[CoLoCo] Inconsistencies

[Michael "TheZorch" Haney]

Doesn't the Ubuntu install/Live CD have a memory test program?  I would 
suggest running it on the computer you are having problems with.  I was 
having weird issues in Windows and Ubuntu until I used that program and 
discovered one of my DIMMs was going bad.

Kenneth D. Weinert wrote:
> That's what's driving me nuts at the moment. I have 3 installs of
> Ubuntu, all the latest version and they're all up to date.
>
> Let's call them L, A, and B, shall we?
>
> On L and A, the Gimp works fine. B always hangs when trying to
> instantiate the xsane plugin.
>
> One L and B I can directly run mono programs. On A I have to use the
> 'mono' command to run them.
>
> On L and A I have indications in the Workspace Switcher what's running
> in which desktop (the icon shows). On B they're always blank, except the
> current one and something that needs attention (for example, if I click
> on a link in an email, the switcher window with firefox in it will show
> the firefox icon. Once I go to that desktop and leave, the icon once
> again disappears.
>
> A was a fresh install - a conversion from Gentoo (the last holdout :), L
> and B were upgrades from Feisty.
>
> It's just odd. I suppose it *might* have something to do with hardware,
> but that doesn't really seem to likely to me.
>
>   


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