Apps on Kubuntu keep crashing

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> At thsi point I am unsure how to proceed.
This is what I'd do:
erase Kubuntu and go with Xubuntu.
My opinion, only my opinion...
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keith smith writes: 

> Thank you so much for all your help!! 
> 
> Looks like I am running Ubuntu 13.10 
> 
> In reviewing dmesg I see the following:  
> 
> (I do not know what to look for so these are the things that jumped out at me) 
> 
> [    0.000000] *BAD*gran_size: 64K      chunk_size: 32M         num_reg: 10     lose cover RAM: -16M
> [    0.000000] *BAD*gran_size: 64K      chunk_size: 64M         num_reg: 10     lose cover RAM: -16M 
> 
> [    0.000000]  gran_size: 64K  chunk_size: 1G  num_reg: 10     lose cover RAM: 0G 
> 
> [    0.000000] *BAD*gran_size: 64K      chunk_size: 2G  num_reg: 10     lose cover RAM: -1G 
> 
> There is a lot of the above. 
> 
> [    0.000000] No NUMA configuration found
> [    0.000000] Faking a node at [mem 0x0000000000000000-0x000000021e5fffff] 
> 
> [    0.000000] No AGP bridge found 
> 
> [    0.133742] ACPI: No dock devices found. 
> 
> [    0.155004] acpi PNP0A08:00: Disabling ASPM (FADT indicates it is unsupported) 
> 
> - - -  
> 
> Issued command "java -version" 
> 
> This is the output: 
> 
> The program 'java' can be found in the following packages:
>  * default-jre
>  * gcj-4.6-jre-headless
>  * gcj-4.7-jre-headless
>  * openjdk-7-jre-headless
>  * openjdk-6-jre-headless
> Try: apt-get install <selected package> 
> 
> - - -  
> 
> At thsi point I am unsure how to proceed.  
> 
> Thank you so much for all your help!! 
> 
> Keith 
> 
>  
> 
> 
> On Friday, March 21, 2014 5:21 PM, Michael Butash <michael at butash.net> wrote:
>  
> Check what java you're using (java -version), might try a sun/oracle version if not using one already.  Also check what devices you have, and what dmesg says.  That sounds like hardware is flaky, and I've had that with various usb/pci devices over the years.  Video drivers too. 
> 
> Pay attention to what apps are doing at the moment when things
>       crash, like invoking video or sound.  I use 13.10 kubuntu at work,
>       and it's mostly ok to use, if not for certain annoyances as well
>       around active directory integration, but not crashing.   
> 
> I did once with a plantronics savi headset that invoked itself as
>       a usb sound device, but also as a hid device spewing something
>       xorg didn't like, took a xorg.d/.conf to ignore the events and
>       device to keep the desktop from freezing when anything hit the
>       sound device.  Sounds like yours with skype perhaps (look at
>       pulseaudio logs for this), or probing a video camera when they
>       init presence of devices.  Otherwise sounds like your java might
>       suck, or the ver of office. 
> 
> -mb 
> 
> 
> On 03/21/2014 05:11 PM, keith smith wrote: 
> 
> 
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>>I switched over to Linux on my workstation.  It is a Dell i5 w/8GB RAM.  I installed 64bit Kubuntu.   
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>>This week is the first week I have used this box exclusively.  Some adjustments taking I was previousy on Win7.   
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>>Interestingly enough I find Kubuntu to be less stable than Win7 and probably less stable than Win95. 
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>>Skype crashes or freezes and even when I kill the process I have to reboot to get Skype to launch and work. 
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>>Libre Office crashes often as well. 
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>>Last night I did an upgrade which I was hoping would help, however Libre Office has crashed 2 times today and I have had to go through the recovery process.  Skype just froze..... again 
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>>Is anyone else experiencing this level of issues?   
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>>I'm excited to be running Linux.  I like Linux much better today than in 2000 when I went M$ free for 8 months.  However I am a LAMP dev and I need what works.  I need to spend my time programming, not grooming an O/S so it works properly. 
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>>Any thoughts? 
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>>
>>Keith 
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