Fatal Muon Crash

[NickOz]

VINNY
1. The computer I'm using is a small Compaq Pressario laptop. Processor speed 1,800, total physical memory 1.35GiB, free physical memory 591MiB. 40GiB HDD
2.Thanks, now in Favourites
3. Agreed
4. updated and upgraded - all current, nothing to change.

thanks

[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

[Teunis]

Yes you have about as much swap as RAM.
And yes at these values you could exhaust it causing serious issues.
So increasing the swap would be good for stability, inserting an USB thumb drive (or SD card if a slot is available) and assigning it to swap might be a solution.

About your mouse issues, have you tried using a different one?

[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?

[Teunis]

http://askubuntu.com/questions/174579/how-do-i-use-zram

zram is an easy to try option.
Using an USB stick as an additional (swap) drive should in my experience not draw too much current and thus cause undesirable heating but as they say YMMV.
Reading back through this head I see you mentioned USB1.0 if that's what this little machine has it would be pretty much useless for a speed boost.

How about a pcmcia/express card slot being available, or as I did replace the optical drive by a caddy with an extra HD?

[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

[Teunis]

I always set my (US) keyboard to US-International. An accented letter is thus done with first the accent, next the letter below it, the ' in I'll is done the same way, in this case the 'letter' is a space.
Even on the companies computer that came with a UK keyboard I set US-Intl, that way only two keys are mislabelled but at least I have the dead keys available.
In Kubuntu there's a UK-International option, not so in Windows.