   A colleague has managed to get my computer system working 
again.

   As reported, after installing and then logging into CSWgnome,
(the programmes were obtained (last Friday) with pkg-get via
url=http://ibiblio.org/pub/packages/solaris/csw/unstable)
a problem shortly emerged apparently associated with the 
file 'fc-cache'. 

   The csw version of this file was apparently started from 
within /etc/init.d. 
The characteristic of the problem was that the CSW version of
fc-cache when running used a very large amount of physical memory and 
the disk activity I reported was presumably associated with the rest 
of the software swapping in and out of virtual memory(?) (my computer
has 1 Gb of physical memory).

   My colleague logged in remotely and killed the offending 
fc-cache process and then removed the offending entry (to CSW...) 
in /etc/init.d and rebooted my computer. It seems to be working 
again and I am, once again, using the standard SUN CDE environment!
(I have also removed the many and various CSWgnome related packages).

   Whether my brief report can serve to help the experts 
amongst you I am not so sure. However, there is likely one problem
with the gnome version in the unstable directory above and this 
is maybe related in some manner with the csw fc-cache file ..... . 

   Regards, Jonathan Boyd

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Jonathan Boyd
Tel: +44 1865 275184
FAX: +44 1865 275253


