[PLUG] Ubuntu 8.10 GRUB problem - only shows memtest option

2009-01-07 Thread Mandar Vaze
Hi, I installed Ubuntu 8.10 from DVD that came with LFY Dec 2008. Once I select Ubuntu from Windows bootloader, I get grub menu. Problem: It has only one option that of "Ubuntu8.10,*memtest*" Is there a way to boot directly into Ubuntu w/o memtest ? Problem is similar to this : https://answers.

Re: [PLUG] Time to downgrade?

2009-01-07 Thread म.हा.सा.ग.र
On Thu, Jan 8, 2009 at 12:52 PM, Pranav Peshwe wrote: > On Wed, Jan 7, 2009 at 7:59 PM, म.हा.सा.ग.र wrote: > >> this is an interesting post on TSC matter... and i am wondering about it >> now... >> > > Hi, >Did you try passing 'notsc' to the kernel at boot ? > I *guess* the problem might be t

Re: [PLUG] Time to downgrade?

2009-01-07 Thread Pranav Peshwe
On Wed, Jan 7, 2009 at 7:59 PM, म.हा.सा.ग.र wrote: > > >> I am also wondering if this has got anything to do with *TSC clock > >> source unstable* message that i am getting for last few days... > >> which maybe related to cmos battery? But can that battery cause a > >> problem when i am on M.S

Re: [PLUG] Time to downgrade?

2009-01-07 Thread म.हा.सा.ग.र
On Wed, Jan 7, 2009 at 7:59 PM, म.हा.सा.ग.र wrote: > On Wed, Jan 7, 2009 at 7:48 PM, Shridhar Daithankar > wrote: >>> =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= >> >> Hoping that the hang lasts for several seconds, rerun the strace, find the >> offending fd i.e. 10 in the above strace(first argument to the read

Re: [PLUG] Time to downgrade?

2009-01-07 Thread म.हा.सा.ग.र
On Wed, Jan 7, 2009 at 7:48 PM, Shridhar Daithankar wrote: >> =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= > > Hoping that the hang lasts for several seconds, rerun the strace, find the > offending fd i.e. 10 in the above strace(first argument to the read, which is > repeatedly unavailable) and see what file it is

Re: [PLUG] Time to downgrade?

2009-01-07 Thread Shridhar Daithankar
On Wednesday 07 January 2009 19:33:48 म.हा.सा.ग.र wrote: > thanks for help from all... > > Here is a part of strace... > =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- > read(10, 0x8dad2dc, 4096) = -1 EAGAIN (Resource > temporarily unavailable) > clock_gettime(CLOCK_MONOTONIC, {12003, 477594114}) = 0 > c

Re: [PLUG] Time to downgrade?

2009-01-07 Thread म.हा.सा.ग.र
On Wed, Jan 7, 2009 at 7:02 PM, Shridhar Daithankar wrote: > On Wednesday 07 January 2009 18:14:01 म.हा.सा.ग.र wrote: >> How do i find out the state of CPU? > > Mostly using top. > >> Swap memory is not getting utilized much, nor is the memory usage by kmail. >> >> CPU is getting hogged to near 10

Re: [PLUG] looking for Red Hat trainer ..

2009-01-07 Thread Vishwanath Meghanath
Sorry Dinesh!!! I am an student pursuing my course in MCA.Hope so u wil get a suitable candidate as trainer. Regards Vishwanath M -- __ Pune GNU/Linux Users Group Mailing List: (plug-mail@plug.org.in) List Information:

Re: [PLUG] Time to downgrade?

2009-01-07 Thread Shridhar Daithankar
On Wednesday 07 January 2009 18:14:01 म.हा.सा.ग.र wrote: > How do i find out the state of CPU? Mostly using top. > Swap memory is not getting utilized much, nor is the memory usage by kmail. > > CPU is getting hogged to near 100% by kmail which looks like a trouble > sign for me. Hmm.. Last try

Re: [PLUG] Time to downgrade?

2009-01-07 Thread म.हा.सा.ग.र
On Wed, Jan 7, 2009 at 3:17 PM, Arun Khan wrote: > On Wednesday 07 Jan 2009, म.हा.सा.ग.र wrote: >> Hello, >> >> i have been running kmail on MDV2009 for sometime now, and with >> Turion64 Processor & 512 M Ram. >> >> Since i started facing a problem of kmail taking lot of time to >> refresh betwee

Re: [PLUG] Time to downgrade?

2009-01-07 Thread म.हा.सा.ग.र
On Wed, Jan 7, 2009 at 3:07 PM, Shridhar Daithankar wrote: > On Wednesday 07 January 2009 13:15:10 म.हा.सा.ग.र wrote: >> > I have some large folders and past 6 years of history. kmail in kde 4.1.3 >> > works just fine. No problem there.(But I have a laptop with 2GB RAM but >> > 512MB should be suf

Re: [PLUG] Time to downgrade?

2009-01-07 Thread Vishal Rao
I wonder if this recent blog about installing and running "xrestop" might help: http://blog.kagesenshi.org/2009/01/viewing-xorg-memory-consumption-xrestop.html -- __ Pune GNU/Linux Users Group Mailing List: (plug-mail@plug.o

Re: [PLUG] Time to downgrade?

2009-01-07 Thread Arun Khan
On Wednesday 07 Jan 2009, म.हा.सा.ग.र wrote: > Hello, > > i have been running kmail on MDV2009 for sometime now, and with > Turion64 Processor & 512 M Ram. > > Since i started facing a problem of kmail taking lot of time to > refresh between mails, I started system monitor. > > It seem the CPU is a

Re: [PLUG] Time to downgrade?

2009-01-07 Thread Shridhar Daithankar
On Wednesday 07 January 2009 13:15:10 म.हा.सा.ग.र wrote: > > I have some large folders and past 6 years of history. kmail in kde 4.1.3 > > works just fine. No problem there.(But I have a laptop with 2GB RAM but > > 512MB should be sufficient any day). > > maybe memory then, because my folders are a