[ubuntu-uk] Constant crashing

Gareth France gareth.france at gmail.com
Sat May 31 20:16:17 UTC 2014


This Thunderbird issue is doing my head in! It now tells me I have emails
that don't exist! I suppose asking it to run Ubuntu could be taxing the
hardware and causing an overheat. I'll take a look tomorrow.


On 31 May 2014 21:11, Colin Law <clanlaw at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 31 May 2014 08:44, Gareth France <gareth.france at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Sorry for the late reply guys. For some reason as yet unexplained
> > Thunderbird decided to tell me I had unread emails but wouldn't display
> > them! It's not running slowly at all, it just freezes at random points
> > forcing you to power-cycle. I will be taking another look at it later on
> > today. I may try a re-install with one of the other flavours, we'll see.
>
> Do you mean that the machine is absolutely frozen?  No mouse,
> Ctrl+Alt+F1 does nothing, etc?
> Have a look in /var/log/syslog to see if there are any messages before
> the freeze.
> If nothing there then it could well be a hardware issue, overheating
> possibly, or PSU for example.  Try booting into memtest and leave it
> running for a few hours and see if it freezes then or shows errors.
>
> Colin
>
> >
> >
> > On 30 May 2014 15:47, Pete Smout <smoutpete at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >> On May 30, 2014 9:57 AM, "George DiceGeorge" <dicegeorge at hotmail.com>
> >> wrote:
> >> >
> >> > as its an older machine try xubuntu?
> >> > http://xubuntu.org/getxubuntu/
> >> > [g]
> >> >
> >> >
> >> > -----Original Message----- From: Gareth France Sent: Friday, 30 May,
> >> > 2014 07:07 To: UK Ubuntu Talk Subject: [ubuntu-uk] Constant crashing
> >> > I recently installed Ubuntu on a friends computer as it was running
> >> > painfully slowly with Windows. It is an older machine and xxxxxxxxxx
> >> >
> >> >
> >> > --
> >> > ubuntu-uk at lists.ubuntu.com
> >> > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk
> >> > https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
> >>
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> On that age of machine I would consider lubuntu or xubuntu or even
> >> crunchbang (not a *buntu but Debian based lightweight Openbox os, hope I
> >> don't break any list rules straying from *buntus)
> >>
> >> Also look at how much RAM the machine has, it can be picked up for a few
> >> pounds now !
> >>
> >> Regards
> >>
> >> Pete S
> >>
> >>
> >> --
> >> ubuntu-uk at lists.ubuntu.com
> >> https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk
> >> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
> >>
> >
> >
> > --
> > ubuntu-uk at lists.ubuntu.com
> > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk
> > https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
> >
>
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