RowanEmslie
July 22nd, 2014, 04:56 PM
Ok, so first of all I had an issue where the whole system would completely freeze and I'd have to hard reset it all the time. I googled around a bit and found a bunch of people saying that updating the kernel is a good idea. I followed the step by step instructions and , voila, the system stopped randomly freezing.
Unfortunately, after a few weeks, an unbelievable lagginess has set in (typing this, I'm about a sentence ahead of the words on the screen actually showing up). I tried to follow the steps listed in this thread (http://askubuntu.com/questions/133181/ubuntu-12-04-x64-very-slow-response-and-sluggishness) but ran into another problem - my update manager no longer works. It tells me the package information has not been updated in 523 days (which isn't true). When I try to update it tells me I have no internet connection.
This lead me to another thread. I try to update via the terminal, as suggested, and get the following output:
W: Failed to fetch http://ppa.launchpad.net/cscarney/unity-web-place/ubuntu/dists/precise/main/source/Sources 404 Not Found
W: Failed to fetch http://ppa.launchpad.net/cscarney/unity-web-place/ubuntu/dists/precise/main/binary-i386/Packages 404 Not Found
Then it tells me there are no updates.
sudo apt-get upgrade
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
0 to upgrade, 0 to newly install, 0 to remove and 0 not to upgrade.
I feel like I need to update my graphics driver to fix the lagginess but I don't seem to be able to update anything. Please help!
Unfortunately, after a few weeks, an unbelievable lagginess has set in (typing this, I'm about a sentence ahead of the words on the screen actually showing up). I tried to follow the steps listed in this thread (http://askubuntu.com/questions/133181/ubuntu-12-04-x64-very-slow-response-and-sluggishness) but ran into another problem - my update manager no longer works. It tells me the package information has not been updated in 523 days (which isn't true). When I try to update it tells me I have no internet connection.
This lead me to another thread. I try to update via the terminal, as suggested, and get the following output:
W: Failed to fetch http://ppa.launchpad.net/cscarney/unity-web-place/ubuntu/dists/precise/main/source/Sources 404 Not Found
W: Failed to fetch http://ppa.launchpad.net/cscarney/unity-web-place/ubuntu/dists/precise/main/binary-i386/Packages 404 Not Found
Then it tells me there are no updates.
sudo apt-get upgrade
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
0 to upgrade, 0 to newly install, 0 to remove and 0 not to upgrade.
I feel like I need to update my graphics driver to fix the lagginess but I don't seem to be able to update anything. Please help!