I installed 16.04 on a hand-me-down laptop, because I need to support another system that is on 16.04 and it is easier for me to have an identical system I installed 16.04, because later versions do not allow remote control using remmina (# 1790251, 1790249 & 1741027). System is a 8Gb laptop with a 480Mb ssd. Installer created a swap of 976Mb. Install version was 16.04.5. (Note that my DVD with 16.04.3 creates a swap of appropriate size.)
The system will hang when used heavily, but does recover. However, contrary to earlier comments, rebooting during such a 'freeze' is *not* guaranteed safe. On my system it has multiple times corrupted the file system which caused boot to fail and which required a run of "fsck /dev/sda1". After I followed instructions found on help.ubuntu.com/community/SwapFaq, I now have an 8.3Gb swap and the system does not hang any more. I spent two weeks before I realized that the problem was with the swap size. In my opinion it is bad to change something as dramatic as swap-size. The installer should ask questions and give options. *** This is not an "opinion" and consequently I have re-opened it *** -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1767299 Title: Ubuntu 18.04 Installer creates swap partition too small To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/partman-auto/+bug/1767299/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
