14.04 freezes after upgrade

[Daniel Anderson]

On 11/08/2014 03:51 AM, Colin Law wrote:
> On 8 November 2014 01:14, Phil G <ssc1861 at verizon.net> wrote:
>> On Wed, Nov 5, 2014 at 8:48 PM, Linda <haniganwork at earthlink.net> wrote:
>>>
>>> Thanks for the suggestion to run Firefox from terminal. I don't have
>>> access to the machine tonight, but I will try that.
>>> I upgraded from 12.04 LTS to 14.04 LTS and it had gnome flashback with
>>> Compriz and gnome flashback with Meta City as options.
>>> Since a few of the machines I run are quite old they do not like unity and
>>> compriz but ran fine with gnome classic in 12.04 so
>>> I just made them all that way. Plus honestly I prefer gnome classic and
>>> most of my users do not like change. This was my trial run
>>> for doing upgrades instead of clean installs it saves a lot of time. I've
>>> always just done clean installs before to move to a new LTS version.
>>>                        Linda
>>>
>>>
>> I experience the same with Firefox and Chrome.  I first installed Ubuntu
>> Gnome 14.04LTS, and thought the problem was with Ubuntu Gnome.  So I
>> reinstalled Ubuntu 14.04 LTS and then installed Gnome (because I like gnome
>> better than unity.)  I experience the same problem with the browsers.
>>
>> It appears to eventually run out of memory and/or connections.  Pages with a
>> lot of ads or other connections (like TV news sites) seem to the main
>> culprits.  The disk activity light stays solid.  Sometimes when this
>> happens, I can wait and eventually get the "page isn't responding" message
>> with the option to kill it (this is in Chrome.)  However, as soon as the
>> error box displays, the disk activity light goes off and the computer has
>> available resources.  Usually, that does not happen.  Once it locks up, it
>> is locked up for good and no way to recover save hard booting.
> How much RAM have you got?
>
> Colin
>
I had this problem on two machines, adding ram to total 4 gig fixed it.