Spooky behaviour with Ubuntu 24.04.x

[Sorin Srbu]

On tor, 2025-03-13 at 04:42 +0800, Bret Busby wrote:
> On 13/3/25 03:27, Ian Bruntlett wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > I've been experiencing failures with Ubuntu 24.04.2.
> > 
> > In particular, when updating from 22.04.x to 24.04.x - twice systems 
> > have been left in a state where 24.04.x had to be re-installed from 
> > scratch. I made copious handwritten notes.
> > 
> > This week, I attempted to update a Lenovo ThinkPad x201 laptop from 
> > Ubuntu 23.10 to 24.04.2 using the "Software Updater" programme. After 
> > the update, the system would boot but would more or less immediately 
> > freeze after login. I ran memtest86+ and it confirmed that the RAM is OK.
> > 
> > I thought it could be an Wayland / X Windows problem so I tried setting 
> > the system to use "ubuntu-Xorg" when logging in but it still crashed. I 
> > tried different memory sticks and different USB ports.
> > 
> > At my wit's end, I tried installing Debian 11.10 amd64. The system 
> > paused excessively for the "Scanning the Mirror" screen so I decided to 
> > try Ubuntu 24.04.1 and it crashed.
> > 
> > Eventually I installed Debian 12.9.0 amd64 and it installed and ran 
> > perfectly.
> > 
> > 
> > 
> Have you considered upgrading your RAM on the Thinkpad?

Hello all,

I second that. Had general weirdness going on, on my work laptop. It
originally had 8 GB RAM. Upping it to 32 GB RAM (30 GB usable) made all
problems just go away.

Using KDE, which supposedly is pretty good at using the available
resources, as compared to eg Gnome.

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OS: Ubuntu 24.04.2 LTS x86_64
Host: HP ProBook 440 14 inch G9 Notebook PC SBKPF
Kernel: 6.11.0-1009-lowlatency
Uptime: 1 day, 21 hours, 40 mins
Packages: 2849 (dpkg), 23 (snap)
Shell: bash 5.2.21
Resolution: 1920x1080
CPU: 12th Gen Intel i7-1255U (12) @ 4.700GHz
GPU: Intel Alder Lake-UP3 GT2 [Iris Xe Graphics]
Memory: 1056MiB / 31288MiB


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