This Thunderbird issue is doing my head in! It now tells me I have emails that don't exist! I suppose asking it to run Ubuntu could be taxing the hardware and causing an overheat. I'll take a look tomorrow.
On 31 May 2014 21:11, Colin Law <[email protected]> wrote: > On 31 May 2014 08:44, Gareth France <[email protected]> wrote: > > Sorry for the late reply guys. For some reason as yet unexplained > > Thunderbird decided to tell me I had unread emails but wouldn't display > > them! It's not running slowly at all, it just freezes at random points > > forcing you to power-cycle. I will be taking another look at it later on > > today. I may try a re-install with one of the other flavours, we'll see. > > Do you mean that the machine is absolutely frozen? No mouse, > Ctrl+Alt+F1 does nothing, etc? > Have a look in /var/log/syslog to see if there are any messages before > the freeze. > If nothing there then it could well be a hardware issue, overheating > possibly, or PSU for example. Try booting into memtest and leave it > running for a few hours and see if it freezes then or shows errors. > > Colin > > > > > > > On 30 May 2014 15:47, Pete Smout <[email protected]> wrote: > >> > >> > >> On May 30, 2014 9:57 AM, "George DiceGeorge" <[email protected]> > >> wrote: > >> > > >> > as its an older machine try xubuntu? > >> > http://xubuntu.org/getxubuntu/ > >> > [g] > >> > > >> > > >> > -----Original Message----- From: Gareth France Sent: Friday, 30 May, > >> > 2014 07:07 To: UK Ubuntu Talk Subject: [ubuntu-uk] Constant crashing > >> > I recently installed Ubuntu on a friends computer as it was running > >> > painfully slowly with Windows. It is an older machine and xxxxxxxxxx > >> > > >> > > >> > -- > >> > [email protected] > >> > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk > >> > https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/ > >> > >> Hi, > >> > >> On that age of machine I would consider lubuntu or xubuntu or even > >> crunchbang (not a *buntu but Debian based lightweight Openbox os, hope I > >> don't break any list rules straying from *buntus) > >> > >> Also look at how much RAM the machine has, it can be picked up for a few > >> pounds now ! > >> > >> Regards > >> > >> Pete S > >> > >> > >> -- > >> [email protected] > >> https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk > >> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/ > >> > > > > > > -- > > [email protected] > > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk > > https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/ > > > > -- > [email protected] > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk > https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/ >
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