seems there is a fair bit of crashing going on with 8.04.<br><br>Tested ubuntu 8.04 AND LinuxMint 5 (based on ubuntu 8.04) and both are doing wierd things (and crashes) that wasnt happening in the earlier version<br>Wont be upgrading mrs computer (currently linuxmint and stable)<br><br><b><i>Kai <vk6ksj@westnet.com.au></i></b> wrote:<blockquote class="replbq" style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px;"> 'morning guys, girls and those who aren't sure...<br><br>I've been running Ubuntu 8.04 Beta since it was released on Ubuntu's <br>website, my system has been progressively auto-updating itself so it's <br>now updated all the libraries and stuff and now tells me it's Ubuntu <br>8.04, ie no Beta coding on here anymore.<br><br>I run the AMD64 release, my cousin who I live with runs the i386 <br>release. I thought there may be something to do with running the Beta <br>version, X/GDM would crash sporadically, Pidgin would also crash
<br>sporadically and, through trial and error I think I figured out there <br>may be various website which have code which GDM/X doesn't like, causes <br>X to crash back to shell...I tried startx again a few times but nothing <br>fully initialised and I only end up with a dark grey screen, escaping <br>out of X didn't work so a reset was required.<br><br>I know I have some bad sectors on my secondary SATA drive, I figured <br>that may be a cause for the random crashes, however my cousin has the <br>same problem. As mentioned he's running the i386 release and totally <br>different hardware overall, but he's experiencing similar problems.<br><br>I was thinking maybe when the OS updated itself from the Beta -> Full <br>release code the problems may have been resolved...<br><br>My cousins converted himself from Vista to Ubuntu after seeing me using <br>it and saying "what's that ?! I thought I thought Linux was too hard to <br>use....etc", I initially gave him the Live CD
and although that was good <br>for a first glimpse it doesn't give an idea of true reaction time for <br>programs to open and all that. Anyway, got the all clear from his old <br>man and we have Ubuntu dual booting with Vista - he says he likes Ubuntu <br>better than Vista... (but his old man's a Windows man, so better not say <br>it too loudly :P )<br><br>I've downloaded the full ISO from 3FL, various websites say if your <br>machine is still running Beta code you'll be prompted to upgrade, I have <br>no such prompts and System -> About Ubuntu doesn't mention anything <br>about Beta, so I'm guessing she's auto updated to full release.<br><br>I've googled around and haven't really found anything that relates to <br>our problems but hey, maybe the answers staring me in the face or maybe <br>I'm not quite using the right search terms but if anyone has any <br>feedback or suggestions I'm all
ears.<br><br>Cheers<br>Kai<br>_______________________________________________<br>PLUG discussion list: plug@plug.org.au<br>http://www.plug.org.au/mailman/listinfo/plug<br>Committee e-mail: committee@plug.linux.org.au<br></blockquote><br><p>