[ubuntu-uk] Constant crashing

[Colin Law]

On 31 May 2014 21:46, Gareth France <gareth.france at gmail.com> wrote:
> I doubt you'd find 2gb in a pentium 4. I'll install Lubuntu or Xubuntu and
> see how that goes.

You don't actually need to re-install, just install lubuntu-desktop
and then select it from the logon screen.

Run memtest for a few hours first though, if that fails then nothing will work.

Colin

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>
> On 31 May 2014 21:31, Colin Law <clanlaw at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> On 31 May 2014 21:16, Gareth France <gareth.france at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > 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.
>>
>> I have just looked back and realised this is the thread about the old
>> PC, I don't think we know yet how much RAM it has, crashing could be
>> caused by not enough.  If less than 1GB then no hope of running Unity
>> I think, ideally at least 2GB.
>>
>> Colin
>>
>> >
>> >
>> > 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
>> >> >> >
>> >> >> >
>> >> >> > --
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>> >> >> > 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
>> >> >>
>> >> >>
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