Slow ubuntu, deleting previous os

What is slow in particular?

How did you install Ubuntu? Did you use wubi or did you do a true dual boot? I doubt vista is impacting stuff.

Can you give your system spec

Hey,

  After bootup, and i have entered password, opening programs i.e internet, gedit text editor, terminal, are really slow to open.

thanks
Joe

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Can you give the output of:

sudo lshw -C display; lsb_release -a

Thanks

Hey,

 I used wubi, the things that are slow are programmes opening after the password login, your prob going to laugh at this one but as im new to ubuntu i am not positive about running system spec, i tried something of a forum a moment ago but i got
E: dpkg was interrupted, you must manually run 'sudo dpkg --configure -a' to correct the problem.

and not sure if i want to do this as i was running a command which involved a download.

eeeeeeek

Thanks for the command, below is what printed,

   description: VGA compatible controller
       product: RS480 [Radeon Xpress 200G Series]
       vendor: ATI Technologies Inc
       physical id: 5
       bus info: pci@0000:01:05.0
       version: 00
       width: 32 bits
       clock: 66MHz
       capabilities: pm bus_master cap_list rom
       configuration: driver=radeon latency=64 mingnt=8
       resources: irq:17 memory:d0000000-dfffffff(prefetchable) ioport:ef00(size=256) memory:fddf0000-fddfffff memory:fdd00000-fdd1ffff(prefetchable)
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description: Ubuntu 10.04 LTS
Release: 10.04
Codename: lucid

Yes, this is fine. our system is telling you how to fix the system. Run:

sudo dpkg --configure -a; sudo apt-get -f install

Your wubi is probably sow as wubi installs to the NTFS is a RUBBISH filesystem and VERY prone to fragmentation. This fragmentation will directly knock onto your wubi install as the "drive" you install to is an image file. A true Linux system does not defragment very muich at all and ext3 and ext4 are not possible to even be defragged.

I suggest you reboot into Windows and defrag you NTFS. This should make things a lot nicer. You still havent given the output of the command I asked for.

Cool the right driver is being used for VGA as ATi dont support your card with their proprietary driver.

Hey i used the command you gave my and the following printed do i press y, i take it i do just thought you could see if it has done the right thing.

Setting up lib32v4l-0 (0.6.4-1ubuntu1) ...

Setting up lib32asound2 (1.0.22-0ubuntu7) ...

Setting up lib32gcc1 (1:4.4.3-4ubuntu5) ...

Setting up lib32z1 (1:1.2.3.3.dfsg-15ubuntu1) ...

Setting up libc-dev-bin (2.11.1-0ubuntu7.2) ...
Setting up lib32bz2-1.0 (1.0.5-4) ...

Setting up lib32ncurses5 (5.7+20090803-2ubuntu3) ...

Setting up lib32stdc++6 (4.4.3-4ubuntu5) ...

Setting up libc6-dev (2.11.1-0ubuntu7.2) ...
Processing triggers for libc-bin ...
ldconfig deferred processing now taking place
/sbin/ldconfig.real: file /usr/lib32/libgsl.so.0.14.0.dpkg-new is truncated

Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following extra packages will be installed:
  ia32-libs
The following packages will be upgraded:
  ia32-libs
1 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 235 not upgraded.
1 not fully installed or removed.
Need to get 36.6MB of archives.
After this operation, 159MB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]?

thanks
Joe

Hey i used the command you gave my and the following printed do i press y, i take it i do just thought you could see if it has done the right thing.

Setting up lib32v4l-0 (0.6.4-1ubuntu1) ...

Setting up lib32asound2 (1.0.22-0ubuntu7) ...

Setting up lib32gcc1 (1:4.4.3-4ubuntu5) ...

Setting up lib32z1 (1:1.2.3.3.dfsg-15ubuntu1) ...

Setting up libc-dev-bin (2.11.1-0ubuntu7.2) ...
Setting up lib32bz2-1.0 (1.0.5-4) ...

Setting up lib32ncurses5 (5.7+20090803-2ubuntu3) ...

Setting up lib32stdc++6 (4.4.3-4ubuntu5) ...

Setting up libc6-dev (2.11.1-0ubuntu7.2) ...
Processing triggers for libc-bin ...
ldconfig deferred processing now taking place
/sbin/ldconfig.real: file /usr/lib32/libgsl.so.0.14.0.dpkg-new is truncated

Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following extra packages will be installed:
  ia32-libs
The following packages will be upgraded:
  ia32-libs
1 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 235 not upgraded.
1 not fully installed or removed.
Need to get 36.6MB of archives.
After this operation, 159MB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]?

thanks
Joe

Say yes, it will upgrade the system further. You should also run:

sudo apt-get update; sudo apt-get -y upgrade

If it runs through then you are all good.

hey im running the second one now, and it seems to be going well so far, after this has run im going to reboot and see if its improved, before i installed ubuntu i completly reformatted and defragged the comp, and ive been using wubi for 3 weeks or so now, do you think i will still need to go into the windows boot and defrag nfts

cheers

joe

It will help, ntfs is bloody awful and will affect seek times for data in the wubi image. If you are going to reinstall ubuntu in wubi again then a defrag will help, if you are going to native install then a defrag is needed anyway. If you intend to dual boot properly then make sure your backups are recent incase of catastrophe

I suggest you to install Ubuntu NOT using Wubi.

