2. Wasy Ubuntu Problems (Brent)

[Glen Merrick]

Two things you should check.  Your CD may have gone bad (not likely) or
those two computers could have bad ram.  On the Ubuntu Live 6.10 CD there is
an option to check the ram on the computer.  Run this utility with only 1
stick in at a time to identify a bad ram stick.

Glen Merrick
Electronic Technologist
Eastern Passage
Nova Scotia



Message: 2
Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2007 12:50:24 -0700
From: Brent <brent-hughes at shaw.ca>
Subject: Wasy Ubuntu Problems
To: ubuntu-ca at lists.ubuntu.com
Message-ID: <46018C80.70408 at shaw.ca>
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Greetings,

I am a retired, broken down old audio sales person living in Western Canada.
For entertainment and education I refurbish older PCs that I then give away
to those who wouldn't otherwise have computers.

I have been installing Ubuntu 6.06LTS and Kubuntu 6.06 as my OS of choice
and have not had any real issues until lately when Easy Ubuntu failed to
install on two machines I have on the bench. I had been using the Deb
package supplied by the Ubuntu team to do the installs but it no longer
works. Doing a manual install fails to locate several packages on various
repositories. Switching to 6.10 and using SVN gives me Berkley DB errors and
"failure to allocate memory" errors.

Both machines are PIIIs with 384 (450mHz) and 512 (1.0gHz) of memory. 
Increasing the swap file size and adding more ram does not prevent these
errors either. Both work fine for all other applications except for
multimedia, hence the use of Easy Ubuntu.

Is there a problem with  Easy Ubuntu that I'm missing? Has it been suspended
and is no longer available? I know there are legal issues in the US with
respect to non-free codecs but does that apply here? There seems to be
additional information at freecontrib.org but it's all in French but that is
not my second language (I know, how un-Canadian is that?)

I am fairly new to Linux and am still learning so detailed assistance would
be the best but I can muddle through generalized help too. Any and all help
would be greatly appreciated.

Brent

ps, forgive the large font, I am legally blind and bigger is always better.
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