YouTube on Lubuntu 12.04

[Aere Greenway]

Phill:

Thank you very much for the additional information.

If what you state is indeed the case, it definitely answers my question 
as to whether a 450 megahertz machine with 512 megabytes RAM can be 
considered a viable minimum system for my users.

And I think the answer is, that it *can't* be a viable minimum system.

How could I expect users to wait 90 minutes for a machine to get out of 
what appears to be a hang?  And (having tried it) the machine can't be 
used for MIDI music while in that extended 'busy' state.

I think I will bid a fond 'farewell' to my old trusty HP-Vectra, as it 
journeys to that great bit-bucket in the sky, and use my next-to-slowest 
machine (a Compac P933, 933-megahertz machine with 512 megabytes RAM) 
for testing as a minimum system for my software.

Such is the march of progress, for better, or for worse.

Sincerely,
Aere

On 04/04/2013 06:44 AM, Phill Whiteside wrote:
> Hi Aere,
>
> I suspect you are seeing
>
> "Please be aware that your system may seem to 'hang' (stop) at about 
> 90% (dpkg), it has not; it just takes a little time (up to 90 
> minutes). The lowest specification that we have seen working is a 
> Pentium 2, with 64MB of RAM using lubuntu core."
>
> It is mentioned in the minimal install area [1], but possibly the bit 
> about waiting for upto 90 mins needs repeating in the alternate area.
>
> Regards,
>
> Phill.
> 1. https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Lubuntu/Documentation/MinimalInstall
>
>
> On 4 April 2013 06:03, Aere Greenway <Aere at dvorak-keyboards.com 
> <mailto:Aere at dvorak-keyboards.com>> wrote:
>
>     On 04/03/2013 03:31 PM, Nio Wiklund wrote:
>
>         I suggest that you try updating with terminal window commands
>
>         sudo apt-get update
>         sudo apt-get upgrade
>
>     Nio:
>
>     I tried this on my HP-Vectra machine (both on Lubuntu 12.10, and
>     Ubuntu-Studio 12.04).
>
>     Unfortunately, I encounter the same (or worse) problem.
>
>     Everything seems to be going fine, and I can monitor everything.
>
>     Then it gets to the point where it says:
>
>     ldconfig deferred processing taking place
>
>     At that point, control returns to the command prompt, so I can
>     execute other commands.
>
>     But the processor is over 90% busy, running python as user=root.
>      It keeps running for longer than would normally be required for
>     applying updates.  And watching the task manager window gives me
>     no clue of what it is doing.
>
>     If I run the software updater, it says my system is up-to-date.
>
>     I finally shut down my system (hoping the package database didn't
>     get messed-up).
>
>     The very same thing happens on Ubuntu-Studio (Xubuntu).
>
>     At least using the software-updater, I could get clues from the
>     task manager of what it was doing.
>
>     So, unfortunately, I still cannot reliably update Linux systems on
>     my HP-Vectra (450 megahertz, 512 meg RAM) machine.
>
>     -- 
>     Sincerely,
>     Aere
>
>
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Sincerely,
Aere

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