Thread: App manager causing strange graphics behavior
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VulcanRidr is offline VulcanRidr
2009-07-22 , 09:14
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Originally Posted by qwerty12 View Post
That one can be fixed by doing - as root: "gtk-update-icon-cache -f /usr/share/icons/hicolor"

A program you were most likely installing would have been running that above command and failed. Hence losing the spinning dots.
Thank you, qwerty12. I didn't know why it was failing.

The most common cause for it to fail is lack of space. The JFFS2 filesystem used on the internal flash of your tablet wants as much space as possible.
Which may explain your slowness, especially around updating packages and installing things as that will do a lot of writing to the flash.
Yes, I had major space problems. I actually filled / at one point, but I have gone back and done some cleanup. I am now at 88% (28.9MB available), but I would like to clean up more. I have to figure out where I have multiple similar apps (especially some of the notepad-style apps) and get rid of the ones I am not using.

I'm guessing a lot of my problems with space would be solved by putting the filesystem on the internal flash...I just need to find time to read up and do it. The alternative would be to symlink things onto the flash, a habit I loathe doing.

Thanks qwerty12.

--vr