[ubuntu-uk] System apps crash on LiveCD (WAS: Mini-success story)

[James Milligan]

Sorry for the third email in as many minutes!

It worked fine after a restart, so it's all good again ;-)

James

Ps - I'll stop emailing now - sorry for the spam!

On 29 May 2009, at 14:28, James Milligan <lake54 at lake54.com> wrote:

> OK perhaps not as easy as I first thought
>
> Running from a live cd:
>
> For some reason every system app crashes. Firefox etc work fine, yet
> whenever I try to install flash (any of the 3 available) terminal or
> the installer app crashes.
>
> I'm restarting with the live cd again to see if it works this time
> otherwise I think I might have faulty memory (will try the memory test
> if it fails again)
>
> Has anyone got anything else I can try?
>
> James
>
> On 29 May 2009, at 14:19, James Milligan <lake54 at lake54.com> wrote:
>
>> Now this is something that's definitely going to help tomorrow!
>>
>> My PC with XP on has today started throwing blue screens every time  
>> it
>> starts up i.e. I can't use it - which is a nightmare because I'm  
>> using
>> a website online for some revision help.
>>
>> With the Ubuntu 8.10 live cd I've got, I can now go online for  
>> however
>> long I want! The only thing I have to do is install flash player and
>> that's it!!!
>>
>> Oh I'm so using Ubuntu full time as soon as I can!
>>
>> James
>>
>> PS - the BSOD error was machine check exception - mainly associated
>> with CPU but it seems to be running fine.
>>
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