Huh, I got something similar on a test machine, but with 8.04.  The same symptoms were happening with KDE 4.1 on a AMD 2200 / 1GB RAM / 64MB Shared Intel Video.  I just formatted and put Kubuntu 8.10 and things seem to be okay.  I know this doesn't help, besides (maybe) indicating that you might try a fresh install.  Upgrading other test machines & VM's, though 512MB is the machine with the least amount of memory.  If no paying clients bug me tomorrow, I might have time to image 8.10 and put back an older 8.04 image and upgrade.  Though I really should put up notes for the Exploration...  We'll see what tomorrow brings.... Best, Rio <div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Nov 1, 2008 at 2:46 PM, Algot Runeman <<a href="mailto:algot.runeman@verizon.net" target="_blank">algot.runeman@verizon.net</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> <div bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#000000"> Remarks about upgrade: I was able to do a Kubuntu upgrade on Thursday night, but am experiencing issues on my Toshiba laptop which has only 256Mb of RAM, though this ran acceptably with Hardy-8.04. I suspect low RAM is part of it, but am getting the following problems: 1) Random restarts  of X server forcing new login 2) Display monitor kicks in to tell me of a new connection. 3) Full boot is so long (RAM?) that the wireless connection doesn't activate on its own, must click on the ath0 connection to get bars. 4) Have just switched down to 800/600 resolution to see if that mitigates the monitor/xserver issues at all. <blockquote type="cite"> <pre>On Sat, Nov 1, 2008 at 10:38 AM, Jerry Feldman <a href="mailto:gaf@blu.org" target="_blank"><gaf@blu.org></a> wrote: </pre> <blockquote type="cite"> <pre>> I've downloaded the ISOs for Ubuntu 8.10 Interepid Ibex for a talk I'm > giving on Thursday. My question is when will it be available for upgrade > through their patch server. </pre> </blockquote> <pre>i would guess its a bandwidth issue as everyone is doing it? </pre> </blockquote> <pre cols="72">-- ------------------------- Algot Runeman 47 Walnut Street, Natick MA 01760 508-655-8399 <a href="mailto:algot.runeman@verizon.net" target="_blank">algot.runeman@verizon.net</a> Web Site: <a href="http://www.runeman.org" target="_blank">http://www.runeman.org</a> Open Source Blog: <a href="http://mosssig.wordpress.com" target="_blank">http://mosssig.wordpress.com</a></pre> </div> -- Ubuntu-us-ma mailing list <a href="mailto:Ubuntu-us-ma@lists.ubuntu.com" target="_blank">Ubuntu-us-ma@lists.ubuntu.com</a> Modify settings or unsubscribe at: <a href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-us-ma" target="_blank">https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-us-ma</a> </blockquote></div>