Fatal Muon Crash

[vinnywright]

that is a bit of a limited amount of RAM but should be ok ,,,,,,,did you make a swap partition during the install ?

VINNY

[NickOz]

No I didn´t.
I did fdisk -l which came up with nothing??

[vinnywright]

No I didn´t.
I did fdisk -l which came up with nothing??

fdisk -l will come up with nothing ,

vinny@vinny-HP-G62:~$ fdisk -l
vinny@vinny-HP-G62:~$

as you do not own the drives , root dose , so

vinny@vinny-HP-G62:~$ sudo fdisk -l
[sudo] password for vinny:

Disk /dev/sda: 500.1 GB, 500107862016 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 60801 cylinders, total 976773168 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0xdd97eece

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 63 8193149 4096543+ 82 Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/sda2 * 8193150 50813594 21310222+ 83 Linux
/dev/sda3 50813595 461933009 205559707+ 83 Linux
/dev/sda4 461933071 976768064 257417497 5 Extended
/dev/sda5 461933073 523718999 30892963+ 83 Linux
/dev/sda6 523719063 586243979 31262458+ 83 Linux
/dev/sda7 586244043 976768064 195262011 83 Linux
vinny@vinny-HP-G62:~$

shows all

personally I like parted's output a bit better

vinny@vinny-HP-G62:~$ sudo parted -l
Model: ATA WDC WD5000BEVT-6 (scsi)
Disk /dev/sda: 500GB
Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B
Partition Table: msdos

Number Start End Size Type File system Flags
1 32.3kB 4195MB 4195MB primary linux-swap(v1)
2 4195MB 26.0GB 21.8GB primary ext4 boot
3 26.0GB 237GB 210GB primary ext4
4 237GB 500GB 264GB extended
5 237GB 268GB 31.6GB logical ext3
6 268GB 300GB 32.0GB logical ext4
7 300GB 500GB 200GB logical ext4


vinny@vinny-HP-G62:~$

VINNY

[NickOz]

VINNY, Hereś what I got
~$ sudo fdisk -l
[sudo] password for nick:

Disk /dev/sda: 40.0 GB, 40007761920 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 4864 cylinders, total 78140160 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x000b2fde

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 * 2048 75259903 37628928 83 Linux
/dev/sda2 75261950 78139391 1438721 5 Extended
/dev/sda5 75261952 78139391 1438720 82 Linux swap / Solaris
nick@nick-Presario-V2000-EX073PA-ABG:~$ sudo parted -l
Model: ATA HTS424040M9AT00 (scsi)
Disk /dev/sda: 40.0GB
Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B
Partition Table: msdos

Number Start End Size Type File system Flags
1 1049kB 38.5GB 38.5GB primary ext4 boot
2 38.5GB 40.0GB 1473MB extended
5 38.5GB 40.0GB 1473MB logical linux-swap(v1)

[NickOz]

Sorry about the formatting of that last post. I was sending from the Kubuntu box and it was excruciatinly frustrating as the cursor was jumping all over the place. Is that a virus or gremlin in Kubuntu. This now from W7.
It seemed like I did have about 1GiB of swap memory on the HD? Would this be the optimal amount. I think I read somewhere of setting it to 2x RAM? Also does too much swapping take a toll on the HD. For the moment I'l just stick with my current linux machine to get to grips with python using small files.

thanks

[NickOz]

Thanks Teunis. When I get hold of a spare usb without data Iĺl try it. Iǘe noticed that some usb thumb drives run quite warm normally. What about when used as a swap drive with lots of I/O?

I came across mention of zram but someone said itś now part of the linux kernel?

[NickOz]

Iĺl try these options but Im still having trouble with the keyboard as you can see. It takes 2 strokes to get the apostophe eg I´ll, instead of the accented first l in Iĺl. Same for double quotes also tick and tilda - top left on keyboard. Iǘe (I´ve) been into system settings>locale and Input Devices but problem still there. Do you have a suggestion? If not Iĺl start a separate thread. Google indicates this sort of problem has occurred in the past but now?

[jlittle]

...It takes 2 strokes to get the apostophe eg I´ll

That's not an apostrophe (or at least not an ASCII ', U+0027, nor a "punctuation" or "typographical" apostrophe, U+2019, the Unicode recommended one), rather an "ACUTE ACCENT", U+00B4. (Not a COMBINING ACUTE ACCENT, U+0301).

HTH, John Little