Christophe . Dubacq
On 5 Oct 1999, Ben Pfaff wrote: > "A. M. Varon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Could we have a potato mailing lists? > That's part of what debian-devel *is* for. Why would we want another > list for it? Maybe a debian-design would care of long-terms management and a debian-devel would care of

Re: DO NOT UPGRADE TO POTATO. MENU UPLOAD ON OCT 2 KILLS SYSTEMS

1999-10-06 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Tue, Oct 05, 1999 at 08:13:41PM -0400, Terry Katz wrote: > 2.1.3-2 is one that does it ... Seems to behave itself here. But then I only have fvwm2 installed, none of these fancy new wms. hamish -- Hamish Moffatt VK3SB. CCs of replies on mailing lists are welcome.

Re: DO NOT UPGRADE TO POTATO. MENU UPLOAD ON OCT 2 KILLS SYSTEMS

1999-10-06 Thread Ben Pfaff
"A. M. Varon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Could we have a potato mailing lists? That's part of what debian-devel *is* for. Why would we want another list for it? -- "MONO - Monochrome Emulation This field is used to store your favorite bit." --FreeVGA Attribute Controller Reference

RE: DO NOT UPGRADE TO POTATO. MENU UPLOAD ON OCT 2 KILLS SYSTEMS

1999-10-06 Thread A. M. Varon
> It doesn't totally kill the system .. It seems to start up the various wm's, > and they run at about 95% cpu and 88%+ memory for about 2-5 mins (each), but > they do die (or finish?) and everything is fine (my worst case, I saw > gnome-panel running at 95% for about 3 mins, then wmaker running at

Re: DO NOT UPGRADE TO POTATO. MENU UPLOAD ON OCT 2 KILLS SYSTEMS

1999-10-06 Thread Bob Nielsen
So that's what did that! It was not anywhere near as disastrous as some of the things which update-xaw-wrappers has done to my system. In any case, I grabbed the new menu from incoming. On Tue, Oct 05, 1999 at 08:13:41PM -0400, Terry Katz wrote: > 2.1.3-2 is one that does it ... > > It doesn't

RE: DO NOT UPGRADE TO POTATO. MENU UPLOAD ON OCT 2 KILLS SYSTEMS

1999-10-06 Thread Terry Katz
2.1.3-2 is one that does it ... It doesn't totally kill the system .. It seems to start up the various wm's, and they run at about 95% cpu and 88%+ memory for about 2-5 mins (each), but they do die (or finish?) and everything is fine (my worst case, I saw gnome-panel running at 95% for about 3 min

Re: DO NOT UPGRADE TO POTATO. MENU UPLOAD ON OCT 2 KILLS SYSTEMS

1999-10-05 Thread David Coe
> "Adam" == Adam Heath <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Adam> I just did an upgrade. The menu pkg ate memory like no Adam> tomorrow. [...] Adam> Cease and desist at all costs. Adam> I have just been informed on irc that a fixed menu is in Adam> incoming. So, it should all b

DO NOT UPGRADE TO POTATO. MENU UPLOAD ON OCT 2 KILLS SYSTEMS

1999-10-05 Thread Adam Heath
I just did an upgrade. The menu pkg ate memory like no tomorrow. I have a dual-330, 256m ram, 384m swap. Update-menus calls install-menu, and I saw that eating 280m of memory. root 19580 21.6 83.3 282784 215152 pts/8 R15:51 0:13 install-menu /etc/menu-methods//enlightenment-nosound -