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Re: Problems with Ubuntu 9.04 64bit - Oh really? Could it be?

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Think of the millions more PCs running Windows that can only see 3.1GB

of 4, 6 or 8GB!

 

 

Bill Yanaire wrote:

> Problems with Ubuntu 9.04 64bit

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> Hi I had a dual boot of ubuntu 8.10 64 and windows xp 32 for quite

> sometime.

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> I upgraded my RAM from 2GB to 4GB and then the problems started. Half

> the times my system did not boot properly, I had problems with grub and

> even if the desktop came up there are many problem and the system

> crashed quite often. Then i realised i hav to increase my swap space and

> reconfigure the installation.

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> I completely removed 8.10 and installed a fresh copy of ubuntu 9.04

> 64bit with increased swap space. The installation did not go smooth the

> first two times. The third time however it went all the way and i can

> see the desktop and my system is up and running.

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> Now, I still have some problems left some of which are as follows:

> 1. Firefox is not running after i upgraded the kernel.

> 2. I cannot install somepackages as it always shows some problems as

> archive not opened or something like that.

> 3. I installed edubuntu and after that the situation became worse, every

> now and then it shows some filesystems errors while booting and i have

> to run fsck and after this it boots up.

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> Any idea why all this is happening??? and possible solutions?

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