# HG changeset patch # User Steve Losh # Date 1556675510 14400 # Node ID a2bac6b00a6b275c1ef0a8a0268b98e60ccdf3e6 # Parent 9c4c16c0c6a1b23239de17d892c6316093a7d5f9 Update diff -r 9c4c16c0c6a1 -r a2bac6b00a6b README.markdown --- a/README.markdown Sat Apr 20 23:45:28 2019 -0400 +++ b/README.markdown Tue Apr 30 21:51:50 2019 -0400 @@ -509,3 +509,23 @@ * It's still not clear to me how to decide what's a "good" multiplier for smaller-sized PRNGs. They fail the tests right away because they're so small, so I can't really go by that. + +## 2019-04-30 + +Started playing/rating the lisp jam games. Wanted to install a VM to safely +play the non-web ones, which led to a big old rabbit hole: + +* Need to enable CPU virtualization in the BIOS to get VirtualBox to work. +* When I rebooted my desktop crashed right after logging in. +* Took me a while to find my display manager logs because I can never remember + its fucking name (and can never remember that it's "display manager" and not + "desktop manager"). Hey idiot future self: you use XDM. +* Thought the problem was maybe because I just upgraded SBCL and didn't rebuild + Stump. Tried that, didn't help. +* Saw some errors in the XDM log about the config file not parsing properly. + Fixed those. Didn't help. +* Opened `.xsessionrc` and immediately saw the problem: the `gpg-agent` shit + I added on my work machine and pulled down here. Christ. Removed that for + now because I can't remember the magic systemd incantation required to get it + to quit fucking autostarting the agent whenever anything looks in the general + direction of its ports and I want to move on with my fucking life tonight.