[DC LoCo] Recent 10.04 LTS Observations - ONLY

[Daniel Chen]

On Sat, May 7, 2011 at 12:08 AM, Marti Martinson
<arthur.martinson at verizon.net> wrote:
> DVDs playback would slow to a crawl; now they simply have stopped
> playing. Audio CDs have no problem.

[etc.]

The symptoms you described read a lot like physical damage. Have you
been able to complete a pass of memtest from the GRUB menu?

Cheers,
-Dan

>
> Hulu and Fancast slow to a crawl (maxing out CPU at 100%) BUT if I watch
> France24 or AlJazeera (wwitv.com) news videos (youtube, too) they are
> OK. BBC radio plays fine.
>
> BOINC never finishes; in fact, the time to finish counter INCREASES. I
> had it set at CPU of 30% for almost 1.5 years with no previous problems.
>
> ClamTK rebooted my box once while running; the check never finished.
>
> ClamTk just stopped and exited, about 60% done; check never finished.
>
> ClamTK just stopped but did NOT exit, about 95% done; check never
> finished. (Clam also maxed out CPU at 100%.)
>
> Otherwise, after re-booting, the piddly things I do (email, OpenOffice,
> text editing, creating PDFs, some web vids, etc.) are OK.
>
> It's just that since I run a VERY standard 10.04 install (only 5 apps of
> my own adding) I just find it curious.
>
> My little Lubuntu mini-itx PC has the latest 11.04. DVDs won't play
> anyway, but hulu and fancast do not slow to a crawl. I haven't added
> ClamTK yet.
>
> Marti
>
> PS I ALWAYS keep up to date via Update Manager.....
>
>
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