Subj : Dial-around Long Distance
To   : Nancy Backus
From : Barry Martin
Date : Wed Sep 04 2019 09:12:00


Hi Nancy!

 BM>> That's more or less my thoughts.  Know with the old computer (the one
 BM>> previous to the one I'm on now) just about every time I booted it gave
 BM>> an error message.  Appeared to be a minor one, essentially "Ubuntu had
 BM>> an internal error".  Every so often looked at the logs but no idea;
 BM>> nothing ever seemed to act improperly.
 NB>> So probably just a confused computer generating the message... ;)
 BM> Apparently!  The computer did something it wasn't supposed to do but
 BM> wasn't bad enough to cause a lock up or a major problem.  Or a semi-
 BM> major problem from which it recovered.  It keeps working properly
 BM> otherwise.
 NB> As long as it keeps working properly, that's the important
 NB> part... :)

Yes.  "Internal error' is rather vague.  Something went wrong someplace.
There are ways to get rid of the error pop-up but to me that's like 
covering up an idiot light on the car's dashboard.  (Ok, weird example!)
Something's not quite right but not bad enough to lock up.  Maybe took
two revolutions of the hard drive to pick up all the data.  If I see a 
problem occurring constantly (such as every time I load Firefox) I 
probably want to check that out.  The occasional geneal 'oops', probably
not bother.



 BM> ...Might even be nothing: if look at the logs one sees error messages
 BM> about stuff that doesn't exist ==> something like "error, usb no
 BM> device".  Well yeah: nothing's plugged in to that port!
 NB> Not an error, just a not found because not there... which the
 NB> computer isn't able to differentiate from not being able to
 NB> connect to something that might actually be there after all... :)

Right.  If it's there and not being detected that's a good thing to 
know!


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