Easy Ubuntu Problems (Brent)

[Brent]

Thanks Glen,

Have already done that and RAM checks out fine. Even tested several 
other sticks just to make sure I wasn't replacing bad with bad but no 
such luck.

Currently reading through help.ubuntu.com/community checking software 
installation, repositories and any other topic that seems useful.

The one machine in particular that gives the most trouble is a Dell 
Dimension 4100. Is there anything special or proprietary about this box 
that I should know about?

Brent

Glen Merrick wrote:

>Two things you should check.  Your CD may have gone bad (not likely) or
>those two computers could have bad ram.  On the Ubuntu Live 6.10 CD there is
>an option to check the ram on the computer.  Run this utility with only 1
>stick in at a time to identify a bad ram stick.
>
>Glen Merrick
>Electronic Technologist
>Eastern Passage
>Nova Scotia
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>Message: 2
>Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2007 12:50:24 -0700
>From: Brent <brent-hughes at shaw.ca>
>Subject: Wasy Ubuntu Problems
>To: ubuntu-ca at lists.ubuntu.com
>Message-ID: <46018C80.70408 at shaw.ca>
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>Greetings,
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>I am a retired, broken down old audio sales person living in Western Canada.
>For entertainment and education I refurbish older PCs that I then give away
>to those who wouldn't otherwise have computers.
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>I have been installing Ubuntu 6.06LTS and Kubuntu 6.06 as my OS of choice
>and have not had any real issues until lately when Easy Ubuntu failed to
>install on two machines I have on the bench. I had been using the Deb
>package supplied by the Ubuntu team to do the installs but it no longer
>works. Doing a manual install fails to locate several packages on various
>repositories. Switching to 6.10 and using SVN gives me Berkley DB errors and
>"failure to allocate memory" errors.
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>Both machines are PIIIs with 384 (450mHz) and 512 (1.0gHz) of memory. 
>Increasing the swap file size and adding more ram does not prevent these
>errors either. Both work fine for all other applications except for
>multimedia, hence the use of Easy Ubuntu.
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>Is there a problem with  Easy Ubuntu that I'm missing? Has it been suspended
>and is no longer available? I know there are legal issues in the US with
>respect to non-free codecs but does that apply here? There seems to be
>additional information at freecontrib.org but it's all in French but that is
>not my second language (I know, how un-Canadian is that?)
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>I am fairly new to Linux and am still learning so detailed assistance would
>be the best but I can muddle through generalized help too. Any and all help
>would be greatly appreciated.
>
>Brent
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>ps, forgive the large font, I am legally blind and bigger is always better.
>B
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