I hope that somebody can help me out with this, but it is a little non-specific.
I've had Kubuntu installed since the last flight of Dapper Beta, and installed all of the upgrades since then via the Adept Update Manager (or whatever it's called). From the outset it has been somewhat unstable and I've had to pkill Firefox, in particular, almost every session.
The end appears to have arrived as the instability has built up and up until, just now, I've found that I can't get past the logon screen. When I put in my password the screen goes blank, then returns to the logon screen again. I've rebooted, but it's no good.
I'm sure that I can recover my data with the live CD or Knoppix, but it would be nice to have some help with the more general issue. Any ideas? Of course a complete reinstall might help, but it shouldn't really be necessary should it? I installed Kubuntu onto a 10Gb clean partition, with a 2Gb swap (I have 512Mb RAM), next to my XP partition and a FAT32 partition for Kubuntu/XP file exchanging.
I'm running a Pentium 4 530 on an Abit AG8 3rd Eye motherboard, with a 120GB Seagate Barracuda SATA and an Asus Radeon X600XT/TD 128MB PCI-E. I've used Ubuntu on and off since Breezy on this computer, but this is my first sustained effort with Kubuntu (which I love, other than the instability).
Any ideas gratefully received. Thanks in advance.
I've had Kubuntu installed since the last flight of Dapper Beta, and installed all of the upgrades since then via the Adept Update Manager (or whatever it's called). From the outset it has been somewhat unstable and I've had to pkill Firefox, in particular, almost every session.
The end appears to have arrived as the instability has built up and up until, just now, I've found that I can't get past the logon screen. When I put in my password the screen goes blank, then returns to the logon screen again. I've rebooted, but it's no good.
I'm sure that I can recover my data with the live CD or Knoppix, but it would be nice to have some help with the more general issue. Any ideas? Of course a complete reinstall might help, but it shouldn't really be necessary should it? I installed Kubuntu onto a 10Gb clean partition, with a 2Gb swap (I have 512Mb RAM), next to my XP partition and a FAT32 partition for Kubuntu/XP file exchanging.
I'm running a Pentium 4 530 on an Abit AG8 3rd Eye motherboard, with a 120GB Seagate Barracuda SATA and an Asus Radeon X600XT/TD 128MB PCI-E. I've used Ubuntu on and off since Breezy on this computer, but this is my first sustained effort with Kubuntu (which I love, other than the instability).
Any ideas gratefully received. Thanks in advance.
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