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right guys, I think I found out something...not sure how critical this is but it might help.I had 2 crashes in the last 20 minutes, one at about 21.24 (UK time) and another one at 21.30.
Now, I...

Hello guys, I thought I'd post my log, it might help somebody to understand what's going on. I can see a lot of errors everywhere and I can see that the nvidia seems to have something to do with it...

Ah, I have found some a testing tool under ubuntu, I thought I'd run the test and I don't seem to have found anything wrong, I am attaching the images of the restults:249019249020249021249022
Also I...

well surely there is got to be an explanation. When I first installed 12.04 a few years ago everything was ok. WHen I re-installed it today, this freeze business started. Now, 3grciii suggested a few...

I don't know I haven't tried 13.10 and to be honest I wouldn't want to, I'd rather fix this version if possible

test run, no errors found (at the bottom it says pass complete no errors, even if it is running again now, I am not sure why)
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What do you guys think I should do now?

ah hang on, I run the memtest from the grub menu where I select what operating system to run. the mem test is running now,I will post the results when it is finished

hi thanks, but I think I might need a hand with all that if that's ok. I downloaded the zip file for memtest86 and in the instructions it says that:

Where do I get the makefile from?
thanks

Hello guys, I have reinstalled ubuntu 12.04 on my dell xps 17.
I have installed it from a bootable USB. Now, the system freezes at random and well, the only alternative is to press the power button...

thanks for your help fantab. I have got to say that the idea of reinstalling everything has crossed my mind already, but then I will have to reinstall everything and that's quite a big put-off...

thanks again fantab. Well, unfortunately it's never easy :-(.
Anyway, I did what you said, run "fix broken packages" in synaptic and at the bottom I had a message saying that all the dependencies...

...the last famous words...
When I attempted to remove the first of the infamous 3 packages procps, when marked for removal in synaptic a message warned me that there are about 200 extra packages...

uhm...it didn't occur to me, sorry!. OK, I closed synaptic and done the whole thing again.
so, first command:

groups: cannot find name for group ID 1001
antobbo@antobbo-xps17-ubuntu:~$ sudo dpkg...

Ah sorry, as a little addendum, I have noticed something interesting. When I looked up the 3 packages in synaptic, procps has an exclamation mark on it. Under installed version it says ...

OK, so I run the second one but it didn't work,here's the output:

groups: cannot find name for group ID 1001
antobbo@antobbo-xps17-ubuntu:~$ sudo apt-get remove --purge procps cups...

Thanks for your help fantab. So, I started from the first command, and I didn't get that far... I got some errors/warning. Here's the output:


antobbo@antobbo-xps17-ubuntu:~$ sudo dpkg --purge...

thanks fantab. Here is the output of the that command, as you asked:

antobbo@antobbo-xps17-ubuntu:~$ df -h
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda5 156G 120G 29G 81%...

Hi all, a while ago after installing some updates, I started to have problems with the package system which is now broken and I can't install any update anymore.


I run the following command in...

any idea at all?

Could it be the nvidia graphic card playing up in Ubuntu?

Hi there, I have a dell xps17 and I have recently purchased a hdmi cable. When connected it works ok in windows 7 (I have dual booting) but not in ubuntu, the tv says "No signal". I had a look around...

Thanks, I am going through the java api zip folder documentation now. I have done all you said, and now I have 2 folders as in the screenshot, is it ok? Is the position of the folders ok?
thanks

fabulous, thanks. I am downloading the API first: once downloaded do I need to extract it or place it as it is in the jdk1.6.0_37 folder?

ABout the netbean plugin, is it essential that I download...

thanks all for the suggestion.
Unfortunately I haven't mentioned the fact that I don't know anything about java, I have just started to learn it
@3246251196 would this
sudo apt-cache search jdk |...

Hi all, I have installed java on my computer as well as netbeans, but I have just noticed that I don't have the documentation, not entirely sure why. The folder - see attachment - doesn't have the...