Dapper flight 5 issues

[C Hamel]

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On Thursday 23 March 2006 00:11, Santanu Chatterjee wrote:
> Hi Everybody,
>
> I installed dapper flight 5 yesterday. There were of course
> some minor glitches (eg. saying '0s remaining' when hundreds
> of packages were still remaining to be installed).
>
> However, the most important thing for me was, I found that it
> now installs all the packages from the CD at one go, instead
> of rebooting like in breezy. Is it going to be the same in the
> final version? This is going to be a problem in my case. It so
> happened that while trying to install dapper, during the package
> installation phase (after the base system was installed), my
> computer somehow got overheated and shut down ( I have no idea
> why this happens, neither do the guys at the computer repair shop.
> The smps, fan, and the processor seems to be ok). The next time
> I had to start from scratch again, although the base system had
> been installed. This time too, the same thing happened. I succeded
> only in my third attempt.
>
> The point is, I think if things are to be installed at one go, there
> should be some kind of state information saved so that in situations
> like in my case, the installation should continue from where it got
> terminated (or better, provide this facility as an option).
> What do you think?
>
> Anyway, after everything finally got installed, the new GNOME
> was absolutely fantastic. I especially liked the deskbar applet.
> Finally, the default theme rocks as far as I am concerned.
>
> However, evince crashed everytime I dragged my mouse over a
> displayed PDF page. If others have faced the same thing, I can
> submit a bug report (at ubuntu or evince bugzilla?).
>
> After this frustrating installation phase, I was not exactly very
> happy. But the mdzzzzzz.ogg video in the Examples folder of
> my Home directory made me realize that the developers are
> human after all, and they are working really hard to bring us this
> excellent Ubuntu distribution. Also, the wallpapers were cool.
>
> So, thank you, Ubuntu developers. Great job with dapper. Just
> a bit of polish and some bug fixes will make this the best distro
> I have ever used.
>
> Regards,
> Santanu
I had the same problem on my notebook and, assuming you have a notebook, you 
may want to blow out the cooling fan ports to see if any dust bunnies come 
running.  After I did that I had no more overheating probs.

FWIW...
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