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Thanks smokingwheels! I hadn't found a solution, so great to hear there's something to try. I'm on the road right now but I'll try it when I get home.

So what file do I edit to add this [COLOR]...

Thanks fellas, I appreciate the advice. I'll likely do something like that down the road. But since I had the processor already, I swapped it out, and - the difference is night and day! I used to...

A Chromebook might be ok for a laptop, but my laptop's less slow and less important than my desktop. I use a full-size box at home, with optical drive, card readers, and other things. Plus it has a...

Thanks, I'll try that.

So, I checked the motherboard; it's a Gigabyte GA-G31M-ES2L, which tops out at 4GB RAM. Too bad.

But, maybe rather than the RAM, I could upgrade the processor. It currently has a Core 2 Duo, but...

Ok, I've set it to 20. If you think it should be higher, just let me know.

Ok, here's top. I have both Firefox and LOTRO running.


MiB Mem : 3906.1 total, 104.2 free, 3244.5 used, 557.4 buff/cache
MiB Swap: 3898.0 total, 3840.0 free, 58.0 used. ...

Dropping Firefox as my primary browser is kind of out because I'm very tied up with how it works and the plug-ins I use in it. I do use Chromium when I want something a bit more lightweight than...

Here it is! Yep, 4GB of swap.


MiB Mem : 3906.1 total, 652.1 free, 1582.5 used, 1671.5 buff/cache
MiB Swap: 3898.0 total, 3898.0 free, 0.0 used. 2074.5 avail Mem

Pretty sure this thing's topped out at 4GB.

Thanks, I'll check it tonight!

Oh yes, it should. That is, during the install I let it create the default partitions. I haven't checked specifically to see, but gnome-system-monitor does show a swap area.

I'm running the latest Xubuntu LTS on an old desktop from 2009 with a Core 2 Duo processor (Wolfdale, E5200@2.50GHz) and 4GB of RAM. I've overclocked it a bit, RAM's at maximum, the OS runs on an...

That worked! Thanks!

(Sorry, I accidentally overwrote my OP here. I'll recreate the broad strokes.)

I had to wipe my drive and reinstall from scratch, and now my shares aren't accessible. I installed samba and added...

That's correct: same result, no network.

I suppose a reinstall from scratch would be the way to go. Too bad; it's a pretty big hassle. I'll have to go at it this weekend I guess; image the...

I did it and rebooted, and.......nothing. I'm having a sad.

I'd be happy to try it, though I'm not sure how to go about it.

Shoot! It says "Failed to contact the server: <urlopen error unknown url type: https>" then Upload failed. I've archived it; here are the contents:


Starting the Ubuntu Forums 'system-info'...

I ran that and rebooted, but still no networking on startup. :(

Yes, it showed just that!

Created symlink /etc/systemd/system/dbus-org.freedesktop.network1.service → /lib/systemd/system/systemd-networkd.service.
Created symlink...

Shoot! It ran without returning anything, and on reboot, still no networking until I do the dhclient trick. :(

I appreciate your patience through this whole situation!

Thanks for those ideas! Sadly they didn't fix it. This issue sure is being stubborn!

Oh no, this is my desktop, not a laptop - I was just saying that if this were happening on the laptop it wouldn't be much of a problem. And no, these are both personal items. On a side note, a...

Ok, sudo apt-get install --reinstall python returned

Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Reading state information... Done
Package python is not available, but is...