Ubuntu has been hanging/locking up lately. It reports CPU usage as 100% and then refuses to respond after that. It is also not task-specific; it has happened while using Firefox, playing a game, and using Dia to draw a diagram. Other users have commented on this problem and offered solutions on the Ubuntu support forums.
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Entries from March 2006
March 23, 2006
Drat.
March 15, 2006
How to install packages using apt-get and dpkg
Here is a useful link explaining how to install packages, in plain English!
Sometimes there are packages I cannot find in the repositories I have enabled in Synaptic Package Manager, so I download the .deb file from the author’s website. However I do not know how to proceed from there. This link tells you what to [...]
March 8, 2006
Progress Report: 1 month after installation
Well, so it’s been at least a month after I’ve installed Ubuntu and began working with it to do my work, and unfortunately I must admit that whatever I am doing in Ubuntu now, I can do it as well in Windows, and perhaps the converse is true (with the exception of a few codecs [...]
March 5, 2006
I don’t believe I did this.
While installing packages, I looked at the output in the terminal and, worried by some lines of text, highlighted them with the mouse and wanted to copy and paste them in the text editor. So I pressed Ctrl-C and the process terminated. I re-installed the packages.