Phill:
Thank you very much for the additional information.
If what you state is indeed the case, it definitely answers my question
as to whether a 450 megahertz machine with 512 megabytes RAM can be
considered a viable minimum system for my users.
And I think the answer is, that it *can't* be a viable minimum system.
How could I expect users to wait 90 minutes for a machine to get out of
what appears to be a hang? And (having tried it) the machine can't be
used for MIDI music while in that extended 'busy' state.
I think I will bid a fond 'farewell' to my old trusty HP-Vectra, as it
journeys to that great bit-bucket in the sky, and use my next-to-slowest
machine (a Compac P933, 933-megahertz machine with 512 megabytes RAM)
for testing as a minimum system for my software.
Such is the march of progress, for better, or for worse.
Sincerely,
Aere
On 04/04/2013 06:44 AM, Phill Whiteside wrote:
Hi Aere,
I suspect you are seeing
"Please be aware that your system may seem to 'hang' (stop) at about
90% (dpkg), it has not; it just takes a little time (up to 90
minutes). The lowest specification that we have seen working is a
Pentium 2, with 64MB of RAM using lubuntu core."
It is mentioned in the minimal install area [1], but possibly the bit
about waiting for upto 90 mins needs repeating in the alternate area.
Regards,
Phill.
1. https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Lubuntu/Documentation/MinimalInstall
On 4 April 2013 06:03, Aere Greenway <a...@dvorak-keyboards.com
<mailto:a...@dvorak-keyboards.com>> wrote:
On 04/03/2013 03:31 PM, Nio Wiklund wrote:
I suggest that you try updating with terminal window commands
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade
Nio:
I tried this on my HP-Vectra machine (both on Lubuntu 12.10, and
Ubuntu-Studio 12.04).
Unfortunately, I encounter the same (or worse) problem.
Everything seems to be going fine, and I can monitor everything.
Then it gets to the point where it says:
ldconfig deferred processing taking place
At that point, control returns to the command prompt, so I can
execute other commands.
But the processor is over 90% busy, running python as user=root.
It keeps running for longer than would normally be required for
applying updates. And watching the task manager window gives me
no clue of what it is doing.
If I run the software updater, it says my system is up-to-date.
I finally shut down my system (hoping the package database didn't
get messed-up).
The very same thing happens on Ubuntu-Studio (Xubuntu).
At least using the software-updater, I could get clues from the
task manager of what it was doing.
So, unfortunately, I still cannot reliably update Linux systems on
my HP-Vectra (450 megahertz, 512 meg RAM) machine.
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