[ELECTRON] Crazy Ubuntu.

[Martin McGrath]

John,

It could be that an update to either the window manager (Unity) or the
driver for your graphics card is causing this problem. Installing an
alternate such as Xubuntu will determine which is at fault since it'll want
to update your graphics driver also, but the window manager is different.
Without further details of what the error message actually was this process
of elimination will help determine what if it's a window manager or driver
problem.

Thanks

Martin

On 22 March 2013 09:12, JOHN COUZIN <john.c.at95 at btinternet.com> wrote:

> Hi Martin,
>                another thought on my crazy Ubuntu. Why would it work fine
> when I download it and then go crazy after the first update is loaded. This
> is what has been happening each time I have tried to re-install?    John.
>
>
>
>
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>  From: Martin McGrath <mcgrath.martin at gmail.com>
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> Subject: Re: [ELECTRON] Crazy Ubuntu.
>
> John,
>
> You say Ubuntu reports a system error but don't say what it is. Perhaps if
> you can provide this someone can advise further.
>
> It certainly sounds like it's having weird graphics problems, though if
> you're not experiencing similar problems when running Windows this suggests
> software rather than hardware. In recent releases the standard Ubuntu
> distribution has made a lot of changes to the windows manager. If you have
> the time check out Xubuntu ( http://xubuntu.org/), it doesn't require a 3D
> graphics card and is lighter on resources while maintaining features like
> the Software center/app store etc.
>
> Cheers
>
> Martin
> On Mar 21, 2013 11:53 PM, "JOHN COUZIN" <john.c.at95 at btinternet.com>
> wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >     I'm looking for a bit of help. I have been using Ubuntu for about a
> > year now and found it great. However this week it suddenly went haywire,
> it
> > froze, words disappeared, the screen broke up, images distorted, and
> > sometimes I ended up with the screen split diagonally with a line across
> > from corner to corner. I kept getting messages stating that Ubuntu had a
> > system error, reported the error but it kept on coming with the same
> > message. I have uninstalled it about six or seven times and re-installed
> > alternating between 12.04 and 12.1 systems from the Ubuntu download page.
> > They both work fine until the first updates come through and after the
> > update, it is back to the banana antics. I have also got windows on the
> > computer, but as I have said everything worked fine for about a year. Any
> > ideas, before I go crazy.    John.
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