If you have installed Ubuntu via Wubi please uninstall it read
http://wubi-installer.org/faq.php and https://wiki.ubuntu.com/WubiGuide

Installing Ubuntu using Wubi make Ubuntu less robust and all problems that you will have to Windows can be affect your Ubuntu partition file.

Please note that install Ubuntu using Wubi isn't the best you can do, nothing wrong, but installing a secure operative system Ubuntu into an
unsecure operative system using Wubi is not the better choice you can do: problems that come in Windows might be damage your Ubuntu
installation.

Wubi does not install Ubuntu directly to its own partition.
Wubi install Ubuntu into a big file as an image file on the NTFS partition.

So you are free to try Ubuntu in this way but if you want perform a
regular Ubuntu dual boot mode installation, to have Ubuntu partitions
isolated from Windows partitions: please made a new question.

Here more detail: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wubi_(Ubuntu_installer)

I strongly suggest you to install Ubuntu+Windows in dual mode creating a real Ubuntu ext3 or ext4 partition.
In this mode you can use Ubuntu and Windows ad usual and then using installed Ubuntu you can save or repair damaged (due viruses or other issue) Windows partitions data.

- Here the steps to install Ubuntu 10.04 https://help.ubuntu.com/community/GraphicalInstall

Is very easy to install, if you need info please ask.

Welcome to Ubuntu

Here some general note on install Ubuntu and howto to get a good ubuntu iso cd image (.iso) to burn on a cd:

The main ubuntu site is this: www.ubuntu.com and the download location is this
http://www.ubuntu.com/desktop/get-ubuntu/download

Ubuntu prerequisites: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Installation/SystemRequirements
Ubuntu 10.04 release notes: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/LucidLynx/ReleaseNotes

1) please download the 700 mb file http://www.ubuntu.com/desktop/get-ubuntu/download simply press on download button
To avoid download errors download the desired ubuntu iso install cd image using the torrent protocol.

- if you are using Windows please install a torrent client i suggest you http://deluge-torrent.org/
and download the iso using a .torrent link from here:
http://releases.ubuntu.com/10.04/ubuntu-10.04-desktop-i386.iso.torrent

2) PLEASE BE SURE TO CHECK the md5sum of downloaded file to be sure it have no error https://help.ubuntu.com/community/HowToMD5SUM
Only if the md5sum number match with this: http://releases.ubuntu.com/10.04/MD5SUMS go to the next steps.

3) burn the iso image onto a cd, to do it install and use http://infrarecorder.org/?page_id=5 burn the cd at lower speed you can do and activate the data verify

4) insert the self made install cd into your pc cdrom drive and reboot your pc. YOU MUST NOT SEE Windows starting and you can try Ubuntu from cdrom and then install it

If you have trouble with installation (the system freeze or you can't complete it) be sure to read the above suggestions, then:

1.a ) Please boot entirely (you must not see windows starting) from Ubuntu live install cd and when the system start to boot from cd you will see two bottom screen icons (keyboard and man inside circle ) please press space (choose your desired language) then a screen textual center menu will appear to you with this items in it:

Try Ubuntu without installing
Install Ubuntu
Check disc for defects
Test memory
Boot from first hard disk

Please select "Check disc for defects" and press enter to test if your cd-driver can read in a good way the live install cd... or if the install cd have some defective file in it.
Then please also perform a Test memory to be sure your pc RAM memory have not any issue

If you get a blank screen at boot after install or booting from the Ubuntu install cd please read:

http://www.ubuntugeek.com/how-to-fix-ubuntu-10-04-lts-lucid-blank-screen-at-startup.html

---- Trouble with intel8xxx graphic cards:

please try this: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/X/Bugs/Lucidi8xxFreezes

hey, i got to
unpacking replacement humanity-icon theme and system crashed
the gui now looks different but not sure how much i missed due to crashing.
thanks
joe
should i just do it again

Sounds logiical. Can you also expand on "crash"

Thanks

yer, mouse not working no response from keyboard, listened to the tower couldnt hear anything i.e disk spinning,

so should i run it again??? i know you prob sick of this conversation by now appreciate the help

i keep getting the it was interuppted message in that screen and not sure how to manually fix ;'(

Thanks actionparsnip, that solved my question.