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Lead Head:
Hey guys, I've got a computer an Athlon 64 3200+, 512MB RAM and a Radeon x800 XT. The problem is, its install of Ubuntu has been running very slow as of late, starts randomly doing "weird" things, and constantly thrashes the hard drive. Sometimes rebooting it will make it better for a while, but it will go right back to where it was quite quickly.

CPU usage is not excessive, and it barely even uses half of the available memory. I have no idea what is wrong with this thing.

davidnix71:
Dying hard drive. Maybe Ubuntu is moving things from bad sectors. Time to download the makers bootable hd utility and run it.

Otherwise you had better read this thread. http://music-electronics-forum.com/t19633/

If you actually have a secure system, it will cause trouble because Ubuntu is putting backdoors into their latest releases, including the server versions, and this causes big trouble. They are spamming users through that back door.

If you figure out how to fix that post it here, because I'm using  10.x in a VM.

Refalm:

--- Quote from: davidnix71 on 13 January 2011, 04:11 ---If you actually have a secure system, it will cause trouble because Ubuntu is putting backdoors into their latest releases, including the server versions, and this causes big trouble. They are spamming users through that back door.

--- End quote ---
The author of that forum post didn't even bother to go to the address. If he actually knew what he was doing, he would have saw that the port was 80.

http://rookery.canonical.com/

It's not a backdoor, it's a server that tells the new installation where it can find the most recent updates and certificates.

piratePenguin:
It would be a bit out of this world for Ubuntu with all it's open structure and code, to have a trojan installed and buried from those watching what goes on with the OS. Give them some credit.

But where they did cock up on was shipping a buggy Xorg in 10.10 that has a memory leak affecting some installations (or all? no idea). This was very serious for me, but once I found out about the problem and updated the software, the OS was in fine shape. That could be your problem lead.

Refalm:
Yeah I had the same problem with buggy XOrg packages that were delivered with 10.10. I just installed the beta package for a month, until the stable package got fixed.

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