Re: Ubuntu Gutsy good?

["laymusic" <user=1494@nabble.blu.org>]

 >>>>> "Laura" == Laura Conrad <[hidden email]> writes: 

    Laura> On Gutsy, I quite regularly find that the system is paging 
    Laura> itself to death and has become unusably slow. 

    Laura> This morning, "top" told me the memory hogging culprit was 
    Laura> "udev", if that enlightens anyone. 

I got the ubuntu users list to help me with this problem; it turns out 
to be a really easy fix -- you remove a package called evms. 

Once you know the answer, finding out more about the problem via 
google is quite easy.  It turns out that evms is a package that was 
known to be buggy and has been removed from the distribution.  The 
upgrade manager apparently knows the right thing to do about it if you 
have a system that was freshly installed on Feisty, but I had upgraded 
from at least Dapper and maybe the one before that. 

So it looks like the people who are still backing up their data and 
doing a fresh install still have a point, although current dpkg based 
distributions certainly upgrade a lot more smoothly than ancient RPM 
based distributions did. 

So now I have to decide whether my backup procedure is good enough to 
make a fresh install on the desktop safer than an upgrade. 

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Laura (mailto:[hidden email] , http://www.laymusic.org/ ) 
(617) 661-8097 fax: (501) 641-5011 
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