Xubuntu Desktop CD needs more than 128 MB RAM to boot
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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xubuntu-meta (Baltix) |
Invalid
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Undecided
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xubuntu-meta (Ubuntu) |
Fix Released
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Wishlist
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
Binary package hint: xubuntu-live
The specs for Xubuntu Desktop CD say that it requires 128 MB RAM to boot. This seems to be incorrect.
I've booted the Xubuntu Desktop CD on an older laptop (Fujitsu E-series with 128 MB RAM). The desktop is missing all panels and is extremely slow. Command "free -m" on console shows that all memory has been used and there is 0 MB RAM left.
When I add some swap space with "swapon /dev/hda2" (which I have made into a swap partition) everything starts workin much smoother, which confirms that the issue is simply that Xubuntu Desktop CD uses more than 128 MB of RAM to run.
Unfortunately I could not install Xubuntu using Ubiquity, since the every step where hard drive partitions are scanned (startup of gparted, startup of partitioning, startup of copying files) the systems seems to automatically unmount the swap partition, thus killing the memory of all applications and thus also the Ubiquity installer halts.
Changed in xubuntu-meta: | |
importance: | Undecided → Medium |
Changed in xubuntu-meta: | |
assignee: | xubuntu-team → nobody |
Changed in xubuntu-meta (Baltix): | |
status: | New → Invalid |
i noticed the same.
Talking to casper maintainer a while ago he told he would accept a patch to allow the creation of swap devices even on fat partition.
Then .. it's true that ubiquity umount swap devices as it's suppoesed to format them too.
The gtk frontend needs mem, there is a text frontend sitting there that could be used.
It would even be nice to see how it works using libexo where possible