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Occasional 'crashes' of Ubuntu 10.04/Wubi

Asked by nordsternpark

I have installed Ubuntu 10.04 successfully under Wubi on an older PC ( 1 GB main memory, 80 GB Harddisk, Windows XP ).
My Experience: System works fast, but sometimes 'crashes' ( means: black monitor, no response to keyboard ). Two times it occured during surfing with Firefox. At the last time, when turning PC soft off , Ubuntu screen appeared, so the system worked in the background.
Also, two times I had to repeat the booting process. ( On the same PC I very often used live DVDs with Ubutu 9.04 without any problems.
Also the live DVD 10.04 worked, but I have little experience with. ) After the first two crashes I increased the swap file ( using the Wubi instructions ), but later the third crash happened.
Question: Are there similar 'crashes' of Ubuntu 10.04 under Wubi reported ?

Additional Information: 10.04 as a live System on a USB Stick ( on a new PC ) as well as 10.04 as a guest system under Windows 7 with VmWarePlayer work without problems

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bcbc (bcbc) said : 		#1

It sounds more likely a hardware/driver compatibility issue with 10.04 rather than an issue than wubi specifically. You might be able to find more info by searching for known issues with your graphics card, or your computer model. If anyone else had the same issue there may be a documented workaround. Or if you can't find anything feel free to post the info back here as well.

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nordsternpark (ilse-klara) said : 		#2

Thank you for your suggestion.
If you are right that the new version 10.04 in connection with my hardware is the cause of the failures then
there should be problems too with the 10.04 live DVD. I shall check this.
Certain occasional booting problems seem to have another reason.
Anyway I could still use Ubuntu 9.04 live DVD on that PC.