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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 05/21/2013 01:58 AM, Hannes Coetzee
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, May 20, 2013 at 10:35 PM,
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<div text="#000000" bgcolor="#FFFFFF"> Hi All, <br>
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I'm running 3 computers, each with a different version
of Ubuntu - namely 12.04, 12.10 & 13.04. While in
the past, I've experienced a problem here and there on
a specific version after an update, this is the first
time that I'm experiencing the same problems across
the board on all 3 machines. This would seem to
indicate that there's something fundamentally wrong
somewhere.<br>
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The problems are:<br>
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<li>Nautilus hangs in the middle of copying/moving
files to/from either USB drives or over my LAN.
Copying just stops, and the only way to get rid of
the copy dialogue is to restart the PC. No error
message, nothing - just stops.</li>
<li>Libre Office (running different versions on all
these machines) hanging at increasingly shortening
intervals, until it becomes unusable. The only way
to get Libre Office to load again after a hangup,
is to restart the machine. Sometimes even that
doesn't work.</li>
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Is anybody else experiencing any of this? As I say, if
it was just one machine, I'd blame the machine, but
its all 3, and all 3 Ubuntu versions, and all began
directly after the last major update a few days ago.<br>
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Any assistance welcome.<br>
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Thanks.<br>
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Step one to solve just about any Linux issue - open terminal ->
enter command (libreoffice or nautilus) -> put the window
somewhere where you can see the terminal output and keep an eye on
it. Most of the times the reason for the crash or hang will be
displayed in terminal, then Google the message.<br>
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Do you open files from a server via NFS or SMB? Do you mount NFS
or SMB shares locally? Does libreoffice and nautilus crash because
it can't access the network? Does it crash when you copy network
to USB or local HD to USB? Do you use a local repo to update all
the machines or do they update individually? <br>
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Hannes<br>
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Hi Hannes, <br>
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I'll give the terminal watch a go. Thanks.<br>
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I do open files on other the other PCs on my LAN, and as said, they
are networked via samba. I'm afraid I don't really know what you
mean by "Do you mount NFS or SMB shares locally?". Each PC on the
LAN has shared folders that can be accessed by the others on the
LAN. Crashes occur when copying over LAN HDD -> HDD, HDD ->
USB, LAN -> HDD, LAN -> USB - basically any and all
configurations. All machines update independently via the Internet.<br>
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Robin<br>
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