Thanks everyone for all the testing but after about a year working on Karmic and a few months of Lucid with the same issues I am giving up and removing Ubuntu on these machines.
Again thanks for all the help and suggestions, shadetree -- [i845g] Karmic stops responding a few minutes after log in https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/456902 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs